Example sentences of "[noun pl] be that the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the signs are that the upward curve is levelling out . |
| 2 | Mr Gordon in your erm opening remarks you referred to the fact that erm following the programme re-orientation I think you words were that the full government are now capping their liabilities on the programme . |
| 3 | Over at Ibrox , the news for their fans is that the long injury list is continuing to shorten . |
| 4 | Another argument in favour of the provinces is that the steady decentralisation of justice from London naturally increases the importance of the provincial Bar . |
| 5 | A major point emerging from our analysis of language/network relationships is that the variable network needs to be considered in relation to the variable sex of speaker . |
| 6 | The effect of these two prescriptions was that the principal repayments of loans raised were taken off the balance sheet and put through the revenue account . |
| 7 | The industrial tribunal found that the reason for the dismissals was that the managing director was strongly anti-union but that none of the four could show that the reason for his dismissal was his own union membership or activities . |
| 8 | The result of these strong words was that the irksome proviso was deleted and the new lease agreed . |
| 9 | The only real grumbles are that the tagging system does n't go far enough , a column and page breaking tag is essential , and that the keyboard shortcuts for the PC version seem to have been changed from the earlier version . |
| 10 | The other feature of these keys is that the actual characters which separate the species can easily be assessed ; helping both to improve the key and assess the real difference between species . |
| 11 | One of the puzzling features of these areas is that the receptive field properties of their cells appear to repeat properties already present in primary visual cortex . |
| 12 | The difference between the two countries is that the formal wording of the United States Constitution can be amended only by an extraordinary process , i.e. , one that goes beyond the provisions employed for amending the ordinary law . |
| 13 | The danger for almost all golfers is that the right side tends to be dominant at the start of the downswing . |
| 14 | Given this , it is impossible to avoid the idea that another part of the difference between the causal items and their effects is that the causal items exist at a time when their effects do not . |
| 15 | The buzz among senior Conservatives is that the quiet campaign on behalf of MacGregor is not going well . |
| 16 | One important assumption of the modernity/postmodernity controversies is that the political left of Marxists and critical Theorists is aligned with the modernists , whereas those ( especially French-influenced poststructuralists ) who connect somehow to postmodernism are apolitical and have little concern with contemporaneous social struggles . |
| 17 | For me , one of the most useful functions is that the 9000 program allows a knitter to match the screen colours almost exactly to the yarns in use , by the use of the PALETTE section of the menu . |
| 18 | Mr Lilley said the message he had received from local businessmen was that the economic recovery was well underway . |
| 19 | ‘ My expectations are that the three athletes will be free , ’ he added . |
| 20 | The general impression of investigators is that the great majority of the graduates , in spite of certain difficulties , enjoy their work . |
| 21 | The reason for reducing the event 's costs is that the less money which is spent on the gig means that more money goes to the artist . |
| 22 | The major reason given for the closure of railway lines and stations was that the 1950s modernization plan for the railways had had little effect on stemming an ever-rising deficit in running costs . |
| 23 | Last November the consensus among Cologne 's younger art dealers was that the annual Art Fair had become too much of an good thing . |
| 24 | The disadvantages are that the single battery has less stamina than a pod of AAs giving the same voltage , and the female terminal can splay ( or the segments fold under if the battery is installed carelessly ) . |
| 25 | The nature of the disciplinary sanctions on which the system rests is that the modern MP is heavily reliant on the support of party activists and party finance in order to be elected . |
| 26 | ( The main difference between the two studies is that the American forecasters assume a fairly high level of growth in total employment while the British researchers are more pessimistic , predicting that employment over the 10 years will fall by 3 per cent . ) |
| 27 | The danger with accepting that cats have a hundred different sounds is that the whole subject becomes too complicated to make much sense . |
| 28 | One of the difficulties is that the Angolan understanding of the agreement reached in June was that Mr Savimbi should not remain in Angola while elections are held , though he might return later . |
| 29 | The advantage of the design of these experiments is that the critical comparison is made within-subjects . |
| 30 | As Docherty said : ‘ The problem caused by the tendency in user organisations to hive off IT to specialist managers is that the real users and decision-makers within them are isolated . |