Example sentences of "of [noun sg] is that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our measure of progress is that the way that we ask these questions has changed . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The consequence of this logic of action is that the management of the state enterprise ceases to be the unions ' sole potential bargaining partner . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The essence of Anglicanism is that the basis of our authority is located within the nexus of three sources — Bible , Church and reason . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The special attraction of wool is that the presence of lanolin acts as a powerful unconscious reminder of the mother 's belly . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The reality of AIDS is that the person can die at any time . |
| 18 | His worry about the ‘ practical ’ principles of morality is that the doctrine of their innateness prevents people working them out for themselves . |
| 19 | The advantage of this sort of work is that the descriptions of cellular mechanisms are very detailed and this provides a good basis for determining whether the same cellular mechanisms are available in mammals . |
| 20 | But the problem with this type of creation-as-destruction is that the negative aspect is easily equated with nihilism . |
| 21 | The most important single aspect of siting is that the hutch must be positioned so that it does not receive direct sunlight . |
| 22 | Although it is difficult to determine what was the original material from which these rocks were derived , the general consensus of opinion is that the original material was of igneous origin , with the old term orthogneiss being used to describe these rocks in the past . |
| 23 | One reason for these differences of opinion is that the claims made for serotonin reuptake inhibitors are often based on the results of individual trials . |
| 24 | Another area of distinction is that the object model can represent an abstraction and generalisation ( Smith & Smith , 1977 ) . |
| 25 | He observed : ‘ For the profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battles is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders , not in the bodies of their men . ’ |
| 26 | The new position as a result of Litster is that the purchaser can be liable for any dismissal in connection with a sale irrespective of whether the dismissals take place before , on or after completion . |
| 27 | The report says : ‘ Further evidence of the appeal of owner-occupation is that the proportion of council tenants expecting eventually to buy their present home has actually increased over the years . ’ |
| 28 | What is significant for understanding why to is used with the infinitive of reaction is that the notion of " evaluation " implies a judgement as to whether the event was opportune or not , and this judgement involves an implicit reference to the situation as it existed before the infinitive event occurred , i.e. to the factors making its occurrence either opportune or inopportune . |
| 29 | A basic principle of sustainability is that the needs of the present generation should be met without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs . |
| 30 | A basic principle of sustainability is that the needs of the present generation should be met without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs . |