Example sentences of "[is] [that] [pron] is [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 One consequence of this immobility is that everyone is surrounded by people very like himself , most of whom he has always known .
2 What must be remembered though is that whatever is asked and answered in a survey has to be inputted in some way and once it has been processed the output has to be read by someone .
3 The general maxim of the law is that what is annexed to the land becomes part of the land .
4 The trouble is that what is measured differs from medium to medium , and , therefore , cost measurements differ almost completely between , say , TV and posters in what they are costs of .
5 The rationalization is that everything is done in the interests of the patient , but it is also designed to protect professionals from feelings that are , for them , genuinely intolerable .
6 Its particular advantage is that everything is contained into a smaller central area .
7 ‘ You see , one of the advantages of being dead is that one is released as it were from the bonds of time and therefore I can see everything that has happened or will happen , all at the same time except that of course I now know that Time does not , for all practical purposes , exist . ’
8 Another difference between the characterization of Alison and that of the three men is that she is seen totally from the outside — one sees her appearance in her face and her clothes ; we see what actions she does .
9 Studies in which rats have been fed ethanol have suggested that there is reduced ability of hepatocytes to bind to laminin , type I collagen , and fibronectin ; a possible explanation for which is that there is reduced expression or activation of specific receptors for these matrix components .
10 The probable significance of all this is that it is mistaken to attempt to generalize about employers ' attitudes to young workers .
11 The downside of the book is that it is written in a terribly deadpan style : ‘ At forty-five Picasso had become a successful man .
12 The reason is that it is based , not on discernible facts , but on stories and writings that have been created by man himself in an era of his history obtaining long before he had learned that , if he were so minded , he could use his intellectual power to establish facts on which to build the structure , not only of his religion , but of the whole of his society .
13 The particular value of task-centred work is that it is based on an intention to form an agreement or contract between the client and the worker , thus freeing the client from the burden of always being a grateful recipient .
14 The real merit in this suggestion is that it is based upon ( in principle ) easily observed magnitudes those calculating the bonus need know only about price , output and cost levels in each period ; they do not need to estimate either demand or cost functions .
15 There is moreover a further difficulty with the thesis which is that it is based upon a dichotomy between fact and value which is hard to sustain .
16 The problem with this approach however is that it is based on opportunism rather than commitment .
17 A final reason for the possible failure of an appraisal system is that it is conducted as a top down , rather than a bottom up approach .
18 The reality of the process of change is that it is conducted in context .
19 Its other main claim to fame is that it is credited with inventing the word tweed to describe the famous cloth first made in the area .
20 What gives this discussion an additional interest , though , is that it is incorporated into an ambitious overarching historical schema , which aims to ‘ explain' nothing less than the whole development of world music .
21 The disparity between the revenue raised by the BBC in Scotland and the resources allocated by London to Scotland , reported today , highlights just how crucial is the debate over the BBC 's charter and how vital it is that it is made much more prominent in Scottish life .
22 The reason for keeping women and men separated is that it is felt that a man can not concentrate on prayer when women are in close proximity .
23 The third feature of English discovery to be noted is that it is limited to the discovery of documents .
24 In fact , the dilemma of any national state in cultural terms is that it is charged with defending cultural patrimony within a world market over which it exercises little control .
25 This is probably why , for most Prague linguists , part of the definition of theme is that it is given and part of the definition of rheme is that it is new .
26 The danger of adopting a systems approach uncritically is that it is assumed that it is sufficient to identify system structures and to portray the multitudinous variables involved in a particular system which then reinforces the first law of ecology as graphically described by Commoner ( 1972 ) that everything is connected to everything else .
27 Hong Kong 's special interest to the zoologist is that it is situated practically where two zoo-geographical regions meet , the Oriental , in which it actually lies , and the Palaearctic .
28 The chief significance of this from the ‘ separation of ownership and control ’ viewpoint is that it is said to restore ‘ integrity to the goal-specification and policing process ’ that is lost through the attenuation of shareholder control .
29 The main importance of A. braziliense is that it is regarded as the primary cause of cutaneous larva migrans in man .
30 ‘ The danger is that it is perceived that your board is already committed to change .
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