Example sentences of "[noun] be [art] [noun] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The negative heuristic of a programme is the demand that during the development of the programme the hard core is to remain unmodified and intact . |
| 2 | The key theme in this study is the suggestion that for any given sequence of changes in technology , the speed at which change takes place may influence the ultimate market structure . |
| 3 | Underlying the work is the belief that beyond all else the competitive achievement of a particular company is a product of the energies and competency of a relatively small group of very senior executives . |
| 4 | Another legacy of the French period of broadcasting is the fact that for a long time few such stations broadcast in African languages : radio services in the Ivory Coast are dominated by the French language even today . |
| 5 | Central to the pact was a declaration that in the event of armed intervention by the Yugoslav National Army ( JNA ) in either republic , both would immediately declare their full independence from Yugoslavia . |
| 6 | Another controversial aspect of the road plan was the recommendation that for half its length it should be routed through land belonging to Manuel Zelaya , a powerful Honduran sawmill owner . |
| 7 | What was worse for Scotland was the knowledge that in the test they would also be facing Eales and McCall at the line-out plus Lynagh , Horan and Campese in the backs . |
| 8 | The principal catalyst behind this act was the fact that in September the wavering Châtelherault had come to a decision as a result of Cecil 's help in arranging the escape of his son Arran from France , and finally agreed to join the Lords of the Congregation , thus ending the uneasy situation in which the Hamiltons had dithered between two opposing forces . |
| 9 | Their starting point is the observation that despite periods of sustained economic growth and increasing prosperity all social statistics indicate a growing sense of malaise and unfulfilment . |
| 10 | The reporters were also told that ‘ evidence that fusion was taking place was the fact that in addition to heat [ Fleischmann and Pons had ] detected the production of neutrons , tritium and helium — the expected by-products of fusion reactions ’ . |
| 11 | One moon was the crescent that until now had claimed sole tenancy of the night . |
| 12 | Part of the beauty of this revolution was the recognition that at the level of genes and proteins the mechanisms used by all animals are almost universal . |
| 13 | On the other side of the argument is the fact that over one-fourth of the respondent firms in the survey did not have an environmental scanning system in evidence , only 5% of the firms were using the most sophisticated environmental scanning system available ( i.e. they have an environmental scanning unit which is tied to the planning process , utilizes computer data banks , involves most countries in which they operate and integrates environmental information on a worldwide basis ) , and 51% of the respondents still reported little or no computerization being used in the process . |
| 14 | One of the beefs I have about accommodation for elderly people is the fact that by , that the purpose built , very excellent , bungalows and flats for elderly citizens are restricted to one bedroom which , to which but is by government decree to keep the cost down , but it does seem to me to be very heartless because elderly people 's children are unable to come and stay with them except to the great deal of discomfort and perhaps as society grows a little more considerate for the fact that the percentage of elderly people will get even greater as the years go on , then they should make allowance and provide them for the facilities to enable them to be visited by their children and grandchildren . |
| 15 | What has upset Brian is the knowledge that within hours of Joanna disappearing from the leisure centre car park eight days ago , he was being ‘ fingered ’ as someone who could have been responsible for kidnapping her . |
| 16 | A further criticism of ‘ displacement ’ theory is the fact that for the UK there is little evidence that ratchet increases in public spending are long lasting . |
| 17 | At its root is the premise that by more openly sharing with one another both our long-term strategies and how we operate on a day-to-day basis , we will actually be able to improve both our businesses . ’ |
| 18 | At one extreme was the suggestion that at least 40 weeks of the training period should be spent acquiring the necessary accounting skills ; at the other , that there should be no requirement to record accounting separately on the grounds that it was adequately covered within the auditing function . |
| 19 | What joins the various devices under a common heading is the fact that in all cases the discourses invoked are spoken through by a voice which has little or no inherent identity of its own but is defined as a principle of interrogative conjunction . |
| 20 | One of the most bizarre elements of the whole plutonium jigsaw is the fact that at one time the government sanctioned , at cabinet level , two private companies to own some of the material even though it had been produced by the electricity generating industry . |
| 21 | The result of this historical trend is a Parliament that for most of the time now exists to do the executive 's bidding . |
| 22 | The idea behind the comprehensive was the belief that within a school there should be an absence of privilege , there should be social cohesion and social justice . |
| 23 | Even more tragically for the vicar is the fact that for many unchurched families he is simply a cog–in the death machine ; an impersonal professional who has to mumble a few words before the curtains swish and the coffin descends to the fires below . |
| 24 | Of particular interest in this case is the fact that as part of a nutritional screen serum and red cell glutathione concentrations were measured and found to be low . |
| 25 | Social responsibility is a concept that in almost all cases enables one to reconcile one 's own views with the needs of society , but it is a complex idea and particularly so for the professional librarian . |
| 26 | But the difficulty with taking the Nun 's Priest 's Tale as a successful harmonization of instruction and entertainment is the fact that within the tale any explicit approaches to didactic seriousness are continually subverted . |
| 27 | ( The subsidiary element is the idea that since ‘ pain' is evidently not the name of a material object it must be the name of an aethereal one , a personal experience . ) |
| 28 | Certainly , no-one devising a system of government for a late twentieth-century industrial democracy would give the right to alter legislation to a group of people whose only qualification is the fact that at some time in the dim and distant past a grateful monarch rewarded the loyalty , bravery , intrigue , obsequiousness or blackmail of an ancestor with the grant of a title and the profits of plunder . |
| 29 | The only interesting thing about the film was the revelation that in one London borough some local councillors owned several of the bed and breakfast hotels where conditions were particularly dreadful . |
| 30 | The second reason for linking the British currency to the Deutschmark was the argument that by so doing Britain would benefit from being inextricably tied to ‘ sound ’ German financial policies , especially those aimed at controlling inflation . |