Example sentences of "of [noun pl] is [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem with a lot of acts is that they do n't realize their limitations . |
| 2 | As Lord Keith said in Lonrho Plc. v. Secretary of State for Trade and Industry [ 1989 ] 1 W.L.R. 525 , 539 : ‘ The only significance of the absence of reasons is that if all other known facts and circumstances appear to point overwhelmingly in favour of a different decision , the decision-maker , who has given no reasons can not complain if the court draws the inference that he had no rational reason for his decision . ’ |
| 3 | The composition of the Cytherean atmosphere in terms of relative numbers of molecules is as follows : 96% CO 2 ; 3.5% N 2 ; 0.015% SO 2 ; about 0.01% H 2 O in the lower atmosphere ; 0.007% Ar ; plus traces of several other gases . |
| 4 | The plan of operations is as follows . |
| 5 | Yet the whole point of crossbenchers is that their values are unpigeonholeable . |
| 6 | The full list of courts is as follows : Barnet Marylebone Bloomsbury Mayor & City of London Bow Shoreditch Brentford Wandsworth Clerkenwell West London Edmonton Westminster Lambeth Willesden The Lord Chancellor has power to redesignate insolvency districts under s 374(1) . |
| 7 | THE CONSERVATION of birds is but part of the whole subject of wildlife conservation . |
| 8 | I 'm also an alternative therapist and I do find that this is one of the major problems , that ninety percent of my patients who come to me suffer from stress and depression , and really what has happened in a lot of cases is that they have been put on valium and drugs , they find the side effects are horrific ! |
| 9 | Much more cost effective is n't it if things to be done once rather than have to do reading them two or three times and generally the reason that things are repeated a number of times is that perhaps people are not really quite sure or not that that are systems , yet productivity the better trained people are people who can do things , get it right the first time and they can do more work ca n't they than somebody else you are not having to pick it up as the manager responsible and put mistakes right . |
| 10 | The huge value of a band of instrumentalists is as yet largely unexploited by the Church . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A second assertion of monetarists is that in the absence of government intervention in the economy , there will be an automatic tendency towards the ‘ natural rate of unemployment ’ — that is , ‘ the level of unemployment which has the property that it is consistent with equilibrium in the structure of real wage rates ’ . |
| 14 | Indeed the whole point of Smith 's contention in his 1776 treatise The Wealth of Nations is that if individuals pursue their own self-interests then , as it were , an invisible hand will guide all their separate strivings and competition and lead them into the greater good for society as a whole . |
| 15 | Perhaps the best that can be said of Mr Karimov 's treatment of dissidents is that it has been consistent . |
| 16 | The second major characteristic of words is that they are typically the largest units which resist ‘ interruption ’ by the insertion of new material between their constituent parts . |
| 17 | One of the issues that has inexplicably failed to get even a whisper of an airing in the campaign wars of words is whether a graphical interface is the preferred environment for a large proportion of desktop users . |
| 18 | The importance of computers is that these arbitrage opportunities can be quickly spotted and capitalised upon . |
| 19 | My only reservation with his classification of roles is that it reflects a Western preoccupation with task behaviours . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | So the id is a jumble of contradictions and the reason it 's a jumble of contradictions is that it 's not in contact with reality . |
| 22 | The major problem with the use of n-grams is that the candidate strings remaining after look-up are not guaranteed to be words . |
| 23 | The paradigm underlying this family of methods is that patterns or clusters appear nonrandomly in the training set , for some unknown underlying reason . |
| 24 | 7.7.1 to comply with all the requirements and recommendations of the insurers The problem with the requirements and recommendations of insurers is that some insurers can impose quite unreasonable requirements and recommendations . |
| 25 | For the water authorities in general the practical significance of consents is that many rivers are now substantially comprised of effluent already discharged subject to consent . |
| 26 | A useful rule of documentaries is that re-creations of scenes which occurred before filming always leave the viewer feeling cheated . |
| 27 | But the thing that always concerns me about these kind of decisions under those kind of circumstances is that it might be a temporary depression : in other words a suicide wish , and this is a terrifically difficult issue that is bantered about a lot under these kind of circumstances , and normally , if someone says ‘ Kill me , ’ you figure they 're crazy . |
| 28 | Another standard complaint of engineers is that too much government R&D money goes into defence — nearly half , compared with 36% in France , 13% in Italy , 9% in Germany and none in Japan . |
| 29 | with Frude 's assertion that one of the advantages of hackers is that they generally become very proficient programmers . |
| 30 | The most obvious practical implication of strokes is that we need to help people achieve their stroke quotas . |