Example sentences of "[verb] is that [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is happening is that the old orthodoxies are being softened , rather than up-ended . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Very broadly , what happens is that the budgeted amounts of expenditure are credited to appropriation accounts and then as expenditure is incurred debits are set against these credits . |
| 4 | What those figures certainly reveal is that the real gains in investment in British business since 1979 have been sustained , so that even at the depth of this present recession investment is 40 per cent . |
| 5 | So what happened is that the literate women arranged their time so that every day they now have an hour set by to sit down with one of the illiterates and that 's how the literacy campaign is operating at the moment . |
| 6 | Wittgenstein 's answer to the question with which we began is that the psychological verbs , as he calls them , are ‘ characterized by the fact that the third person of the present is to be verified by observation , the first person not ’ . |
| 7 | You end up er collapsed , taking deep breaths , and what that is trying to do is that the deep breaths are circulating oxygen into the body , the oxygen is then able to break down the lactic acid into other substances which are less harmful . |
| 8 | All that we are concerned to ensure is that the present applicants have a proper opportunity of obtaining the evidence they seek so that the grave allegations which they make — the very same allegations that troubled this court sufficiently to allow the appellant 's appeal — can be properly tested in the courts . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Erm , so we are particularly pleased to have you here because we know as well that the G M B is in the forefront of erm establishing activity within Europe , one of , one of the few unions I think is that the only unions will have an office open in Brussels . |
| 11 | What it really means is that the new trams are a hybrid between street car and lightweight suburban train . |
| 12 | However , Hyperion do not name the venue and all I can say is that the given acoustics have not been allowed to supply the degree of warm enrichment this music seems to demand . |
| 13 | An important point to note is that the existing theories are sometimes in conflict and the empirical tests have so far proved inconclusive . |