Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] is that the " in BNC.

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1 Remember that the point about self-access is that the learners make their own choices about how they will use the resources at their disposal .
2 Bad news for shareholders is that the dividend for the year is being halved to 5.25p per share .
3 The third criterion for recognition is that the item can be measured at a monetary amount with sufficient reliability .
4 The bad news for Labour is that the section of the party which is n't blaming Kinnock is blaming John Smith instead — both for an unnecessarily harsh tax programme and an unnecessarily timid attack on the Government 's economic record .
5 The big snag for listeners is that the equipment for receiving the surround-sound is not yet on sale .
6 The most interesting fact revealed about Norma is that the poor dear is obviously deranged .
7 The only danger for Aga-sagas is that the market will become saturated .
8 Our measure of progress is that the way that we ask these questions has changed .
9 The most significant feature of Taos is that the kernel takes up just 13Kb of memory — and is blindingly fast on complex applications such as graphics ray tracing .
10 The most significant feature of Taos is that the kernel takes up just 13Kb of memory — and is blindingly fast on complex applications such as graphics ray tracing .
11 The big drawback of FAXgrabber is that the quality of the text conversion is totally dependant on the quality of the original material — the received fax .
12 What happens in the Celebration is of Election is that the erm it happens at the end of mass I think or round the end of mass .
13 Erm , what Mr very carefully very carefully failed to mention of course is that the rates of has in fact gone up by eleven point one percent .
14 The best hope of course is that the rates which the government has chosen to go in at will be sustainable , that the government will be able to combine cuts with interest rates , cuts in interest rates , with the needs of the economy and the constraints of the European Monetary System , so that it actually gets a downward path of interest rates at the rate which the economy needs , without provoking a sterling crisis which would push sterling to the bottom of its permitted rates , and produce a crisis of erm of confidence needing higher interest rates .
15 A crucial difference , of course , between the " real " model of reality and the " mock reality " of fiction is that the mock reality does not exist apart from the message by which it is conveyed : this is the case , at least , if we regard a fictional work in its entirety as constituting a single message .
16 The problem with this sort of provision is that the cycle lanes have to be carried across junctions , which represent both bottlenecks and accident black spots on the network .
17 Long-run stability of V. The main claim of monetarists is that the velocity of circulation ( V ) is relatively stable over the longer run , and any changes that do occur are the predictable outcome of institutional changes , such as the increased availability and use of credit cards .
18 Probably the most important assertion of monetarists is that the velocity of circulation of money , although not constant , is predictable , independent of the money supply and stably related to a limited number of variables .
19 The consequence of this logic of action is that the management of the state enterprise ceases to be the unions ' sole potential bargaining partner .
20 A further fear of industry is that the monies raised by carbon taxation will not be channelled into research or development of energy efficiency but will simply be used to line government coffers .
21 The clear lesson of the history of modernism is that the academic left is quite capable of fashioning a central instrument for the reproduction of the interests of the dominant class at precisely the moment when it is making the most strident claims to the contrary .
22 The essence of Anglicanism is that the basis of our authority is located within the nexus of three sources — Bible , Church and reason .
23 One problem with the above studies which used GSR to different words as a manipulation of arousal is that the words producing high arousal were not necessarily the ones which would have been predicted a priori .
24 If there is a lunar-wide crust then one explanation of the offset of the centre of mass from the centre of figure is that the crust on the far side is , on average , thicker than on the near side .
25 The special attraction of wool is that the presence of lanolin acts as a powerful unconscious reminder of the mother 's belly .
26 But what must astonish us , I think , more than the details of violence is that the only charges brought as a result of this death were against three men who were charged with assault and punished with a 20 shillings ' fine , with the additional requirement that they should pay the doctor 's bill on the dead man .
27 Linked with this periodic replacement and expansion of fixed capital will be the proposition that the direct cause of the outbreak of crises is that the sale of means of consumption falls relative to the volume of their production .
28 The central idea of ethnomethodology is that the orderliness of social life is not the result of people obeying social norms or giving way to social pressures , but rather that orderliness is attained by all those involved working to achieve it .
29 The major problem with the use of n-grams is that the candidate strings remaining after look-up are not guaranteed to be words .
30 The reality of AIDS is that the person can die at any time .
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