Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [is] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The problem with children 's books increasingly is that there are armies of people who are properly concerned with , for example , the way girls were always discriminated against in the past , ’ says Allan . |
| 2 | One of the difficulties , it seems to me , that exists in schools today is that the teacher has to cope with a fairly large class , and one possible advantage of having a fair number of microcomputers |
| 3 | The important point about statistical methods however is that at least the ones mentioned above really do require only minimal arithmetical ability . |
| 4 | In fact one thing he says er which might make you doubt his motives somewhat is that the reason for giving people more than one vote is that they 're more educated , but in general there is also a rough correlation between property ownership and education and so there 's a good reason to give the property owners more than one vote , people who own a lot of property more than one vote . |
| 5 | Possibly the only use for hedgerows today is that they help to keep people and litter out of fields , rather than animals in , but if hedges and trees were uneconomic during the war , how much more so are they today ? |
| 6 | the view of the traffic planners here is that if the bike is to be seen as a realistic substitute to the car over distances of up to two km , then every point must be made accessible to it . |
| 7 | What is crucial for our concerns here is that such a ‘ mentality ’ or ideology is constructed ; it is not something imposed by the form of literacy itself as though the ‘ technology of the intellect ’ , as Goody terms it , were determinate . |
| 8 | One effect of this new competition for places locally is that the students who go to England or Scotland no longer automatically represent the elite they tended to in the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 9 | What is striking about the refusals in the two extracts above is that both are given immediately , without any pause , and both are met with following laughter . |
| 10 | The fear of governments always is that if people are not occupied playing competitive sports or watching TV they will be at it all the time . |
| 11 | Mm I mean I , I did , one thing last er a few weeks ago is that I er cos I m it 's a I do this market research it 's really boring |
| 12 | The position on Euro Cities also is that we , and unfortunately are the leading European cities that are involved in promoting good initiatives on the expertise of what exists within , be it economic development , be it equal opportunities policies , we are promoting this city and the benefit of getting those grants and having those foresight of putting officers into Brussels means that is being invited by other cities within Europe and Eastern Europe to develop links based on what our expertise is . |
| 13 | And the net result of all of these things together is that it narrowed the cost value differentials between U K and overseas holidays . |
| 14 | One of England 's big problems recently is that they have n't put opposing teams under pressure for any length of time , so all their attacking has been spasmodic . |
| 15 | The greatest fear of the opposition groups now is that the ruling parties will try to appease them and rush ahead with calling free elections before the opposition groups are properly organised . |
| 16 | One of the problems with laser techniques however is that often the first excited atomic transition — to the next available energy levels of the atom — corresponds to energies in the ultraviolet part of the spectrum , which is as yet inaccessible to lasers . |
| 17 | The great appeal of methylation as a means of shutting genes off is that it has a known mechanism for perpetuating itself during cell division and thus ensuring its own inheritance . |
| 18 | The Minister 's only defence I do not recall him using it in Committee — against the charge that he is wantonly selling public assets cheaply is that we always have recourse to the Public Accounts Committee . |
| 19 | General opinion in the markets now is that an unexpectedly high number of prime cattle could come through after it starts on 1 April . |
| 20 | Erm that in fact one of the odd points here is that when a person is convicted , that information is public , but nevertheless as the years go by and indeed er this has been recognized in for instance the rehabilitation of offenders act , it becomes private information and if someone 's looking for a job the fact that he was convicted of an offence many years ago should not be er er relevant . |
| 21 | One of the legends here is that a local authority inspector told a tenant that her furniture was too near the floor and thus rotting her carpet . |
| 22 | You mentioned erm tumours , in fact you get this as I said the same picture with , with X-rays as you get with magnetic resonance imaging , but what is different about tumours apparently is that the erm relaxation time with which the erm nuclei move erm varies erm according to whether a cell is , is cancerous or not . |
| 23 | And the good thing about choosing roses now is that you can see them in flower before you buy . |
| 24 | The first great motive for planting churches today is that we might reach the lost . |