Example sentences of "[noun pl] is that [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One disadvantage of this to all parties is that over a long period memories fade and evidence becomes more difficult to establish . |
| 2 | An important difference between conventional statistics and statistics of grain size distributions is that in the former frequency is expressed as numbers whereas in the latter it is as weight percentage . |
| 3 | One of the conclusions that can be drawn from the responses is that despite the increased provision of online information services by a range of organisations including Aberdeen City library , the Scottish Council and others , the level of awareness and potential of such information sources is still low . |
| 4 | The characteristic of all those areas is that for a long time they have been Labour controlled , although Conservatives have been in control in Brent for the past year and the Liberal Democrats have recently been in control in Tower Hamlets . |
| 5 | Possibly the earliest mention of what are probably Anglo-Saxon graves is that by the thirteenth-century chronicler Roger of Wendover in his Flores Historiarum where he describes the excavation by monks of St Albans in 1178 of ten human skeletons at Redbourne , Hertfordshire , believing some of them to be the bones of St Amphibalus ( Hewlett 1886 , 115 ) . |
| 6 | Thus it has been suggested that a key difference between invertebrate and vertebrate brains is that in the former a great deal of power and responsibility could be invested in a single cell or even synapse which in the vertebrate nervous system would be more widely distributed . |
| 7 | One obvious limitation of local authority-run centres is that unlike the independent centres they can not help local authority tenants and homeless applicants fight legal battles against the authority . |
| 8 | Another factor which may influence the chances of conventional videodisc players is that in the 1990s , the collection of high quality , permanent recordings of movies and other programming might appeal in a way it never could in the early 1980s . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , and the reason we 've got no morals is that for a long time ( 150 years ) we 've been at a loose end . ' |
| 10 | The prime difference between the multi-male and uni-male groups is that in the latter sexually maturing males quickly leave the reproductive unit . |
| 11 | One of the very satisfying factors is that despite the difficult times that some companies are facing , they are continuing with their sponsorship of the arts , often in partnership with my office , through the business sponsorship incentive scheme award . |