Example sentences of "[is] that [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is n't that one writer did something bad and somehow called punishment down upon himself ; it 's that writers in Iran , Saudi , Egypt are being persecuted by the forces of fundamentalism . |
| 2 | These convictions had become sufficiently general amongst antislavery reformers by the mid-1820s that local associations in , for example , Norwich , Beverley , Hull and Whitby all dismissed comprehensively the argument in Cobbett 's Register and Blackwood 's that labourers in Britain suffered worse material conditions than West Indian slaves . |
| 3 | For our purposes , the important point is that variants of these intermediate or compromise schemes were propounded by both Protestant and Catholic scholars . |
| 4 | The second statutory safeguard is that copies of any intercepted material must be destroyed as soon as they are no longer required . |
| 5 | The situation in Romania , as described by Baleanu and Bugnariu , is that copies of all Romanian theses are deposited with the ( single ) Central University Library , which then publishes an abstracting bulletin giving summaries of the contents . |
| 6 | The fact is that projects in Japan are profitable , both for firms and investors . |
| 7 | A consequence of this is that women with undiagnosed non-insulin dependent diabetes , which is potentially as risky for the pregnancy as insulin dependent diabetes , are lumped together with women who have abnormalities of glucose tolerance that are trivial so far as the index pregnancy is concerned . |
| 8 | To some extent , but one of the problems is that women of an earlier generation have had to claw their way through the art world in order that a younger generation of women artists today — a generation which is almost gender blind — should have an easier time . |
| 9 | So , what probably happens is that women at the bottom of the social heap in the United States , having poor health care , high stressed lives , crime , drugs and all these kind of problems , probably have more spontaneous abortions , therefore the sex ratio away from males towards females , whereas women at the top of the social scale , low stress lives , good health care , better maternity erm medicine , stuff like that , retain more foetuses , therefore you 'd expect them to have more males , and this is what seems to happen . |
| 10 | The reason , Time explained , is that women under the age of 30 picture a feminist , to quote one college senior , as ‘ someone who does n't shave her legs and is doing everything she can to deny that she is feminine ’ . |
| 11 | [ … ] One is that firms with market power will maximize their profits by charging prices in excess of marginal costs . |
| 12 | Birdland 's manager Wayne Morris told NME : ‘ All I can say is that reports of the band leaving Lazy are totally untrue . |
| 13 | A point of special interest to women is that annuities by law have now become unisex and so must provide the same rates for men and women alike . |
| 14 | The second feature of this modest success is that differences of opinion about tactics and ecology have , generally , been submerged in working towards clearly identified goals which have always been attached to a limited and defined time frame . |
| 15 | One is that differences in accounting methods between countries mean that p/es are misleading , because earnings are measured in different ways . |
| 16 | However , the upshot of his research is that differences in motor skills do exist between black and white kids . |
| 17 | The fact is that elements like cran — and bil — do not carry any meaning at all , in the normal sense — they merely distinguish ; they are equivalent to numbered or lettered labels : ‘ ( berry ) type A/type B/type C … ’ . |
| 18 | One solution to the problem is that monopoles within the Sun catalyse certain nuclear fusion reactions , but not those that produce the neutrinos detected here on Earth . |
| 19 | The advantage of the method is that records on the prime data track do not have to be moved ; a link field has to be inserted in record 111 , however . |
| 20 | The advantage to the institutions providing the money — assuming enough countries follow the UNIDO format — is that proposals from many nations all contain the same essential data . |
| 21 | The point of the new section is that acts of hooliganism may cause harassment , alarm or distress to those who witness it . |
| 22 | Laws without strong enforcement are words without deeds , and the tragic truth is that courts in both England and the United States have displayed a general unwillingness to mete out harsh punishment to those found guilty of cruelty to animals and an even greater reluctance to render guilty verdicts in the first place . |
| 23 | The second hypothesis of this paper is that patterns of regularity in the semantic net can be exploited so as to generate meaningful , linear documents . |
| 24 | A further advantage of COMMUNlTEL is that pages of information can be downloaded from Prestel and saved for further use with , for example , business studies or economics classes or the Prestel pages can be edited for school use . |
| 25 | A well-known rationale for regional policy interventions is that countries with extensive regional imbalances in economic activity appear more prone to suffer inflationary pressures , and to suffer them sooner , than more spatially balanced nations . |
| 26 | A more important point is that passages of this sort , spliced as they are with images like the lizard from the immediate foreground of Pound 's tent inside the wire-mesh cage of the prison camp , do not come into being out of the free associations of idle reverie , though in these Pisan cantos Pound exploits the illusion of that , as Joyce did in Ulysses when he pretended to transport himself and us into the mind of Leopold Bloom . |
| 27 | The principle I work on is that passages of colour are more rewarding than the dot effect . |
| 28 | A great advantage of these tests — one that was not found in ‘ real ’ tasks — is that sets of them can be made of equal difficulty . |
| 29 | What is being suggested is that dreams in themselves have no absolute meaning or import — so that the idea of analysing them in terms of standard sets of criteria becomes a nonsense — but that the reaction of the dreamer to his or her dream can be very significant . |
| 30 | The clearest manifestation of this is that institutions at all levels have to compete with one another . |