Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] is [that] " 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 | Bad news for shareholders is that the dividend for the year is being halved to 5.25p per share . |
| 4 | The major frustration for prisoners is that these courses are so much in demand . |
| 5 | One of the biggest attractions for fans is that they like to identify with the group ; they want to be part of The Club . |
| 6 | The problem for strategists is that Microsoft is being somewhat vague about is own positioning of NT in the marketplace . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The big snag for listeners is that the equipment for receiving the surround-sound is not yet on sale . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 … |
| 12 | The overriding priority for parents is that their children should enjoy coming to school . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The only danger for Aga-sagas is that the market will become saturated . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The problem with a lot of acts is that they do n't realize their limitations . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | Yet the whole point of crossbenchers is that their values are unpigeonholeable . |
| 20 | 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 ! |
| 21 | Much more cost effective is n't it if things to be done once rather than have to do reading them two or three times and generally the reason that things are repeated a number of times is that perhaps people are not really quite sure or not that that are systems , yet productivity the better trained people are people who can do things , get it right the first time and they can do more work ca n't they than somebody else you are not having to pick it up as the manager responsible and put mistakes right . |
| 22 | Long-run stability of V. The main claim of monetarists is that the velocity of circulation ( V ) is relatively stable over the longer run , and any changes that do occur are the predictable outcome of institutional changes , such as the increased availability and use of credit cards . |
| 23 | Probably the most important assertion of monetarists is that the velocity of circulation of money , although not constant , is predictable , independent of the money supply and stably related to a limited number of variables . |
| 24 | A second assertion of monetarists is that in the absence of government intervention in the economy , there will be an automatic tendency towards the ‘ natural rate of unemployment ’ — that is , ‘ the level of unemployment which has the property that it is consistent with equilibrium in the structure of real wage rates ’ . |
| 25 | Indeed the whole point of Smith 's contention in his 1776 treatise The Wealth of Nations is that if individuals pursue their own self-interests then , as it were , an invisible hand will guide all their separate strivings and competition and lead them into the greater good for society as a whole . |
| 26 | Perhaps the best that can be said of Mr Karimov 's treatment of dissidents is that it has been consistent . |
| 27 | The second major characteristic of words is that they are typically the largest units which resist ‘ interruption ’ by the insertion of new material between their constituent parts . |
| 28 | The importance of computers is that these arbitrage opportunities can be quickly spotted and capitalised upon . |
| 29 | My only reservation with his classification of roles is that it reflects a Western preoccupation with task behaviours . |
| 30 | Linked with this periodic replacement and expansion of fixed capital will be the proposition that the direct cause of the outbreak of crises is that the sale of means of consumption falls relative to the volume of their production . |