Example sentences of "[noun] [is] [that] there " in BNC.

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1 Another reason to be cautious of over-reliance on the mean is that there are certain important between-group differences which a simple comparison of group means can not reveal .
2 ( g ) one disadvantage with convertible loan stock is that there can be a tendency for stockholders to convert when profits and share prices are rising ( thus diluting the equity profit of existing ordinary shareholders and depriving them of the advantage of the cheaper gearing which such stock provides ) and to retain the stock when profits and share prices are falling , thus maintaining the debt burden of the company at a time when it may be least able to service it ; and
3 The key point in any discussion of Bénard convection is that there is an equilibrium solution with the fluid at rest .
4 Its principal recommendation is that there is urgent need for research on the ideas that form what many people take to be the consensus of attitudes that underlie the post-war development of the welfare state .
5 An interesting fact of large industrial organizations is that there is always a nearly unanimous clarity amongst those involved at the lower levels on who it is who is actually keeping the thing going , because in every organization somebody is .
6 ‘ The difference between the book trade and other retail trades is that there are some half million new product lines each year , ’ explains Mr Barker , ‘ and many of those only have a shelf life of six months .
7 ‘ The problem with AIDS is that there is complete immuno-suppression .
8 The result is that there is n't really a model which describes filmmaking in its full complexity .
9 The result is that there are books on many library shelves which have at one time been declared obscene or indecent and may be so categorized again .
10 The result is that there is a danger of familiarity with our topic of study .
11 The net result is that there is no more reason to believe that our brains are like a cat 's than there is to believe that they are like a rat 's .
12 The result is that there is a tendency to assume that corporate management are adequately controlled by the shareholders in all companies , including the large public company .
13 The result is that there is an apparent openness in the class structure , with very diverse backgrounds for people in middle-class jobs .
14 The result is that there is no coherent and sustained statement of the classical Greek or Athenian case for democracy ; while the case against it has almost monopolized the attention of posterity .
15 The result is that there is no increase in provision of the good when there is a cut in taxes , even though when the lump-sum grant applies there was an increase in provision .
16 My reply is that there are many on the dole who do not share this view and who would far rather have a job .
17 Speed , consistency , and the ability to answer questions as they arise are the three great benefits of such a system One of the difficulties which personnel managers encounter whenever they get involved in computerisation is that there are apparently so many options available .
18 I think one of the problems with any new department is that there are new staff from other ministries and there must be something of a learning curve for them and probably some propensity to control their various parishioners .
19 A further source of uncertainty is that there is no single set of terms in use among researchers and census-takers for the different ethnic groups .
20 One of the advantages of an electronic instrument is that there is considerable flexibility for its positioning .
21 The central hypothesis of the research is that there was a shift in respectable middle class public opinion from the orthodoxy of emancipation in the 1830s to the legitimation of new forms of racism by the 1860s .
22 And finally I can just look at erm draft planning policy guidance thirteen , it is very easy to lift one or two sentences out of either the draft planning policy note , or indeed the Ecotech report which underpins it , erm , I think if a full reading is made of that , what comes across strongly in the research is that there is a very complex relationship between urban forms and transport patterns , and indeed erm I think the advice in P P G , er draft P P G thirteen is prefaced with a note that erm , transport issues are , will be erm , there are very few general principles , if any , and local er considerations will influence the er the importance of this iss issue very considerably , what I think draft P P G thirteen does invite us to do is to more overtly look the transportation implications of alternative settlement patterns , and that 's all .
23 The problem with all these apparently objective methods of assessing ideal weight is that there is such a wide range of acceptable weights for any given height .
24 One point clearly illustrated in this chapter is that there is no overall strategy for the provision , co-ordination and funding of advice services .
25 The real tragedy is that there is an alternative which , unlike the poll tax or any property tax , has been tried and tested in many countries in Europe and in America .
26 The implication in their study is that there must be , for any fragment of conversational discourse , a single proposition ( expressed as a phrase or sentence ) which represents the discourse topic of the whole of the fragment .
27 However , the sine qua non of any qualification to the rule is that there be no restoration of capitalism or capitalists : the state 's economic power must be overwhelming compared with that of any individual or any foreseeable combination of them .
28 The short-term view within the meat industry is that there is no chance of prices falling until cattle are freely available off grass , which will not be until August-September .
29 The government 's fear is that there may be many more Welkoms waiting to happen , and if racial conflict does spread in South Africa , it could seriously unsettle a delicate process of change which is underway .
30 A third reason for the accelerating rate of advance in neuroscience is that there are simply larger numbers of better funded people engaged in research in this field today than ever before .
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