Example sentences of "of [adj] is [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ A result of that is this rise in right-wing racist activity .
2 Of course , if you think about it the consequences of that is these guys die and when they die , those wives that they married as young girls are now middle-aged women or possibly younger , anyway past their youth , but th th they , they may not be .
3 One implication of this is that evaluation procedures are usually better developed in-house than bought in from other institutions .
4 The moral of this is that rationality , at least as narrowly defined , does not ‘ add-up ’ .
5 Computers in general have undoubtedly allowed us more dive time , but a consequence of this is that ascent speeds are now critical .
6 The advantage of this is that space is used economically .
7 The effect of this is that equity shares , or rights to them , can be allotted as subscribers ' shares , bonus shares or pursuant to an employees ' share scheme without first offering pre-emptive rights .
8 The implication of this is that context does not function to exclude candidates from the cohort .
9 The advantage of this is that teacher and child both know what the task is and what must be done to achieve success .
10 A possible explanation of this is that Ecgberht was indeed regarded as Ealhmund 's heir and that Ealhmund in turn inherited from King Ecgberht of Kent a local overlordship of south-eastern England which in varying forms had been a recurring feature of historical development in the area since the time of Aethelberht , son of Eormenric .
11 The point of all of this is that Niki is an excellent self-publicist and a determined mystifier .
12 The likely consequence of this is that project after project will fail to work because you have used one or more faulty or otherwise unsuitable components .
13 The consequence of this is that Modernism too must be a form of romantic anti-capitalism , and as such one-sided and vulnerable .
14 The advantage of this is that processing is simpler and more rapid .
15 What their parents would have made of this is another matter .
16 It has been shown that , in some animals , one of these is that lithium slows the free-running period of the body clock .
17 The first of these is that government is limited .
18 One of these is that foot ( in the relevant sense ) demands the presence of a specific lexical partner ; pronominal anaphoric reference to a previously occurring bill apparently will not do :
19 The most fundamental of these is that need , and not ability to pay , is and will remain the basis on which are is offered to all by the NHS .
20 The most certain of these is that employment in the primary sector has fallen for over 100 years , and continues to fall by around 2 to 3 per cent a year .
21 Most undermining of all is any stance which goes even beyond such " cynicism " and " passes the limits of decency " — however scholarly the technical procedures may be .
22 First of all is this decision , a vote of confidence for the Local Education Authority — Chubby Spencer , is it ?
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