Example sentences of "[indef pn] is that the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 One is that the small river or stream was low one night as it was a particularly dry period , the innkeeper deposited the body as per usual , but by the morning it had not drifted away .
2 The difference between a direct hot water cylinder and an indirect one is that the latter has a heat exchanger , often in the form of a coiled pipe , which takes the hot water from the boiler and passes its heat to the domestic hot water in the cylinder , the two never mixing .
3 An important one is that the possible substitutes for man ( preserving grammaticality , but not necessarily semantic normality ) are virtually identical in the two positions .
4 Psychological research on human thinking suggests two alternative views of the machinery of the mind ; one is that the mental representations and cognitive processes are abstract , language-like forms manipulated by rules , and an alternative is that they are mental models whose structure corresponds not to language but to states of affairs in the world .
5 One is that the present level of unemployment must concern the health service ( and 1 have said nothing about other social problems ! ) .
6 One is that the bigger the event ( up to about 3,000 people ) the more it costs proportionally .
7 One is that the light-sensitive pigments of the eye could also act as magnetic sense organs .
8 One is that the statutory services are not uniformly ideal and beyond reproach and those of us who have worked in and with them would acknowledge that .
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