Example sentences of "[adj] [be] that [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what was clear is that editors , believing that the play was about the intrinsically moral Brutus , could not accept a feigning Brutus and so explained away , or repressed , the scene where that role playing is most formally represented . |
| 2 | What is becoming increasingly clear is that parents need practical support ( adequate housing , income , employment , educational , health and social welfare services ) , psychological and emotional support ( interpersonal within the family and the community ) and a network of supportive services . |
| 3 | The Trust is now examining the whole concept of trees as windbreaks ; what is clear is that trees and shrubs should filter the wind and provide shelter without creating a solid barrier and that mixed planting , wider belts and regular thinning will be essential in achieving this . |
| 4 | However historically authentic ( or not ) this account may be , what is clear is that Hungarians adhered to it for a thousand years after their arrival in the Danubian plain at the beginning of the tenth century . |
| 5 | What is strange about this is that phonemes are no more than elements of meaning but kinship terms also represent real relationships lived by people . |
| 6 | The upshot of all this is that families encourage young women to get as much education as possible — men can make a reasonable living without it , but women can not — and women are more advanced in the shift away from Gullah . |
| 7 | The result of this is that males have no idea as to whether or not they are the father of the offspring they raise . |
| 8 | The alternative vision is the one that I subscribe to , and along with me , most historians in this country and in America , and indeed increasingly erm a young generation of German historians , and this is that things began to go wrong well before nineteen fourteen , and that the Germans in fact deliberately started the First World War as the Treaty of Versailles said they did , that nineteen eighteen was not therefore the beginning of the evil , but merely a hiccup in erm a German attempt to conquer Europe , erm as it were , a play with two acts , the first act being nineteen fourteen to eighteen , and then the second act being nineteen thirty-nine to forty-five , two attempts to dominate the continent of Europe by military force . |
| 9 | The reason for this is that women are forced to carry on the main productive activity by themselves because of their subjection . |
| 10 | One reason for this is that women ( and men , of course ) are often faced with the problem of negotiating contradictory or conflicting conceptions of themselves . |
| 11 | A consequence of this is that women with undiagnosed non-insulin dependent diabetes , which is potentially as risky for the pregnancy as insulin dependent diabetes , are lumped together with women who have abnormalities of glucose tolerance that are trivial so far as the index pregnancy is concerned . |
| 12 | The consequence of this is that women are feared because they are seen to be sexually aggressive , and relations with men are spoiled because a close tie to them , which might otherwise constitute a conflict-free alternative nevertheless connotes a parallel threat of passive dependency . |
| 13 | that the only kind of learning worth seriously measuring is that which can be evaluated by making a mark on a card for subsequent ingestion by a machine ( An awful corollary to this is that judgments made by human beings must be given less weight than electronically certified facts . ) |
| 14 | The reason for this is that students are not a homogeneous category . |
| 15 | This is that students are expected to respond in a subjective and emotional way to texts ; yet they must also accept the ‘ objective ’ judgement of the canon . |
| 16 | The shorthand way of putting this is that students must have the freedom-the academic freedom — to exercise due responsibility for their own learning . |
| 17 | Another way of putting this is that students ' academic freedoms should be reflected in the internal culture of institutions of higher education . |
| 18 | The principle we can distil from this is that thoughts precede actions . |
| 19 | The reason for this is that ramparts are normally of dump construction , consisting of spoil from the ditches cast inwards to form the bank . |
| 20 | The reason for this is that movables can be transferred by delivery free of 1% stamp duty . |
| 21 | The underlying reason for this is that statutes do not really have ‘ corners ’ in the neat way postulated by theory . |
| 22 | The clearest manifestation of this is that institutions at all levels have to compete with one another . |
| 23 | The upshot of all this is that takeovers involve a significant degree of risk for offerors . |
| 24 | Among the reasons for this is that girls seem to volunteer more readily for singing and the recruitment of boys is not given priority . |
| 25 | The implication of this is that dividends do not carry significant new information , merely a confirmation of present conditions which are already known from other sources of information . |
| 26 | Another way to put this is that men , the more powerful gender group , impose their own definition on the masculine/feminine opposition . |
| 27 | One problem with this is that comparisons have a tendency to set up one group covertly as the norm ; in the case of sex , it is men who are the norm . |
| 28 | The reason for this is that Goblins , with their leadership of only 5 , are very fragile , which means they are virtually certain to fail any break or psychology test they have to take . |
| 29 | An added reason why the bond market is about to become more lively is that banks will soon be allowed to set up securities subsidiaries and underwrite corporate issues . |
| 30 | Another is that earnings yields do not necessarily measure investors ' claim on a firm 's cash flow . |