Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [be] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keeble ( 1980 ) had included this variable as a proxy for ‘ the restructuring hypothesis ’ , by which he meant the argument that the real reason for decentralization was that manufacturing industry was under pressure to cut costs and had changed location in a search for cheaper , ‘ green ’ labour . |
| 2 | The wonderful thing about literature is that great poetry can chime in on any thought or experience . |
| 3 | One of Thompson and Spencer 's ( 1966 ) list of ‘ criteria ’ for habituation is that habituation proceeds most readily with closely spaced trials ; but latent inhibition appears to be more profound when the pre-exposure trials are relatively widely spaced ( Lantz 1973 ; Schnur and Lubow 1976 ; but see also Crowell and Anderson 1972 ) . |
| 4 | Another defence to an action for defamation is that of fair comment . |
| 5 | However , the major difficulty for management was that of re-establishing piece-work rates on the new machinery . |
| 6 | One consequence for plot is that composition becomes equated with comic recital . |
| 7 | But the most convincing demonstration of the spread of change is that support was withdrawn from Mr Livingstone in every part of the country except London . |
| 8 | Perhaps one of the most important groups for the stimulation of change is that which falls between these two poles : those teachers who I would see as belonging to the 25 to 35 year-old age group , or perhaps those who have not been teaching for more than six , or less than three , years . |
| 9 | The second example of inspection is that carried out by local authority inspectors . |
| 10 | Among my areas of responsibility was that of the application of AI techniques to aircraft maintenance . |
| 11 | 4.3 The real difference between the two categories of damage is that past loss is certain , or largely certain , whereas future loss is , by its very nature , uncertain . |
| 12 | That , of course is that , that of course is the the problem of national curriculum it 's your interpretation of of the national curriculum and there is I mean , if Judith says a child is level three , I would accept that but if somebody from Spring Garden said this child is level five , I 'm certainly not going to accept that without evidence that I have ! |
| 13 | What is likely to happen of course is that er in the year two thousand and ten when we do need these fast reactors , we 'll be buying in French or Japanese technology as we 've done in many other areas which is all rather sad really . |
| 14 | Er in fact most of the radiation we get in fact is not from nuclear power , it 's from erm man made sourc it 's from , from natural sources eighty seven percent of the population as an average comes from our natural environment a lot comes from radon gas erm a small amount of radioactivity in our food erm we were discussing at er er lunch in , in fact the benefits of , of eating er low sodium salt salt is meant to be bad for you so the health er er er freaks say and it 's the sodium , therefore you should buy low sodium salt which is calcium chloride rather than sodium chloride what they forget to tell you of course is that potassium er sorry it 's , it 's potassium chloride rather than er than s than sodium chloride , what they forget , forget to tell you of course is that potassium is slightly radioactive it contains erm a small amount of , of a naturally occurring radioactive potassium so you get a small dose of radiation er to compensate for the fact you are n't eating any sodium . |
| 15 | Er in fact most of the radiation we get in fact is not from nuclear power , it 's from erm man made sourc it 's from , from natural sources eighty seven percent of the population as an average comes from our natural environment a lot comes from radon gas erm a small amount of radioactivity in our food erm we were discussing at er er lunch in , in fact the benefits of , of eating er low sodium salt salt is meant to be bad for you so the health er er er freaks say and it 's the sodium , therefore you should buy low sodium salt which is calcium chloride rather than sodium chloride what they forget to tell you of course is that potassium er sorry it 's , it 's potassium chloride rather than er than s than sodium chloride , what they forget , forget to tell you of course is that potassium is slightly radioactive it contains erm a small amount of , of a naturally occurring radioactive potassium so you get a small dose of radiation er to compensate for the fact you are n't eating any sodium . |
| 16 | Well , the answer to that of course is that what reduces erm male life expectancy is the very same thing that promotes their reproductive success , namely the direct and the indirect effects of testosterone . |
| 17 | Er I think there 's er one problem of course is that regional newspapers do depend on situations vacant quite a bit and the situations vacant market is n't improving dramatically . |
| 18 | The danger of course is that sponsorship for itself , in itself becomes more important than the actual regattas . |
| 19 | Mm it it may it may not be in that nature because the nature of of supply teaching work of course is that |
| 20 | Yes , the difference of course is that in two day cricket you ca n't necessarily guarantee a result er and forcing wins was what we did n't quite manage to do , it was er it was a season of what might have been for the County Cricket Club er a very good season but not quite as successful as last year . |
| 21 | And as much as none of us would like that , I feel it may be , you know , it may , it will be something that will be over very quickly , er the only worry of course is that so many people will get hurt , but if that 's the way to end it all then perhaps that 's what should be done . |
| 22 | But the danger of course is that big business takes over , the supermarket chains and the leisure chains and |
| 23 | And the other thing of course was that one movement , which took about one second , right and you would n't have a loom , one movement of this machine where the needles go up , take the yarn , knitted a hundred stitches , two hundred stitches , what whatever number of stitches were on that particular piece of fabric , the width . |
| 24 | The history of this is that for many years M O D were unhappy about expansion of the , of the port er , for commercial use and the reason they were unhappy of course was that erm commercial use was competition that they felt would be likely to drive up wages . |
| 25 | One of the most pervasive characteristics of teaching is that of classroom isolation — the separation of teachers with their classes into a series of egg-crate like compartments , isolated and insulated from one another 's work . |
| 26 | The most crucial lesson of experience is that aid , by itself , achieves nothing . |
| 27 | The reason why I run culture and ideology together to identify the institutionalization of consumerism is that consumerism in the global system can only be fully understood as a cultural-ideological practice . |
| 28 | The widely accepted ‘ ideal ’ or ‘ comprehensive ’ definition of income is that of Haig and Simons : ’ |
| 29 | The received wisdom of biochemistry is that active sites in complex enzymes are close to one another , so as to facilitate the movement of intermediate structures among the active sites , rather like a production line in a factory . |
| 30 | An additional problem with plant sources of calcium is that calcium is not well absorbed when it is present without a rich protein source . |