Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [is] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | My big fear after Old Trafford is that the selectors will again follow Gooch blind . |
| 2 | What has been happening in Latin America is that the growth of education has been much faster than structural change in society , with the result that some of the potential value of education for social mobility is lost . |
| 3 | The most distressing aspect of the health situation in Latin America is that the diseases are avoidable . |
| 4 | One of the main criticisms levelled at US and European transnational corporations in Asia , Africa and Latin America is that their operations are predominantly of the export processing variety , employing low wage workers ( mainly ‘ nimblefingered ’ young women ) in monotonous and often physically debilitating labour , the products of which constitute a small proportion of the value-added of the final commodity . |
| 5 | Another problem for Democratic Russia is that it , too , is splitting . |
| 6 | The dummies in the windows wore clothes so unlike Helen 's that they might have stepped from some other culture : rainbow colours , fabrics of wondrous texture and design , skirts like puffballs or split like a dancer 's . |
| 7 | One of the difficulties about snap judgments of the later Wordsworth is that the revolutionary in him would not lie down and die . |
| 8 | What the Samaritan document adds to II Maccabees is that the Samaritans petitioned the king for the name of their temple . |
| 9 | The one useful generalisation about war in impoverished Africa is that it takes place where there are not many expensive weapons for soldiers to kill each other with , but where the conditions of organised life are so fragile that its disruption causes lots of civilians to die of famine and disease . |
| 10 | The most surprising feature of the laminated sediments of the eastern equatorial Pacific is that they are preserved at all in such widespread oxygenated deep sea environments . |
| 11 | Yes , well the economic effect on our own country , well when I say under , er Europe , er , with this proposal that er , we have to open up our markets er for the benefit of the Soviet , er because , that is going to cost er , what they 're , what they 're asking for , not only in Soviet but also across Eastern Europe is that the agricultural market , the steel , and the textile market , all the most sensitive areas , should be opened up to them , and that 's going to shed a , a great increase in unemployment er within the , within the common market . |
| 12 | The importance of the recent discovery of this document recording the conclusions of the conferences of 26–27 May is that it fills in what have hitherto been two of the most significant gaps in the whole story . |
| 13 | A further feature of an inhibitory CS is that it will reduce the ability of a separately trained excitatory CS to evoke its CR when the two stimuli are presented as a compound . |