Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [is] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A second assertion of monetarists is that in the absence of government intervention in the economy , there will be an automatic tendency towards the ‘ natural rate of unemployment ’ — that is , ‘ the level of unemployment which has the property that it is consistent with equilibrium in the structure of real wage rates ’ . |
| 2 | The simplest scheme of inheritance is that for one pair of genes , controlling one pair of traits ; the traits will then segregate in a 3:1 ratio in the second generation . |
| 3 | The relevance of Pentecost is that through the person of the Holy Spirit these propositions can acquire a personal dimension which in turn should influence our thinking and our behaviour . |
| 4 | The second source of difference is that in many network studies ( not all ) men have been found to have stronger community ties than women . |
| 5 | The first , and rather obvious , point of criticism is that by concentrating on capital-labour relations and movements of capital these authors have largely neglected other kinds of relations ( such as those of gender and race ) which have dynamics which are relatively separate from those of class but which nevertheless combine with those of class in highly complex ways . |
| 6 | An additional factor in considering the question of definition is that by far the majority of non-traditional entrants are also mature entrants . |
| 7 | The importance of diet in this group of patients is that for some diet alone will suffice , while for the rest there must be a good dietary compliance if control is to be optimal at a steady weight whether using oral agents or insulin . |
| 8 | The disquieting feature of the pronouncements of the House of Lords is that by flatly insisting upon the literal rule without expressing any qualifications , they tend to repress the use of the traditional tools by which the judges have in the past introduced rationality into the statute law . |
| 9 | The next word of warning is that in negotiations with opponents it is usually prudent not to give commitments without a package settlement . |
| 10 | Now one of the comments of Pausanias is that before a battle the Celts neither employed a Greek soothsayer nor made sacrifices according to national custom — if indeed , as Pausanias pointedly remarks ( 10.21.1 ) , there is such a thing as Celtic divination . |
| 11 | THE reality of schistosomiasis is that at least as many people are infected today as ten years ago — this despite the availability of the wonder drug praziquantel . |
| 12 | What is , however , a matter of concern is that within days of receiving and failing to reply to that letter , on 23 October 1991 , the local authority moved the children from the family friends with whom they had lived since 17 July 1991 and placed them with foster parents . |
| 13 | The final point of caution is that as the conveyancer for the buyer , you should check that any endowment mortgage arrangements are suitable . |
| 14 | A prerequisite for the effective planning of negotiations is that throughout the buying/selling process management should be aware of the factors which will affect the final form of the purchase agreement . |
| 15 | ’ ( John 12.24 ) The importance of death is that for God it is the commencement of resurrection . |
| 16 | My basic criticism of all three judgments in the Court of Appeal is that in their desire to do justice the court failed to do justice according to law . |
| 17 | The second point of note is that in places hollows in the ground were bridged on low piers , rather than filled , the more usual and cheaper method . |
| 18 | The only paragraphs in Section 2 which does allow any exemption for individuals is that concerning emigres who " although of Russian blood " had " not been in USSR since 1930 " prior to their " joining the German forces " . |
| 19 | The final point which needs to be made about ethnicity is that as a speaker variable it can not usually be isolated from social class . |
| 20 | A favoured saying amongst biologists is that for any biological question god has created an ideal organism in which to study it . |
| 21 | But what they have shown me against Brazil is that in ‘ 94 they can play the way they 're going to have to play . ’ |
| 22 | The problem with lists is that by the time you write item number three , you have completely forgotten about item number one , and so on . |
| 23 | The problem with GPS is that like all new gadgets , the companies are wanting to recover development costs as quickly as possible and they are very expensive . |
| 24 | The oddest thing about X is that like naloxone , it blocks the opiate receptor ; this is opposite from morphine and the enkephalins . |
| 25 | All you need to know about Brian is that in the Sixties one of his friends send him a postcard of planet Earth with a message saying : ‘ Wish you were here . ’ |
| 26 | What this means in practice is that through these schemes , monthly repayments are considerably reduced , which means customers save money or can afford a higher specification model if they wish . |
| 27 | The biggest difference one sees in practice is that in America permanence placement units employ workers who are specialists at working with natural families , whereas in this country , as far as I know , the units employ only specialists in adoption and fostering . |
| 28 | Moreover , a point to bear in mind is that for many users of weekly collection credit it is not just one transaction ( with a relatively small money cost , in spite of its high APR ) but is instead virtually continuous indebtedness , with one transaction following closely on the heels of another . |
| 29 | A distinction that must be borne in mind is that between the Court Baron ( which registered the transfers of copyhold lands ) and the Court Leet ( which saw to such practical matters as scouring ditches , mending hedges , muzzling dogs , etc . ) . |
| 30 | A final point that has to be borne in mind is that in order to make generalizations based on the type of quantitative analysis pioneered by Labov , a large number of tokens must be analysed ( usually thousands ) ; however , it happens that some variables that are quite salient in the community occur relatively rarely , and so we can not make reliable quantitative statements about these covering the range of speaker variables , even though they may be involved in linguistic change and may be important for historical projections on to earlier English . |