Example sentences of "[noun sg] is that [adv] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A second and smaller reason for attending to causation is that too dramatic conceptions of it , such as those which connect it with certain images or ideas of power , or fate or plan , or compulsion , or logical connection , distort one 's responses to determinism . |
| 2 | The result is that more working-class sons can move up while fewer middle-class boys need to move down ; the middle-class boy still has four times the chance of getting a managerial or professional job compared with a manual worker 's son . |
| 3 | One of the difficulties of long-term weather forecasting is that very fine details at one time can govern major patterns at a later time . |
| 4 | The most important point is that rather flat-lying arrays can be generated by feasible mixing models despite the involvement of a plume endmember with fairly high Nd . |
| 5 | One concern with any meta-analysis is that statistically non-significant studies are less likely to be submitted for publication and hence that the results of combining published studies is biased towards a positive effect . |
| 6 | Another difficulty with the hot-spot model is that unrealistically large increases in heat flow are apparently required to explain the magnitude of uplift recorded in some regions . |
| 7 | Third , the myth persists that private enterprise , unfettered by legal constraints , could fill the void in transport provision , but the risk is that only profitable routes will be maintained . |
| 8 | The inference to be drawn from the first part of his letter is that once Roman Catholics are in a voting majority they will automatically vote for a United Ireland . |
| 9 | The hope is that unusually fruitful conferences such as this one , in which a course in the basics of immunology preceded seminars on the latest developments , and in which the participants in most part came from areas badly affected by the disease , will show us the way forward . |
| 10 | An alternative possibility is that electrically active axons release substances such as K + or glutamate that potentiate the mitogenic effect of PDGF or other growth factors . |
| 11 | The problem is that normally potential purchasers have to incur the expense of undertaking surveys and arranging mortgage finance , without any idea whether they will be able to afford the final selling price . |