Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] is [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only good news in the act for those who sell houses is that it is not a criminal offence to omit information unless an omission results in a statement being misleading . |
| 2 | The trouble with most biographies and press releases is that they are boring — very , very boring indeed . |
| 3 | What the charter does promise patients is that they ‘ will be given a fixed appointment time and be seen within 30 minutes or be kept informed of any delay . ’ |
| 4 | What upset charities is that when it was made law here , the Department of Trade and Industry decided to make the ruling stricter and to include second-hand toys . |
| 5 | A frequent complaint from companies using distributors is that , because they are independent businesses acting independently , they can decide the final selling price to the customer . |
| 6 | The problem facing surgeons is that they do n't have the time to devote to research . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The disadvantage of DOS based programs is that each has its unique way of dealing with the word-processing process and , therefore , different commands for each must be learnt . |
| 9 | What Engels stresses is that women were not inferior . |
| 10 | Over the years , I have seen so many private gardens and advised so many gardeners on labour-saving tools and equipment , and what comes through loud and clear is that the biggest problem facing gardeners is that they are caught in the trap between growing all they would like to grow , doing all they want to do and having the lime to do it . |
| 11 | The reason for the excitement in using lasers is that they enable us to study unstable nuclei , which was not previously possible . |
| 12 | The service conception establishes that the point of having authorities is that they are better at complying with the dependent reasons . |
| 13 | The important thing to bear in mind when cutting cornices is that the veiling is represented by the horizontal table . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The problem with trying to reduce particulates is that it has a trade-off in higher nitrogen oxides ( NOx ) produced , which are frowned upon in environmental legislation in the U.S. and EC . |
| 16 | The reason it is important to share feelings is that the sharing of emotions gives an insight to the fabric and function of the filter . |
| 17 | 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% . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | THE DIFFERENCE between regular country acts and their rock 'n' roll equivalents is that your NME -friendly guitar-basher enjoys and is expected to try out new riffs , to be playful and weird . |
| 20 | The problem for many that have entered alliances is that , though the alliance can strengthen both firms against outsiders , it can also weaken one partner relative to the other . |
| 21 | Another , less direct , observation which suggests that song serves to stimulate females is that males in polygamous species of North American wren have more complex songs than have closely related monogamous species . |
| 22 | The weakness of clauses expressly undertaking obligations is that they will not prevent other , more extensive obligations being imposed unless they are inconsistent with the implied obligation . |
| 23 | One of the most often cited studies is that by E. F. Loftus and Burns ( 1982 ) in which 266 subjects watched a short film of a bank robbery . |
| 24 | The main reason our children try drugs is that they 're searching for pleasure , and the main reason they carry on is that they 've found it . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In fact , one of the main advantages of using IFAs is that they can hunt through the range of mortgage offers and find the best deal for you . |
| 27 | What is distinctive about standing rules is that they direct attention to the interest of the applicant in the outcome of the case . |
| 28 | An easy way to remember this for making calculations is that in two colours each square is one BIT . |
| 29 | First , its impulse is highly authoritarian : its only explanation for the fact that tens , probably hundreds of thousands of women choose to go swimming or do aerobics is that are suffering from ‘ false consciousness ’ : ‘ They 're all wrong , they must change , and here 's why . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |