Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] is that [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the most remarkable things about the Peniel story is that the larger narrative proceeds almost entirely as if it was not there . |
| 2 | Once the test pilot comes out of the chamber , a nasty side effect is that the ageing process becomes speeded up . |
| 3 | The idea behind the Partnership Act is that the internal affairs of the partnership are for the partners to decide . |
| 4 | Perhaps the most important feature about all these , and other , aspects of the primary socialization process is that a large part of it is unplanned and non-deliberate . |
| 5 | An implicit tenet of museum life is that the original object is the ultimate historical source . |
| 6 | As for Unix , as we said way back in 1984 when we forecast that it would come to dominate the mainstream market , it is fundamentally quite inappropriate as the basis of a robust commercial operating system because it is designed for free sharing of resources and code between users , where one of the most important requirements of a mission-critical operating system is that the crass behaviour of some idiot wo n't bring the system down . |
| 7 | The first point to be made about recent rural population change is that the broad spatial processes of the 1970s and early 1980s can be traced back into not only the 1960s , but even the 1950s ( Compton , 1983 ) . |
| 8 | You should never under any circumstances fully discharge a NiCad battery.The reason is that a sure way to destroy a NiCad cell is to reverse charge it . |
| 9 | The most significant difference at the search and investigation stage is that the national press will retain interest in a case only if there is scope for the construction of a sex fiend who continues to wreak havoc on a community . |
| 10 | System requirements : any Windows 3. x compatible PC One of the results of the PC revolution is that the traditional typing pool is quickly disappearing as more managers type their own correspondence and reports . |
| 11 | And the cause is manifest in every sordid glimpse we gain of their parents and their homes … the enduring lesson to be learned from this painful wartime experiment is that the primary aim of education must be to produce not merely cleverer children , but in the next generation wiser parents |
| 12 | ( 2 ) The principal advantage of a cash underwritten alternative over a rights issue is that the new shares in the bidder are allotted to the target 's shareholders , in which case merger relief and , possibly , merger accounting may be available ( see para 23.1 below ) . |
| 13 | A consequence of the renormalization procedure is that the effective coupling constant of the theory depends on the energy at which it is measured and decreases to zero at very high energies . |
| 14 | The implied threat to anon-co-operating probation service is that a new organisation could be created : |
| 15 | ONE CURIOUS explanation for the mega-success of Spielberg 's adaptation of Peter Benchley 's blockbuster novel is that the mechanical sharks graphically depicted the syndrome psychiatrists call vagina dentata . |
| 16 | But the peculiar feature of the health service organization is that the regional links in the chain , the regional health authorities , are semi-autonomous organizations , standing between DHSS and another rather similar set of organizations , the district health authorities . |
| 17 | One reason why Lisberger and Sejnowski assume another synaptic plasticity in the brain stem pathway is that the LTD alone does not explain the two-way adaptation , increase and decrease of the VOR gain . |
| 18 | One of the Regional Council 's reasons for refusal of planning permission is that the proposed development falls outside the areas identified for office use in the Lothian Region Structure Plan 1985 and can not be justified on prime land in the Green Belt as there is no essential overriding need , given the supply of office floorspace currently available , under construction or with outstanding planning permission , which is more than sufficient to satisfy development needs within the Structure Plan period to 1996 and beyond . |
| 19 | A first condition for the company to react to the opportunities and constraints offered by the engineering dimension is that the individual engineer should have insight into the responsibilities , problems and attitudes of the other company functions . |
| 20 | The intuitive explanation for the negative slope of the aggregate demand curve is that a higher price implies , ceteris paribus , a lower real quantity of money in the economy since the real quantity of money is defined to be the nominal quantity of money , M , divided by the general level of prices , P 1 that is M÷P , One way in which people may respond to finding themselves with less real money than they had before is by selling off holdings of bonds to rebuild their holdings of money . |
| 21 | By contrast , the essence of the unorthodox view of insider dealing is that the financial conglomerate itself , through its directors , or other corporate personnel , is the ‘ insider ’ , or ‘ quasi insider ’ . |
| 22 | Fourth , a further difference between the NCRA and the block exemption is that the latter offers a safe harbour for firms that do not compete directly with each other in relevant output markets , or for rivals whose collective market share is less than 20 per cent There are two issues of interest here . |
| 23 | Second , a striking difference between the NCRA and the block exemption is that the former provides no immunity from prosecution , while the latter rules out prosecution ( at least for certain types of agreements ) for a limited period of time . |
| 24 | The main premise in FSP theory is that the communicative goals of an interaction cause the structure of a clause or sentence to function in different kinds of perspective . |
| 25 | The problem about the word communitarianism is that the French have pinched it . |
| 26 | The advantages of the Lucas bus is that the rubber tyres give it better grip on steel and help to reduce shocks on the chassis . |
| 27 | Well the thing is you see I think wha from what I 've gathered on from the radio programme is that the actual erm the attitude of the kids to the metro had got so much worse that they 're having to do something about it |
| 28 | The children ( Max , five , and Oliver , seven ) play freely throughout the house — the Stothert philosophy is that the odd mark on the furniture all adds to the patina . |
| 29 | A minus point is that the oil-filter cap can only be reached with the covers off . |
| 30 | Implicit in the discussion of this data analysis and database approach is that a total system is implemented . |