Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] is [vb pp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the second exercise , in which groups are required to come up with ideas about how to improve education , force of personality ensures that she is elected as chairman , in which capacity she proposes new local authorities to supervise the schools , ‘ from which councillors would be banned . ’ |
| 2 | But we can not trust this wife 's claim that she is starved of cash by her husband . |
| 3 | Assumptions that she is driven by pity ( usually based on the death of her brother Philip from an Aids-related illness in 1986 ) annoy her . |
| 4 | The protagonist is one Sissy Hankshaw who uses the fact that she is afflicted with elephantiasis of the thumbs to hitch-hike round America . |
| 5 | For example , in the educational dimension , the aims for a child aged 3–4 are that s/he is provided with opportunities for intellectual growth and pre-school learning and is well-prepared for starting school . |
| 6 | Lord Ackner referred , at p. 827 , to the function of the visitor as being the supervision ‘ of the internal rules of the foundation so that it is governed in accordance with those private laws which the founder has laid down … ’ |
| 7 | The structure of the international economy — that it is shaped by relations between national economies , each with their own dynamic , and it is characterized by one national economy in a hegemonic position . |
| 8 | The departmental affiliation of such a course does n't much matter provided that it is taught by people with relevant research experience . |
| 9 | The reality of the process of change is that it is conducted in context . |
| 10 | It is well worth visiting and contains facsimiles of many fine and interesting manuscripts , but be prepared for the fact that it is geared to schools and is therefore rather didactic . |
| 11 | Some scientists believe that it is caused by water pollution . |
| 12 | In recent years , there has been some return to the classical view that the real wage is too high and that unemployment is ‘ voluntary ’ in the sense that it is caused by workers refusing to accept wage cuts . |
| 13 | The scent trail of the ant is released as a liquid ( which evaporates ) on the ground ; but it is known that it is perceived by scent rather than taste . |
| 14 | He presumably wants to say that the idea that there can be a general definition of the economic sphere is a residue of the classical claim that it is defined in terms of some universal trait such as human needs . |
| 15 | However , the major weakness of the Keynesian theory of the demand for money is that it is couched in terms of a choice simply between money and bonds . |
| 16 | ‘ It has been described to me as an isolated house in the midst of fields , through which are only rough and rutty waggon tracks , and I have been told too , that it is hidden from passers along the road by a dark grove of trees . |
| 17 | All other sources used by d'Indy show that it is intended for strings alone . |
| 18 | We are told that federalism means different things to different people , that it is a benign arrangement which does not centralise but pushes power downwards to the people and the regions and that it is based on subsidiarity . |
| 19 | The problem with this approach however is that it is based on opportunism rather than commitment . |
| 20 | The most obvious is that it helps you prepare your position so that it is based on facts rather than speculation or wishful thinking . |
| 21 | But it is difficult to get there and to find people being tortured ; it is such a horrible activity that it is done in secret . |
| 22 | It is currently a prerequisite of a qualifying corporate bond that it is expressed in sterling and contains no provision for conversion into , or redemption in , a currency other than sterling . |
| 23 | The problem is that the company has only limited ISDN capacity at the moment because of the way that it is implemented at telephone exchanges . |
| 24 | We grabbed the baby from her cot and crouched down in the hall of our house , thankful that it is made of concrete rather than wood . |
| 25 | The fact that it is made by men with no faces and only two fingers each merely makes it all the more remarkable . |
| 26 | The quality of dried pasta varies enormously — always check that it is made from durum wheat . |
| 27 | Citizens have an obligation to obey law by virtue of the fact that it is made in accordance with established procedures . |
| 28 | The design process must be managed so that it is completed to quality within cost and time targets and with all necessary decisions having been taken and expressed fully and clearly in specifications and drawings . |
| 29 | But this rule is not so simple as at first sight it looks , for it means , not that priority is gained by registration , but that it is lost through failure to register . |
| 30 | Eliot does not see primitive religion as a necessary basis for Christianity , ‘ I do not believe that Christianity germinates out of natural religion , but that it is given by revelation . ’ |