Example sentences of "[noun] [is] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The attractiveness of the cultural explanation of religion is that it appears to account for the diversity in religious practices and beliefs without the necessity to get involved in controversy . |
| 2 | The real importance of the Christian religion is that it claims to be true irrespective of how I regard it . |
| 3 | The important thing in dealing with our self-image is that we recognise that we are different creatures with different skills and abilities , and that we have a very realistic idea of what our skills and inabilities actually are . |
| 4 | A further reason why such dichotomies as are embodied in the quantitative–qualitative distinction should not be allowed to dominate our thinking is that they tend to obscure the sheer and sometimes bewildering variety of materials that can qualify as data . |
| 5 | One flaw in the techniques of vertical thinking is that they proceed from the known into the unknown . |
| 6 | Anyone listening to or reading about the debate will know that the nub of the Government 's thinking is that they want the Bill to be passed . |
| 7 | The relevance of Christian thinking is that it puts certain limits on the market place , not on the basis that they are politically necessary to secure greater freedom in the market economy , but that they are right and desirable in themselves . |
| 8 | Their importance to the history of the Yugoslav peoples is that they kept alive the spirit and culture of a downtrodden nation during the centuries of foreign occupation . |
| 9 | ‘ It was my idea as much as Jeff 's that I went with him . ’ |
| 10 | I do n't know where Jeff is and I have no more business here now that your cousin 's disappeared as well ! ’ |
| 11 | The wood is alder and the deal is that I scaled down the body a little bit . |
| 12 | One problem with this experiment is that it presented subjects with a very artificial task and , not surprisingly , various criticisms have been made by authors such as Hupet and Le Boudec ( 1977 ) and Schultz and Kamil ( 1979 ) . |
| 13 | The reason the coding metaphor has such currency in contemporary talk about perception is that it seems to suggest a way in which very simple and apparently homogenous elements such as nerve impulses can generate the richness and variety of consciousness . |
| 14 | If the campaign has been logical to the strategists , the public perception is that it has been awful . |
| 15 | The rationale for trying to obtain verbatim records of children 's speech in naturalistic settings is that it provides the best indication of what language a child actually uses in ordinary , everyday settings . |
| 16 | However , one of this industry 's main characteristics is that it attracts the maverick . |
| 17 | One of the biggest attractions for fans is that they like to identify with the group ; they want to be part of The Club . |
| 18 | And I was in last week both Saturday 's before I came here , and we went through we 'd achieved all targets |
| 19 | The problem with this reasoning is that it comes very close to construing a clause to the extent that the plaintiffs seek to enforce it rather than as it stands . |
| 20 | Elrond 's adamant refusal to take the Ring is because he has considered its advantages but is wise enough to see that it would ruin him utterly . |
| 21 | But the radical difference between this and previous dieting methods is that it makes the food you consume more filling and also renders some of the calories it supplies non-fattening , as you will begin to learn in the next chapter . |
| 22 | The problem with such lists is that they do not specify any order . |
| 23 | Jones finished off by saying : ‘ The good thing about English football is that they do n't roll about the pitch if they are not hurt . |
| 24 | My biggest comment on football is that I do n't like Sunderland … or Gazza ( Gascoigne ) . |
| 25 | My recommendation is that we scrap them for the ten year decade of evangelism as a trial period and then think again in AD 2000 ! |
| 26 | The great skill of Japanese and German manufacturers is that they know how to make things efficiently and well , which is what we are so bad at . |
| 27 | One of the drawbacks in presenting such a wide range of analytical exercises in quick succession is that we become so overwhelmed by the options that we end up by doing nothing . |
| 28 | A fourth and perhaps the largest reason for attending to causation is that we do well to avoid the general conceptual uncertainty that must be part of an inquiry which leaves undefined any of its fundamental ideas which are open to definition . |
| 29 | It is often said that one of the problems with antiracism is that it knows what it is against , but not what it is for . |
| 30 | The first question I want to ask of contemporary antiracism is whether it does not collude in accepting that the problems of ‘ race ’ and racism are somehow peripheral to the substance of political life . |