Example sentences of "[is] that [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Its theoretical underpinning is that under the right conditions ‘ the central nervous system will restructure itself ’ .
2 One of the very satisfying factors is that despite the difficult times that some companies are facing , they are continuing with their sponsorship of the arts , often in partnership with my office , through the business sponsorship incentive scheme award .
3 Another possible implication is that into the early years of the next century fewer old people will lack kin support or would be living alone than is often assumed .
4 Another advantage Granada has over the competition , he says , is that unlike the big vendors now scurrying onto the marketplace to boost revenues , Granada — structured around the Data Processing Customer Engineering Plc acquisition and sundry add-ons — has been in the game for years and knows its strengths and weaknesses .
5 One obvious limitation of local authority-run centres is that unlike the independent centres they can not help local authority tenants and homeless applicants fight legal battles against the authority .
6 What the tourist will also find is that among the Arab nations , there are none more genial than the Omanis .
7 Emma is always asking when we will go back , and our only worry now is that in a few years she will probably be waking us up at dawn on icy mornings , saying : ‘ Shall we go down the black run first ? ’
8 The grim alternative is that in a few years many more specialties will be in the position of thoracic medicine and more junior doctors will spend even longer in the training grades .
9 One illustration of the extent of the damage is that in the Eastern Plains where domesticated animal off-take is 900–1300 kg/ km 2 , that of the wild ungulate biomass in unspoilt areas of a national park is in the order of 15,000 — 28,000 kg/km 2 .
10 One reason for this is that in the simpler forms of legal system the ideas of ultimate rule of recognition , supreme criterion , and legally unlimited legislature seem to converge .
11 My answer to the first part of his question is that in the few weeks that I have had my present portfolio , two or three times in public I have stated my firm belief that it is in the interests of the people of Northern Ireland , the police and the security forces — indeed , in the interests of all of us — that the law be applied even-handedly and that those responsible for applying the law should do so .
12 The first and most important consideration is that in the forty years since 9 August 1945 , despite the fact that all the nuclear powers have been involved in wars at one time or another , nuclear weapons have not once been used militarily .
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