Example sentences of "[noun] is that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An immediate and obvious problem with pluralists ' methods is that in the effort to achieve falsifiability , only major visible issues reaching decisional status are used , yet of course it is possible for pre-decisional power to be used to keep grievances from becoming observable issues . |
| 2 | The problem with lists is that by the time you write item number three , you have completely forgotten about item number one , and so on . |
| 3 | ‘ I would remind you , Headmaster , that small as our boarding section is , the Ministry recommendation is that for any establishment of twenty boarders or more , a qualified matron be employed . |
| 4 | The reason for the hair loss is that during pregnancy hormone levels are higher and keep the hair in its growing phase for much longer . |
| 5 | A case of the contrast which may be helpful as a mnemonic is that between a symphonic overture ( ascriptive ) which is symphonic in and by itself , and an operatic overture ( associative ) which does not have the usual characteristics of opera ( not only is it purely orchestral , it is often played with the curtain not yet risen ) but which is , nonetheless , designated by a phrase where the property OPERATIC is associated with OVERTURE in order to describe sufficiently what the speaker wishes to identify . |
| 6 | The result is that to be effective the documentation of machine-readable files has to be compiled in parallel with their creation rather than in serial . |
| 7 | A result is that despite the reduced power — 73bhp against 108 — the car gets along briskly enough without feeling quite so strained . |
| 8 | I 'm dealing with two estates where no will has been made and the house was in the name of husband alone who died without a will and the net result is that on on law on intestacy neither of the those surviving widows is of right entitled to the house and in both cases there are children and as you can imagine there is a certain amount of anguish about it . |
| 9 | The result is that for sending in the report to criticize the employee 's punished . |
| 10 | The result is that for the first time this season those of us whose attachment to the Welsh All Blacks can not be broken can start to look ahead with optimism . |
| 11 | The result is that after a period of free movement the material begins to harden and if one goes on deforming it it will become brittle . |
| 12 | The immediate result is that alongside a few major clerics such as Runcie and Jenkins , we find that Stalker , Sampson , Anderton , Alderson , Newman , Imbert , Dear , Oxford , and Hermon are national personalities , while a second division of chief officers regularly proclaim on a range of subjects which at other times would lie outside the province of the police . |
| 13 | The result is that in 1981 the cores and rings together accounted for nearly 9 out of 10 of the British population . |
| 14 | The result is that in large American industry , ‘ egos ’ and ‘ politics ’ frequently get in the way and often are the rate-limiting steps to innovation and growth of new business opportunities . |
| 15 | The result is that in perhaps , too stark contrast to the approaches above , they entirely ignore the interests and power of commercial institutions . |
| 16 | The logical result is that in a month of war more high explosive has been dropped on Iraq than was used in the whole of world war two . |
| 17 | Is the Minister aware that part of the result is that in my constituency today 14 classrooms have been closed in Bassaleg school ? |
| 18 | The end result is that in some cases , different authors having identical initials have been found . |
| 19 | The important result is that in an uncertain world companies like to maintain a stable payout ratio over the long run . |
| 20 | The end result is that in some cases , different authors having identical initials have been found . |
| 21 | So the result is that in mammals there are , I think I 'm right in saying , no sex reversed species whatsoever , in fact I 'm sure there are n't . |
| 22 | What good is that to the poor soul who is supposed to take the lead in science teaching , when there are seven colleagues requiring help , two or three with neither 0- nor A-level in science , and none with post-initial training of any substance ? |
| 23 | The irony is that outside the church is a tramp . |
| 24 | The irony is that despite the scandal surrounding some of his cabinet , it is the prime minister who has in fact begun to reform the system with the support of President Scalfaro after voters abandoned the traditional parties in droves in elections last April . |
| 25 | The irony is that within five years , investigations started with a view to relaying part of the canal route to Kilmacolm as far as Paisley for a new passenger service ! |
| 26 | The irony is that in all of the experiments on test-tube fusion that began in 1989 following the March announcements , and which variously claimed fusion evidence from heat or from radiant neutrons , no measurable production of helium ever took place . |
| 27 | The irony is that in recent times , Parliament as a whole has demonstrated its interest in accountability as a constitutional principle . |
| 28 | The irony is that in striving to perpetuate a certain mythology about his own prescience and consistency , about France 's fundamental unity , and about the mediocrity of the times in comparison with the exalted hours of the war and the liberation , de Gaulle actually masked one of the great achievements , perhaps the greatest achievement , of his political career . |
| 29 | ‘ Judith is also in show biz so the irony is that after years of getting home at three in the morning we 'll get the kids to bed and then be in bed early on . |
| 30 | Moreover , a point to bear in mind is that for many users of weekly collection credit it is not just one transaction ( with a relatively small money cost , in spite of its high APR ) but is instead virtually continuous indebtedness , with one transaction following closely on the heels of another . |