Example sentences of "[is] [that] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's that they have equal decisions , really so you ca n't say . |
| 2 | One apparent stumbling block to mounting more research is that we lack qualified people to do it or the resources to employ or deploy them , but as so often , a wider and less conventional look at the problem reveals one possible solution . |
| 3 | The important thing is that we go onstage feeling like a unit , rather than a bunch of individuals who happen to be playing in the same key . ’ |
| 4 | Now because of these two problems we violate er a couple of assumptions of ordinary lease squares right , and as a result , the upshot of this is that we get biased estimates of our parameters A B C and D , right , they will be biased and also they wo n't have the minimum variants property right , they wo n't be the best estimators you , the statistics you talk about blue estimates , best linear and biased alright . |
| 5 | The transformation which God works in our lives is that we become real people . |
| 6 | The fact is that we give exceptional leave to remain because it would be inhumane to send some people , such as the Croatian that the hon. Member mentioned , back to their country at this time , even though they may not have made a claim of persecution . |
| 7 | And all we say is that we pay extra commission if we send you away but it is against er against our principle and even er economics to send people that far away . |
| 8 | I am sure that one of the things that prevents us from accepting help is that we think other people wo n't do things the way we do them . |
| 9 | One feature of prison rules as published in most administrations is that they require different provisions for different categories of prisoner . |
| 10 | ‘ The trouble with modern textiles is that they use synthetic dyes and the colours do n't look right in an old setting , ’ Patsy says . |
| 11 | The main drawback with both types is that they use special paper which can be expensive and is only available in rolls which can make storage difficult as the printer does n't produce separate pages . |
| 12 | The downside to this is that they lose valuable advertising space on television programmes such as Saturday Superstore . |
| 13 | The main advantage of compression joints is that they make complicated pipe runs much easier since the joints can all be assembled , tightened , slackened off again and the pipe rotated in the joint to get the position right before the nuts are all re-tightened . |
| 14 | The major criticism of such charts is that they assume linear relationships between costs and output , and sales ] and revenue , whereas this is not always true . |
| 15 | The second reason , less plausibly , is that they regard non-shareholder groups as having legitimate claims on the company and believe that these claims should be satisfied even though a reduction in shareholder wealth is involved . |
| 16 | Their big advantage is that they ignore difficult ground and obstacles . |
| 17 | The trouble with everyone these days is that they want constant sensation , to live on the peaks of existence . ’ |
| 18 | Historically the most important aspect of Davenant 's productions is that they removed English masque/opera from the Court to the field of public entertainment . |
| 19 | The chief importance of the cases is that they illustrate general principles . |
| 20 | An interesting feature of the jades is that they included numerous pieces in the form of halberd blades . |
| 21 | The main problem for instrumental Marxist accounts is that they have great difficulty in explaining the eclecticism and indeterminacy of events in the world under a single reductionist or economist explanation which relates all actions by the state to the desires and power capabilities of a ruling class based on economic ownership . |
| 22 | One of the chief reasons why these issues have been so hotly contested is that they have enormous bearing both on the significance of the religious changes introduced under Charles I and on the possible causes of the English civil war . |
| 23 | The reason is that they have different functions , which impose different constraints on their nature . |
| 24 | Another major advantage over the thinner types of cladding is that they provide additional insulation to exterior walls ( which can be augmented by fixing them over an extra layer of insulation ) . |
| 25 | The importance of corpora to workers in linguistics is that they provide real instances of the language ( as opposed to interesting phrases that a linguist may conceive ) and may be used to train and test natural language systems . |
| 26 | The rationale for the use of these two types of context is that they provide different amounts of prior information . |
| 27 | ‘ The end result is that I 've large arrears on the centre 's mortgage , and now the building society is threatening repossession in the new year , unless we can clear the arrears . |
| 28 | One of the reasons , Brian , is that I think German history is too important to be left to the German historians . |
| 29 | ‘ What no-one can deny is that I have Scottish blood in me , and I have always known it was there ’ , he said . |
| 30 | But the notion of a token economy is that you reward desired behaviour at the point at which the behaviour is performed , okay ? |