Example sentences of "[noun pl] be that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the signs are that radio is an exciting prospect — the forthcoming deregulation of the industry with associated changes in costs , and an expected boom in advertising revenues , is finally making the City take notice . |
| 2 | Yet the signs are that industry largely turns a blind eye to what appears to a growing problem |
| 3 | The propositions that this book addresses are that research is an important ingredient in the formation and implementation of effective policies and good practice in child care ; and that those who work in the child care services can not only incorporate research into their general experience , knowledge and skill but also contribute to it through their own careful observation and recording . |
| 4 | The thing with protest songs is that pop 's always been about the immediate , spontaneous and puerile , it has n't the patience to slog through sub-committees and lobbying and making orderly demands through the proper channels . |
| 5 | The advantage of using hybrid methods is that high-order Markov dependencies do not have to be introduced because accuracy is ensured by using the dictionary . |
| 6 | Vacuums is that vacuum |
| 7 | On their account , the thrust of the rule-following considerations is that rule-following is a practice , a custom or a way of behaving . |
| 8 | What is beyond disputes is that Battle produces the kind of seamless , creamy sound , and faultless intonation that recalls the girlish purity of Gundula Janowitz at the very height of her powers , and Perlman turns on all his customary warmth and charm from which even his relatively close positioning can not detract . |
| 9 | The real difficulty for insurers is that settlement of a claim for provisional damages is significantly more difficult than for an ordinary action . |
| 10 | The result with present 3-D pictures is that foreground objects tend to look flat — ‘ cut out of cardboard ’ is the common expression — because the viewer can not look round an object by moving his head . |
| 11 | How many calories is that Claire ? |
| 12 | Another argument for fatter bonuses is that pay tied to performance encourages managers to act in shareholders ' interests . |
| 13 | One powerful message put across by the curriculum in most schools is that knowledge can be divided into compartments . |
| 14 | One of the things I again would like to see in schools is that sort of approach , which brings out what language is really about , and I think that that 's an exciting and possibly quite unexpected outcome of bringing computers into schools , but it will require that we do n't simply think of it as being ‘ oh , let's have a micro in the science lab ’ ; it is going to be as the government seems to recognise , a step involving curriculum design , involving helping teachers _ really , really helping them in a strongly supportive way — to do something which is , I would say , revolutionary . |
| 15 | The first condition for South Africa 's return to the Olympics was that apartheid laws should be eradicated ; it looks as though that will be met . |
| 16 | What had happened over three months was that metal had leached into the system to dangerously high levels . |
| 17 | You get your wardrobe , its feet are that way on , you get each side of it , you put it on there and its bottom of the wardrobe rests on top of the ladder . |
| 18 | Alternative models are that support is protective against depression only when people have disturbing events or living circumstances and otherwise is unrelated to depression , as suggested by Brown and Harris ( Figure 4.3B ) . |
| 19 | The advantages are that manufacturing costs ( and final retail prices ) are kept down marginally , and the batteries are less likely to be affected by damp . |
| 20 | His other criticisms are that citation counts are unable to distinguish quality among methodological contributions . |
| 21 | The two limitations were that recovery will not be available : ( 1 ) where it can properly be said that the payment was made to close the transaction , and ( 2 ) where the payer was mistaken as to the proper interpretation of the statute . |
| 22 | The managers concerns were that property might prove to be an illiquid investment , particularly in a falling market . |
| 23 | One of the arguments used against a significant ROM scavenging role for the aminosalicylates is that 4-ASA , while clinically effective , is less efficient in scavenging ROM than 5-ASA . |
| 24 | One of the problems with consultation over several different language versions and many subject areas is that revision becomes slow and difficult to coordinate . |
| 25 | The good news for developing countries is that change has opened up unforeseen opportunities . |
| 26 | The first implication to draw from these models is that diversification within a national market can not eliminate the risk due to the market . |
| 27 | Another justification for having separate ‘ public order ’ offences is that group activities of this kind may , over and above the features discussed above , constitute a special threat to law enforcement and the political system . |
| 28 | If the impression created by these furious responses was that garotting ( as in other instances of street violence that we have already encountered in other historical periods ) represented a novel departure in the national character , then elsewhere the garotting panic itself was taken as a sign of temperamental instability . |
| 29 | Another difference from the ITV companies was that Channel Four would not itself make programmes but would commission them from other sources . |
| 30 | The general conclusion of these analyses was that unemployment and imprisonment were related , in the sense that , after controlling statistically for the level of crime and numbers convicted , an increase in the level of unemployment led , on average , to an increase in the numbers incarcerated . |