Example sentences of "[noun pl] [is] that [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | However , one of this industry 's main characteristics is that it attracts the maverick . |
| 4 | One of the biggest attractions for fans is that they like to identify with the group ; they want to be part of The Club . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The problem with such lists is that they do not specify any order . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The first development of the Tollmien-Schlichting waves is that they become three-dimensional ; their amplitude varies in the lateral direction parallel to the wall . |
| 9 | The problem with device drivers is that they have to be installed in your CONFIG.SYS file , and it is usually helpful to have an install routine guide you through the process — lord knows , just about every other program you come across these days insists on writing to CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT . |
| 10 | ‘ One of our strengths is that we have been making catalysts for many years and only market those which we have used in our own plants , ’ explained Dr Barrie Pearce , commercial assistant for ICI Catalysts at Billingham , Cleveland . |
| 11 | One of the work 's main strengths is that it covers all social positions . |
| 12 | My only reservation with his classification of roles is that it reflects a Western preoccupation with task behaviours . |
| 13 | Part of the problem with encouraging girls to take ‘ useful ’ subjects is that we do not know whether it makes any difference to the kinds of jobs they eventually do ; and whether , indeed , these jobs would still be highly rated if women did them . |
| 14 | But Sir David said yesterday : ‘ We 've always had doubts about this policy , and the thing that now confirms our doubts is that it has n't worked . ’ |
| 15 | Indeed one possible advantage offered by computers is that they free children from lower order tasks and allow far more time for higher order thinking — instead of laboriously drawing a graph , pupils have more time for analysis of a graph produced by the computer . |
| 16 | One of the most important aspects is that we saw ourselves as town traders — that magical area where buyer and seller come together . |
| 17 | The major attraction of a fully-fledged GIS is that it gives access to large volumes of cartographic and attribute data which can be manipulated according to the needs of the user and the flexibility of the system software . |
| 18 | Like Mr Kinnock , he has travelled from Land 's End to John O'Groats since 1983 in terms of the policies he believes in , but the impression that abides after his speeches is that he stays loyal to ancient socialism in a way that his more revisionist colleagues have abandoned . |
| 19 | Here , the only justification for the introduction of these syndromes is that they reflect a psychiatric ( i.e. medically based ) taxonomy . |
| 20 | Cos one of the things that I said , you know , just when I was looking through the last five or six months is that it did seem er , to be inconsistent in terms of certain areas like the first floor , there 's an awful lot of reporting going on but , there was very little from the other , from the other areas . |
| 21 | Perhaps the best that can be said of Mr Karimov 's treatment of dissidents is that it has been consistent . |
| 22 | The problem with these street preachers is that you do n't get the choice not to hear them . ’ |
| 23 | One useful function of hypotheses is that they help to indicate what data are needed for their testing . |
| 24 | The reason for the bird 's big feet is that it needs a large shovel with which to pile up the mound of compost , earth and leaf litter in which the fowl buries and incubates its single very large egg . |
| 25 | The great advantage of such trials is that they resolve uncertainty so that an effective measure is more likely to be adopted and an ineffective one more likely to be abandoned . |
| 26 | However , the reason for linguistic interest in the maxims is that they generate inferences beyond the semantic content of the sentences uttered . |
| 27 | The fourth characteristic of each of the three countries is that they have had the luck to avoid the worst of the droughts which have badly affected agriculture and hydro-electric power supplies in many African countries in the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 28 | Fatima : I think the main difference between the Feminist Movement in Europe and Third World Countries is that they originated on the basis of different histories . |
| 29 | One of the unwritten rules of non-Muslims who work or travel in Muslim countries is that you do n't eat or drink in front of your fasting friends . |
| 30 | models is that they provide a basis for the solution of complex problems in static or dynamic situations . |