Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] [is] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the problems for those entrepreneurs , and other corporate managers , who do seek to act as professional industrialists is that the context in which they operate is dominated by the values described in earlier chapters . |
| 2 | Part of the fantasy about adolescent heroes is that they are in perfect command of their situation and can control the events and people around them . |
| 3 | The great thing about differential equations is that they produce nice smoothly continuous change in the quantities they describe . |
| 4 | What moves me very deeply about primitive peoples is that they still attach an enormous importance to a certain kind of communication which we have lost ; and that is that they allow the being of the person they are with to communicate with more than words . |
| 5 | The relevance of this analysis for out present purposes is that if contextual cues are helpful in retrieving associative information quite generally , then both of the associations formed during conditioned suppression training can be expected to suffer a loss when the context is changed . |
| 6 | An important feature of Tit for Tat-like strategies is that they are forgiving . |
| 7 | What is most striking about such groupings is that they provide for careers on the football terraces . |
| 8 | Indeed , he does not seem to be aware that it exists : ‘ All Darwinism has to say about such miracles is that they are due to chance . ’ |
| 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 basic plan for joint honours is that both subjects are taken in the first and second years ; then , in the third and fourth years selected parts of the honours courses in mathematics and the other subject are taken . |
| 11 | ‘ What this means for Liberal Democrats is that we must be much less exclusive in our approach to politics and much more inclusive to others in this one . |
| 12 | One good reason for such priorities is that waste usually poses a smaller threat to health than air or water pollution . |
| 13 | One of the drawbacks of alluvial sources is that under the pressure of a growing demand they tend to be depleted to a point at which more intensive methods are called for . |
| 14 | After all , mass-produced will always be mass-produced , but the whole point of mass-produced electrics is that you can walk into a store , pick the very best example from a row of several , spend a little money on a great setup , and maybe some pickups , and still save enough over a custom guitar to buy yourself an extremely nice amplifier . |
| 15 | One advantage of complete mixes is that these problems have been corrected by nutritionists who work for the compound feed manufacturers . |
| 16 | One of the major reasons for the widespread failure of rural developments is that it usually does not serve the interests of the people at whom it is ostensibly aimed . |
| 17 | The rationale of virtual-memory systems is that they can allocate memory on the basis of the actually observed demands for storage rather than on the potential , or worst case estimates , for the execution of a program . |
| 18 | One problem in tracing the development of Minoan towns is that the Later Minoan buildings in many cases replaced and obliterated every sign of the Middle Minoan buildings , which in turn effaced Early Minoan buildings . |
| 19 | One of the positive aspects of strong bosses is that they fight against injustice , and show themselves to be externally strong characters . |
| 20 | Another feature of electronic transitions is that the selection rule for pure vibrational transitions no longer applies . |
| 21 | Another characteristic of social policies is that , while some involve broad responses to popular needs and wishes , many are specific measures to assist quite small disadvantaged groups in the population . |
| 22 | Its detailed arrangements varied , in the many thousands of cases , but what is generally true about its form of social relations is that the artist was typically retained or commissioned as an individual professional worker . |
| 23 | It was previously suggested that one reason attention focusing might actually impair recognition of non-risky junctions is that it would prevent subjects from attending to useful peripheral information . |
| 24 | Perhaps the clearest indication of the increasingly multidisciplinary nature of Quaternary investigations is that a book written by a geographer , D.Q. Bowen , and published in 1978 is entitled Quaternary Geology and is subtitled A Stratigraphic Framework for Multidisciplinary Work . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | 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 : … |
| 27 | The great advantage of such institutions is that they fit you for prison conditions . |
| 28 | The beauty of such gardens is that they are not dependent on scale for their success . |
| 29 | In most cases the only disadvantage of such divisions is that you must pass through one room to reach the other . |
| 30 | One important feature of such factors is that they will tend to shape the person 's capacity to cope with adverse circumstances . |