Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] is [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The extraordinary thing about the tenor of the right hon. Gentleman 's speech in the past few minutes is that once again he seeks to make out that this is not a very important problem and that we can push it away . |
| 2 | As to economic support , one noticeable difference in the circumstances within the former Soviet Union over the past few weeks is that the price of a liberalisation programme has been put in place . |
| 3 | The thinking in some quarters is that Intel Corp 's Pentium , if and when it does finally arrive , will be priced at $795 for the 60MHz species and $995 for the 66MHz . |
| 4 | Thinking in some quarters is that Intel Corp 's Pentium , if and when it does arrive , will be priced at $795 for the 60MHz species and $995 for the 66MHz . |
| 5 | The reason there have been few accidents is that the road is so dangerous pedestrians avoid it and both Scorton residents and the many visitors to the area are denied pedestrian access to the village . |
| 6 | The great advantage of such institutions is that they fit you for prison conditions . |
| 7 | The benefit of creating such groups is that it breaks down the multifarious functions of a branch committee into discreet areas , to which special attention can be given . |
| 8 | A standard objection to such views is that these general principles often clash one with one another as necessary truths could not . |
| 9 | One of the good things about such clubs is that they offer a range of courses , so that , having mastered the basics , you can progress to a more advanced level . |
| 10 | The belief underlying such proposals is that many older people are only referred for treatment at a late stage of dependency when treatment is less effective and more expensive . |
| 11 | The reason why I have detained readers of New Scientist with such minutiae is that the ‘ Mink on Shetland ’ presents us with a case study of the way in which decisions affecting the wildlife of Britain are being left to the ephemeral whims of local personages . |
| 12 | A feature of such organizations is that the means are all-important and the ends are of relatively secondary importance . |
| 13 | The problem with such lists is that they do not specify any order . |
| 14 | Although one object of having such ministries is that they can deal with problems in a manner specially suited to conditions in Scotland and Wales , the fact that the ministers belong to the UK Cabinet and are responsible to the UK Parliament means that there is considerable pressure for uniformity . |
| 15 | The great problem however with such books is that their information dates very quickly . |
| 16 | The beauty of such methods is that they can never be proved wrong since , by ignoring what the people concerned themselves think , you have removed any empirical basis for testing the interpretations . |
| 17 | The job of our full-time fund raisers is to see that the RNLI 's use of such methods is as professional as can be . ’ |
| 18 | As we discuss in Chapter 6 , a better way to envisage such imperatives is as latent : waiting , as it were , to be activated by the social and political relations and contexts in which people are living . |
| 19 | The beauty of such gardens is that they are not dependent on scale for their success . |
| 20 | Expertise in such matters is as likely to be found in schools as in the LEA ; but in any event good practice is defined and achieved dialectically and empirically , not by decree . |
| 21 | The argument for saying that there should be liability in such circumstances is that a constable does not cease to have certain general duties because he happens to be ‘ off duty ’ for the time being . |
| 22 | The underlying principle of such models is that companies that have a financial profile similar to previous failures are themselves at risk . |
| 23 | Pending discovery and/or the administration of interrogatories the best particulars the plaintiff is able to give of such transactions is that the third to fifth defendants were knowingly concerned in each and every transaction of which the following payments and each of them represent the proceeds of such transactions namely : … |
| 24 | The great advantage of such trials is that they resolve uncertainty so that an effective measure is more likely to be adopted and an ineffective one more likely to be abandoned . |
| 25 | Another advantage of such places is that they often have someone on hand to keep an eye on the exhibitions . |
| 26 | An important feature of such costs is that they tend to increase rather than decrease with sales volume . |
| 27 | The value of such catalogs is that they prevent too parochial a view of the scientific effort . |
| 28 | One good reason for such priorities is that waste usually poses a smaller threat to health than air or water pollution . |
| 29 | This is consistent with the idea that the importance of such memories is that they provide and anchoring point between personal and public life ( Neisser , 1982 ) or a coherent autobiographical history for the individual ( Conway , 1990 ) . |
| 30 | One of the crucial issues in such studies is whether the time-lag allowed is the right one and had Walters allowed twenty instead of ten years , she might have reached different conclusions . |