Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [is] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason for the hair loss is that during pregnancy hormone levels are higher and keep the hair in its growing phase for much longer . |
| 2 | ‘ I would remind you , Headmaster , that small as our boarding section is , the Ministry recommendation is that for any establishment of twenty boarders or more , a qualified matron be employed . |
| 3 | One argument for common investment funds is that at the moment they provide a way of getting round the narrow and wider investment bands that dictate charity investment . |
| 4 | Probably the best known Madeira folk dance group is that from Camacha , which was founded in 1948 under Dr Alfredo Ferreira de Nóbrega . |
| 5 | The argument against commodity bundling is that by offering a bundle of goods at a lower price than the sum of the prices for the components of the bundle the supplier is able to prevent competition from producers of individual goods within the bundle . |
| 6 | The reinvestment return is 55.74 but the reinvestment risk is that on 15 February the 1-month rate will have fallen from the 9.25 per cent expected to , say , 8.75 per cent . |
| 7 | The interesting ( and decidedly non-xenophobic ) thing about Mr Garel-Jones is that he is a Welshman married to a Spaniard ; the interesting thing about the Yorkshire Post report is that alongside the caption ‘ Tristan Garel-Jones ’ it carried a picture of Michael Fallon . |
| 8 | A disadvantage of this type of incentive scheme is that in a ’ bad ’ year the operative may work hard but , in the absence of profit , will receive no reward . |
| 9 | One of the curiosities of water mills is that in the North , unlike the South of England , the wheels are usually erected inside the buildings . |
| 10 | What the theist claims is that by observing the world as it is , not by attempting to look outside it , one can see that it bears within itself a fundamental self-insufficiency . |
| 11 | The monetarist view is that in the short-run there will be some increase in both P and Y , and that as Y rises , unemployment will fall . |
| 12 | One particularly crucial relationship at local authority level is that between officers and councillors , but there is no uniform pattern . |
| 13 | The only saving grace is that under pressure your decision-making seems to speed up and I 'm pleased to say that , instead of freezing , I quickly resolved that there was no way I could brake or slew the aircraft — still travelling at 55 or 60 mph — away from the ditch . |
| 14 | This does fulfil the essential of making your hero gain some useful fact from each scene you show him or her in , though the danger for the tyro plotter is that at the end of each interview one more suspect will have simply been " written out " . |
| 15 | One consequence of this role reversal is that in jacanas , as in many polyandrous species , the male is smaller and more cryptically coloured than the females . |
| 16 | Another factor which may influence the chances of conventional videodisc players is that in the 1990s , the collection of high quality , permanent recordings of movies and other programming might appeal in a way it never could in the early 1980s . |
| 17 | An important difference between conventional statistics and statistics of grain size distributions is that in the former frequency is expressed as numbers whereas in the latter it is as weight percentage . |
| 18 | The government plan is that over a four year term , there will be appraisal of all teachers in schools . |
| 19 | A fine example of this type of abbey church is that at Løgumkloster , founded in 1173 by the Cistercian Order . |
| 20 | The best preserved Cistercian Abbey Church is that on the river Vltava south of České Budejovice at Zlatá Koruna . |
| 21 | The end result is that in some cases , different authors having identical initials have been found . |
| 22 | The end result is that in some cases , different authors having identical initials have been found . |
| 23 | All the sudden excitement in the US among AT&T Co , MCI Communications Corp and Sprint Corp about toll-free 800 number business is that from this weekend , the numbers become portable so that subscribers can change from a carrier they do n't like to one that might appeal more , without changing the number . |
| 24 | Talk of ‘ processes ’ and ‘ states ’ commits us to an inappropriate way of looking at the matter — as though the only difference between understanding understanding and understanding sweating is that in the case of understanding understanding our gaze is directed inwards . |
| 25 | The other crucial difference between the types of memory test is that in a recognition test there is generally a relatively well defined set of distractor items . |
| 26 | The basic principle of the UGIX design is that in order to make a GIS easy to use the process of making a database enquiry , plotting a map or carrying out spatial analysis must be broken down into manageable parts , linked by a pathway for the user to follow . |
| 27 | The first important difference between such research and the earlier laboratory work is that in such research the items to be remembered are generally themselves the source of arousal . |
| 28 | The fundamental problem faced by the preliminary fact doctrine is that in an everyday sense all the elements relating to X , or , to X 1 , X 2 , X 3 , could be said to condition jurisdiction . |