Example sentences of "[noun] is that [pron] [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The real importance of the Christian religion is that it claims to be true irrespective of how I regard it .
2 Mildew is not so very difficult to stop in the early stages , and there are several fungicides that will give it a severe check — all the chemical manufacturers have their own products and trade names which , like everything else , are constantly being improved and changed — but by far the most important point to bear in mind is that it has to be hit early and repeatedly .
3 The difficulty with all policy-oriented research is that it begins by defining ‘ problems ’ and then by investigation helps to create that which lt wishes to observe' This type of research helps to create a cognitive revolution in its subjects and thus produces its expected findings .
4 Our dilemma is that it speaks of a level of separation from the world , the flesh and human reality which has already proved far too harmful to the churches in general and for women in particular for us to consider returning to it .
5 An alternative is that it consists of a few per cent silicates , all the rest being iron-rich compounds such as FeS and FeO , which have densities between those of metallic iron and silicates .
6 The advantage to the offeror over a share offer with a cash alternative is that it knows in advance that it will only have to make available fixed pools of each type of consideration .
7 The overall direction of small talk is that it starts in the general and becomes more specific .
8 But what remains important about Barthes 's substantive work is that he points to cultural phenomena in the everyday realm that are ( or were ) regarded as insignificant — they are , he reveals , laden with meaning and social and political significance .
9 Obese people tend to have higher levels of insulin than those of normal weight , and the disadvantage of insulin is that it tends to further encourage the body to deposit rather than burn up fat .
10 A feature of project management is that it interacts with the company functions managed on the minimum variety basis referred to under ‘ functional management ’ .
11 The only real conclusion that we can draw from such an exercise is that there appears to be no simple relationship between population and the wealth of a nation-state .
12 Moscovitch therefore suggested that the reason why the right hemisphere shows so little language ability under normal circumstances is that it suffers from inhibitory control by the left hemisphere .
13 Another point that might be made about the relationship between the ‘ form-words ’ of grammar and the ‘ full words ’ of lexis is that it follows from the kind of auxiliary , context-complementary function of grammar being proposed here that the proportional occurrence of these words will vary in different kinds of discourse .
14 The upshot is that it looks as if major and fundamental matters are at stake about the very nature of sociology itself and that , accordingly , a choice has to be made , and made soon .
15 The only sign of his accident is that he walks with a slight limp .
16 Mike Johnson , Trafalgar House 's Open Learning Manager , said ‘ The benefit of EBC is that it builds into a permanent resource library that can be continually used and referred to ’ .
17 The danger of this opinion is that it tends towards Manichaeanism , the heresy which says that Good and Evil are equal and opposite and the universe is a battlefield ; however the Inklings may have had a certain tolerance for that ( see C. S. Lewis 's Mere Christianity , Book 2 , section 2 ) .
18 The s the point I would make is that first of all I do n't accept that twelve thousand seven hundred is er a tenable figure but that , probably the more important point is that there has to be a policy response , and a policy response to this issue demands that there is at least some response to the mi to the level of migration er you know my my my view has been put forward very clearly about that , but I would simply make make the point for the record that even accepting one hundred percent migration , there is no statistical case for a new settlement .
19 The major problem with the QWERTY keyboard is that it needs to be learnt .
20 Apart from the obvious point that it fails to produce uniformity its principal defect is that it leads to the application of a particular national law which is likely to have been devised for domestic transactions and may well be ill-suited to those which are international in character .
21 The danger in utilizing a theory of ‘ mind ’ to solve the problem of grounding the sociology of knowledge is that it depends on concepts that relate to individual and inaccessible behaviour — ‘ thought ’ , ‘ consciousness ’ , etc .
22 The good news is that it works for all ages .
23 The good news is that he charges in 15-minute slots of £5.86 , so you do n't have to pay for a whole hour if he 's only worked five minutes of it .
24 Yeah , but the , the claim is that anyone needs to be licensed by the C commanding trigger which is no one and the point is that erm anyone will then not be C commanded by no one , because no one is too far down the tree .
25 Most would agree that the professed raison d'être of the CpSU is the creation of a society ‘ of a new type ’ ; the basis of its claim to infallibility is that it stands in the vanguard of this process .
26 But the problem with taking such an a priori stance is that it clashes with the nature of Christianity .
27 One thing about the strategy is that it seems to me the ultimate goal is perhaps to get rid of the warlords
28 One feature of the genetic decoding mechanism is that it appears to be irreversible .
29 The central charges as items is that it refers to the charges from my own department , legal department , all the other central departments and an input to er the Strategic Planning Committee operating , but it 's not items that the Strategic Planning Committee has a control over , so there 's a change , an estimated change of cost and sometimes that reflects the changes in methodology of agricultural cost and that seems to be happening at the moment .
30 My only complaint is that there seems to be no way of selecting a between a horizontal or vertical tiling split .
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