Example sentences of "[noun] [be] that [det] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The result is that all Home Secretaries are grossly over-worked , although most will have found their own ways of keeping their heads above water .
2 The result is that many manufacturing firms have decided to locate their physical production processes outside the metropolitan regions .
3 The result is that many glider pilots are becoming complacent about parking and on a really windy day it is not unusual to see gliders at risk , just waiting for the first really big gust of wind to blow them over .
4 The result is that many farm workers are caught in the poverty trap between exemption from taxation and receipt of means-tested benefit ( Winyard 1978 ) .
5 A general point to be kept in mind throughout this chapter is that any tax reform involves the costs of transition from one scheme to another .
6 The importance of computers is that these arbitrage opportunities can be quickly spotted and capitalised upon .
7 The main stumbling block for all suppliers like NEC is that few city networks have much hard currency to spend on new equipment , and since local rouble telephone charges are so low , no company can recoup the initial investment from tariff income .
8 The result was that all New York fares could now be reduced , bringing them to a level only slightly above that of Virgin 's competing New York fare , and fares on the Boston route were adjusted to match the New York level .
9 Their dream is that many business PC users — as opposed to the scientists and engineers who usually buy workstations — will ‘ trade up ’ when they realise just how speedily such machines can crunch numbers .
10 The corollary is that some catalogue information has only a limited life , since it may in its turn be overtaken by new research .
11 Basically the burden of the Test Act was that all office holders erm all holders of public office had to take an oath of allegiance and had to erm take the sacraments in the Church of England otherwise they could n't hold public office .
12 The one complication is that all Windows applications place the same sort of minimum demands on a machine and so if you want to work in a Windows environment you will have to add the extra requirements to machine fit to run Windows .
13 Another drawback is that many census estimates concentrate on natural change ( i.e. the difference between births and deaths ) and tend to ignore the most effective component of population change in the western world , migration .
14 One view is that it is the result of government parsimony towards prison staff ; the other is that such staff shortages as occur are due to the arcane system of rigid restrictive practices developed by the Prison Officers ' Association ( POA ) .
15 The second development was that some Basrah crude finally reached the open sea .
16 The news is that those Rock Lobster lovers , The B-52's will be bringing their Love Shack to Britain in December but , hey , why wait that long ?
17 The only requirement for bringing software under LIFESPAN control is that each source file ( except for those in the FOREIGN-SET ) must contain a module header .
18 The obvious implication is that many asylum seekers may miss the deadline and lose the chance to appeal .
19 Despite many a scratched hand , the official ruling is that any pedigree cat found to have had its claws removed is automatically and unconditionally disqualified from competing .
20 The reason is that many MS-DOS spreadsheet programs are so large that they use most of the 640KBytes of conventional memory .
21 A third reason is that some bank managers feel threatened by a measure which could prove embarrassing .
22 The reason is that most school libraries do not have and possibly never will have an adequate range of stock to satisfy the information needs of children in schools .
23 The underlying assumption is that this age gap between pupils in the same class is not important , but it may be that younger children are at a disadvantage educationally .
24 But the unpleasant reality is that some holiday destinations are positively dangerous .
25 A consequence of the lower risk is that many futures exchanges require lower margins for spreads than for single positions .
26 A consequence of this destabilizing cycle is that most home buyers take on their mortgages when credit is freely available and when lending institutions , facing still competition , are offering the best interest rates .
27 Another point to keep firmly in mind about the Guinness Flight Global Strategy Fund is that all fund dividends are paid gross rather than net of tax .
28 The fiction is that those state agencies are able to and do exert democratic influences ; or at least , they impose a measure of accountability to the public .
29 The difficulty is that many US corporations neglect to complement an overlapping strategy with the required intensive information processing .
30 The contrast is that these Pacific rim countries are investing in tomorrow at a rate of knots .
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