Example sentences of "[noun pl] is [that] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over at Ibrox , the news for their fans is that the long injury list is continuing to shorten . |
| 2 | Another argument in favour of the provinces is that the steady decentralisation of justice from London naturally increases the importance of the provincial Bar . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The danger for almost all golfers is that the right side tends to be dominant at the start of the downswing . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The buzz among senior Conservatives is that the quiet campaign on behalf of MacGregor is not going well . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The general impression of investigators is that the great majority of the graduates , in spite of certain difficulties , enjoy their work . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ( 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 . ) |
| 16 | The danger with accepting that cats have a hundred different sounds is that the whole subject becomes too complicated to make much sense . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The advantage of the design of these experiments is that the critical comparison is made within-subjects . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | There are many reasons why , in the early nineteenth century , different considerations would intrude on the modelling of a dissected female body rather than that of a male , but one conclusion we could draw from these figures is that the human norm is male , and the only reason to look at female bodies is for that which makes them female , i.e. the reproductive system . |
| 21 | The problem for the Free Presbyterians is that the fraternal orders have always seen themselves as linking the broad Protestant religious tradition with the main unionist party , hence the common arrangement of Orange Lodges holding their annual church parades at each of the Church of Ireland , Presbyterian , and Methodist churches in turn . |
| 22 | The concept 's importance in theoretical terms is that the epic poet catches himself dreaming , and tries to communicate his dream to the rest of the group , through a mythic poem , or a ritual drama . |
| 23 | One of my arguments is that the mechanical relations of work can bring about this withdrawal . |
| 24 | A remaining problem with substitutions for unknown characters is that the resulting candidates can not be ordered by likelihood of being correct , because the word could equally well be any of them . |
| 25 | Where I think the problem lies is that the Victorian age was one which stressed personal salvation and the individual soul . |
| 26 | A variation on this theme is that a consequence of the preeminence of business interests is that the fundamental ingredients of the capitalist system , notably private ownership of the means of production and the rules of the ‘ free market ’ , are afforded a protected status . |
| 27 | Also acting against Britain 's interests is that the previous director general before Quistgaard hailed from these isles . |
| 28 | The clear view of both miners and my hon. Friends is that the proposed abolition of the 1908 Act is to pave the way for privatisation by deregulating vital safety provisions and allowing the employer to introduce an extended normal working day in the guise of a flexible shift . |
| 29 | Another view of modern scholars is that the New Testament Devil and his demons became augmented by the fathers of the patristic era and were made even more devilish , as it were , than they are in the Bible . |
| 30 | For immediate purposes what is important about this and similar procedures is that the theoretical generalisation is induced from systematically gathered data . |