Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [verb] [noun pl] is [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the new law , the only valid excuse for excluding children is that 80% of the flats in a development are occupied by someone aged 55 or more . |
| 2 | She might have agreed with my friend Roger Hinks — who , after his unmerited disgrace over the too energetic cleaning of the Elgin Marbles , left the British Museum to work for years for the British Council — that the compensation for having acquaintances is that we can make game of them with our friends . |
| 3 | The service conception establishes that the point of having authorities is that they are better at complying with the dependent reasons . |
| 4 | To my mind the most powerful argument for having saints is that they are such a diverse bunch that among them will be at least one person that even the most eccentric believer can identify with . |
| 5 | The most obvious definition for labouring poets is that it includes all those whose support normally depended on manual work , either their own or that of their families . |
| 6 | Further research has failed to turn up a single firm IBM Corp mainframe deal for this quarter anywhere across Europe , and the disk business is not going to save any IBM bacon either : word in leasing circles is that users are so averse to buying new disks that prices of used 3380Ks have risen by some 25% . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , one problem with using glosses is that you need to decide which terms to gloss ; some terms will have conventional meanings in the genre you are writing in , while other terms — like " synonymous " in the above quotation — will be common in non-technical discourse . |
| 8 | The big problem with using photographs is that the drawing can end up looking just like a photo , with little vitality and depth to it . |
| 9 | The big problem with using photographs is that the drawing can end up looking just like a photo , with little vitality and depth to it . |
| 10 | The reason for the excitement in using lasers is that they enable us to study unstable nuclei , which was not previously possible . |
| 11 | The advantage of fondant over royal icing for covering cakes is that it is much easier and quicker to make , is more pliable and has a softer texture that many people prefer . |