Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] is [conj] " 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 | A dilemma for British reformers is whether to list or illustrate the types of impairment envisaged . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | An important feature of Tit for Tat-like strategies is that they are forgiving . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | One advantage of complete mixes is that these problems have been corrected by nutritionists who work for the compound feed manufacturers . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | One of the positive aspects of strong bosses is that they fight against injustice , and show themselves to be externally strong characters . |
| 17 | Another feature of electronic transitions is that the selection rule for pure vibrational transitions no longer applies . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Part of the manifestation of social relations is as knowledge , shared by human beings and used to inform their actions . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | One of the most exciting features of arid-loving plants is that they are so diverse not only in leaf colour and flower , but also in texture and shape . |
| 24 | From the water companies ' point of view , the advantage of indirect systems is that they reduce the effects on the mains of heavy demand ( first thing in the morning , for example ) and that they keep most of the householder 's water system separate from the mains supply . |
| 25 | The main criticism of transcendent philosophies is that though the ideas are beautiful and those who live by their precepts can be happy , yet men ask what relevance the philosophies have for our modern world of materialism where we must make progress and raise humanity out of starvation and ignorance . |
| 26 | The distribution of uncited theses is as follows : |
| 27 | The reason why company law should have been so concerned to legitimate the power of corporate managers is that this power potentially threatens the political-economic organization we associate with a liberal democracy . |
| 28 | The paradox at the heart of Party-military relations is that the Soviet Armed Forces are simultaneously the most privileged organisation in society and the most assiduously controlled . |
| 29 | The big disadvantage of conventional paints is that they contain a high percentage of solvents which evaporate when the paint dries and leave traces in the atmosphere . |
| 30 | One significant advantage of electric vehicles is that their widespread use would make far better use of off-peak electricity . |