Example sentences of "[is] that [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 What is clear is that either through the use of broadband distribution or by means of data compression-decompression , multimedia will play an important and innovative role in a range of online applications in the 1990s .
2 Presumably , the reason is that even with a word mask , word targets are represented at two levels ( word detector and letter detector ) while letter targets are represented at only one .
3 The plain fact is that even in a deposit based account , unless you 're a non-tax payer , any interest you make will already have had tax deducted and you may find your money is probably doing no more than keeping pace with inflation .
4 What it means in practice is that just as a wife has no entitlement to supplementary benefit ( SB ) in her own right — her husband must claim for her as his ‘ dependant ’ — so a single woman living with a male lover may be denied SB and required to look to him for support .
5 What is surprising is that just for a change , some of this talk is being turned into action .
6 All I know is that probably during the course of the year something will happen and I might have to chip in you know , a thousand pounds or a million pounds or whatever , but I do n't know how much it 's going to be .
7 But I think that sex can be a fleeting thing and sometimes I believe that if it is that alone as the basis of a relationship , then all the finer and better qualities are thrown out of the window .
8 But the fact is that gradually from the heyday of the detective story in the 1920s , " 30s and " 40s new tendencies crept in .
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