Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] that [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , the signs are that he died as a result of poisoning but this has to be confirmed . ’ |
| 2 | Signs are that it fell into disuse during the period after the Romans had left and legendary Celtic leaders , such as Arthur , were endeavouring to maintain civilised standards against waves of barbarian invaders . |
| 3 | The advantages of these methods are that they allow for careful preparation of material and can make use of the best teachers available . |
| 4 | The problem with device drivers is that they have to be installed in your CONFIG.SYS file , and it is usually helpful to have an install routine guide you through the process — lord knows , just about every other program you come across these days insists on writing to CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT . |
| 5 | Fatima : I think the main difference between the Feminist Movement in Europe and Third World Countries is that they originated on the basis of different histories . |
| 6 | My view of the exhibition and these complementary texts is that they seem for the most part to lack the critical motivation and the dialectical irony of the Situationists . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | One of the reasons for owning rather than borrowing textbooks is that they need to be marked to get the best out of them . |
| 9 | Yet one of the striking characteristics of Shakespeare 's Sonnets is that they exist on an almost universal level ; they are generalized ( with none of the depersonalization that usually goes with generalization ) ; they are widely , perhaps indefinitely applicable . |
| 10 | A problem sometimes associated with salespeople who have worked for the same company for many years is that they rely on established customers to provide repeat orders rather than actively seeking new business . |
| 11 | One advantage of base-isolated buildings is that they move as a unit . |
| 12 | The conditions were that he resides at Handley Green , Laindon , reports daily to Laindon police station and does not enter Clacton . |
| 13 | The danger with these time-removed antecedents is that they come to be regarded as irremediable causes ( which they are ) . |
| 14 | What can be said about the most recent generation of US television narrative subgenres is that they display on the screen a much higher awareness of the conventions they are operating than is the general rule on UK television , and they are therefore much more inclined towards an ironic or parodic re-scoring of generic regimes . |
| 15 | The traditional view of zebra stripes is that they act as camouflage , but even in woodland cover this is not convincing and , in any case , zebra herds spend most of their time on open grassland where the stripes can not hide them . |
| 16 | The trouble with all panspermic theories is that they look to outer space , yet we have no particular reason to believe that life could not have emerged right here on our own world . |
| 17 | The folklore in school terms is that you have to be a relatively ancient teenager to appreciate physics and chemistry and biology . |
| 18 | The folklore in school terms is that you have to be a relatively ancient teenager to appreciate physics and chemistry and biology . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Perhaps the oddest feature of evidence on spillovers is that they seem to be particularly prevalent in high R&D sectors , and this raises the question of whether they actually do undermine incentives to do R&D ( see Levin , 1988 ) . |
| 21 | What is most striking about such groupings is that they provide for careers on the football terraces . |
| 22 | The most important thing about stars is that they work for you , so simply turn to page 152 and see for yourself . |
| 23 | You might then wonder what the cutting of the hair had to do with it — well , one of the features of auto-immune diseases is that they cluster within individuals and sometimes within an individual 's family , and the reasons for that are that the immune responses that we have we inherit with our genes . |
| 24 | The only difference from the literary effusions of today 's superstars were that he wrote without benefit of a ‘ ghost ’ . |
| 25 | It is not possible to reconstruct a detailed history of Ine 's reign but the indications are that he ruled with firmness . |
| 26 | What is most worrying about these two episodes is that they smack of an orchestrated campaign on the part of the English rugby powers-that-be to create added tension between nations , for which Brian Moore is singularly well-equipped to be the aggressive mouthpiece . |
| 27 | Another major advantage of bananas over other sweet foods is that they come in their own hermetically sealed biodegradable packaging — the ideal food for when you are on the move . |
| 28 | One of Pearce 's main points is that we need to be able to apply monetary values to environmental gains and losses . |
| 29 | ‘ One of the attractions of younger men is that they appear to be less traditional than the older generation . |
| 30 | One feature of the use of both dependency ratios and population projections is that they concentrate upon expected changes in structures . |