Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The important thing about notes is that you understand them . |
| 2 | The good thing about cruises is that you always have the ship 's staff to help you if you have a problem and there are always guided tours laid on at every port of call . |
| 3 | He says the two main benefits for shareholders are that the perks are a ‘ bit of fun ’ that it ‘ enables them to relate more to the company . ’ |
| 4 | Bad news for shareholders is that the dividend for the year is being halved to 5.25p per share . |
| 5 | The major frustration for prisoners is that these courses are so much in demand . |
| 6 | One of the biggest attractions for fans is that they like to identify with the group ; they want to be part of The Club . |
| 7 | The problem for strategists is that Microsoft is being somewhat vague about is own positioning of NT in the marketplace . |
| 8 | The best news for schools is that a special price is available making it possible for schools to acquire the discs , a laser vision player and an Acorn Archimedes computer for £899 . |
| 9 | One of the basic factors we have to bear in mind about fungi is that , unlike insects , which make their attack at certain predictable times depending on their life cycles , fungal attack in one form or another is about and ready to take advantage of any weakness for much longer periods — in fact , at almost any time of the year . |
| 10 | The big snag for listeners is that the equipment for receiving the surround-sound is not yet on sale . |
| 11 | The other unfortunate thing about lifts is that they are always breaking down , and if you are in your seventies , prone to arthritis and live on the seventeenth floor , it means that you are frequently housebound . |
| 12 | The only good news for drivers was that there will be no snow . |
| 13 | the sad news for golfers is that you 've a better chance of watching the sport than playing it at the Oxfordshire club … membership is being limited to 750 and the joining fee is twenty five thousand pounds … |
| 14 | The overriding priority for parents is that their children should enjoy coming to school . |
| 15 | The added advantage for parents is that they can listen to audio tapes in the car on their way to work or as a background while they are busy doing other things around the house . |
| 16 | I sha n't force you to but erm it 's an important document and the biggest problem about wills is that when anybody gets to look at it you 're not around to say what you meant . |
| 17 | The only danger for Aga-sagas is that the market will become saturated . |
| 18 | An embarrassing historical fact for falsificationists is that if their methodology had been strictly adhered to by scientists then those theories generally regarded as being among the best examples of scientific theories would never have been developed because they would have been rejected in their infancy . |
| 19 | Reverting from Mr Jingle to Oliver Michaels , he added , ‘ Six months have proved to me that the passions of Lions are as nothing compared with those of Lionisers . ’ |
| 20 | The problem with a lot of acts is that they do n't realize their limitations . |
| 21 | As Lord Keith said in Lonrho Plc. v. Secretary of State for Trade and Industry [ 1989 ] 1 W.L.R. 525 , 539 : ‘ The only significance of the absence of reasons is that if all other known facts and circumstances appear to point overwhelmingly in favour of a different decision , the decision-maker , who has given no reasons can not complain if the court draws the inference that he had no rational reason for his decision . ’ |
| 22 | The composition of the Cytherean atmosphere in terms of relative numbers of molecules is as follows : 96% CO 2 ; 3.5% N 2 ; 0.015% SO 2 ; about 0.01% H 2 O in the lower atmosphere ; 0.007% Ar ; plus traces of several other gases . |
| 23 | The plan of operations is as follows . |
| 24 | An interesting comparison between the two periods of operations was that in the Bennett era , only one aircraft failed to make the crossing . |
| 25 | Yet the whole point of crossbenchers is that their values are unpigeonholeable . |
| 26 | Final results for 498 seats in the Chamber of Deputies were as follows : PMDB 109 ( pre-election 130 ) ; PFL 92 ( 90 ) ; PDT 41 ( 31 ) ; PRN 41 ( 31 ) ; PDS 40 ( 32 ) ; Social Democratic Party of Brazil ( PSDB ) 37 ( 60 ) ; PT 34 ( 17 ) ; PTB 33 ( 28 ) ; Partido Democrata Cristao ( PDC ) 21 ( 15 ) ; Liberal Party ( PL ) 15 ( 13 ) ; Brazilian Socialist Party ( PSB ) 12 ( 8 ) ; Communist Party of Brazil ( PC do B ) five ( six ) ; Social Reform Party ( PRS ) 4 ( 7 ) ; Brazilian Communist Party ( PCB ) 3 ( 3 ) ; others 11 ( identified by acronyms as PSC 5 , PTR 2 , PST 2 , PMN 1 , PDS 1 ) . |
| 27 | The full list of courts is as follows : Barnet Marylebone Bloomsbury Mayor & City of London Bow Shoreditch Brentford Wandsworth Clerkenwell West London Edmonton Westminster Lambeth Willesden The Lord Chancellor has power to redesignate insolvency districts under s 374(1) . |
| 28 | THE CONSERVATION of birds is but part of the whole subject of wildlife conservation . |
| 29 | I 'm also an alternative therapist and I do find that this is one of the major problems , that ninety percent of my patients who come to me suffer from stress and depression , and really what has happened in a lot of cases is that they have been put on valium and drugs , they find the side effects are horrific ! |
| 30 | The most important factors in the behaviour of groups are as indicated in Figure 27.1 below . |