Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] is that [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A useful rule to remember is that a diagonal line between opposite corners of any rectangle is the longest dimension available . |
| 2 | None the less , what the United States data imply is that the upward trend in recorded crime is in the same direction as actual victimization , although at a slower rate . |
| 3 | While empirical evidence relating unemployment levels to the unionization level in the USA provides some support for the analysis , the major point the authors offer is that the explicit or implicit adoption of price-taking competitive behaviour in macro modelling is misleading . |
| 4 | All Hanne knows is that the two of them are staying somewhere in Copenhagen for an indefinite period . ’ |
| 5 | One important point which Anthony makes is that the essential quality of the psychotic temperament is emotional hypersensitivity or ‘ skinlessness ’ , with which the child copes by developing a degree of resilience to painful thoughts and events . |
| 6 | From a health policy perspective the scenario depicted is that the increasing numbers of older people described earlier will lead to the population of the western industrial nations being infirm , demented and disease ridden with an insatiable demand for health and social care . |
| 7 | But the point to notice is that a key part of humanist thought , from the early Greeks down to the twentieth century , is the attempt to justify man 's knowledge by his reason alone , denying the necessity of faith in general and God 's revelation in particular . |
| 8 | One further point to note is that the Legal Aid Board may exercise a statutory charge on any money or property recovered or preserved by the client in respect of unpaid fees . |
| 9 | An important point to note is that the existing theories are sometimes in conflict and the empirical tests have so far proved inconclusive . |
| 10 | A further point to note is that the extreme left-hand columns in both table 6.4 and table 6.5 are empty and additionally the extreme right-hand column in table 6.5 is empty ; this is because these ‘ extreme ’ realizations occur only in the inner-city areas . |
| 11 | In short , what the figures confirm is that the major achievement of building societies is to take funds from surplus units within the personal sector , to supplement these with lending from other sectors and to lend to personal sector units who wished to go into deficit to buy houses . |
| 12 | Unless it is to be assumed that all these territories represent kingdoms established by the Mercians , what the evidence indicates is that the Mercian leaders were extending their influence into originally independent kingdoms on their borders . |
| 13 | The first thing to observe is that no genuine Hooray ever moves his upper lip while talking . |
| 14 | ‘ Now , ’ he whispered confidentially , ‘ the thing to remember is that the Greek Orthodox priest is the one on the left with the beard , ’ and with that flung me determinedly into my seat . |
| 15 | The irony of police work is that the lowest of the low — the street constable , unlike in other ‘ professional ’ occupations , is the one who can exercise the maximum discretion at work . |
| 16 | So the second factor that the Prime Minister overlooked is that the existing chamber in Strasbourg is simply not large enough to accommodate the extra numbers of Euro MPs who will be elected to the European parliament , not so much as a result of the Edinburgh agreement , but in fact as a result of the er enlargement that is in prospect . |
| 17 | The simple idea to follow is that the quickest way is the best way . |
| 18 | What has in fact happened is that the old idea of the ’ estates ' has been re-created in Mexican law . |