Example sentences of "[noun pl] is that [art] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 The most widely quoted medical ‘ fact ’ I hear at parties is that a moderate alcohol intake is good for you .
3 Another argument in favour of the provinces is that the steady decentralisation of justice from London naturally increases the importance of the provincial Bar .
4 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 .
5 The best news for schools is that a special price is available making it possible for schools to acquire the discs , a laser vision player and an Acorn Archimedes computer for £899 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 As the BSI 's Chris Sheldon , says : ‘ The challenge for many companies is that a new aspect of business life , the environment , is being entered on to the balance sheet for the first time .
9 The danger for almost all golfers is that the right side tends to be dominant at the start of the downswing .
10 The buzz among senior Conservatives is that the quiet campaign on behalf of MacGregor is not going well .
11 The reason behind all of the red tape even under normal circumstances is that a legal process is being implemented .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 So the point erm I wish to make erm on er Mr 's observations , is that it 's not the strategy of the structure plan was not simply erm to seek an initial reduction erm in the rate of residential development in the county and then that roll that rate forward in progressive erm amendments to the structure plan , Hambleton District Council believes that the logical interpretation of these statements is that a progressive reduction er in house building and the rates of migration should be sought through subsequent alterations to the plan .
15 The general impression of investigators is that the great majority of the graduates , in spite of certain difficulties , enjoy their work .
16 One of the major drawbacks is that no good bowel contrast agent is commercially available and it is therefore frequently difficult to distinguish tumour from loops of bowel .
17 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 .
18 One of the reasons why the polytechnics have done so well in the past 21 years is that a clear decision was taken by Governments of both parties to separate funding and quality control .
19 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 .
20 One difficulty of primary sources is that a purist definition tends to suggest that the writer has personally collected the information .
21 An all too common kind of crisis for community and primary care teams is that a vulnerable patient is suddenly discharged from hospital on a Friday afternoon without any formal referral or plan for aftercare .
22 The assumption made in empirical studies is that a selective excise is passed on fully , and that there is no change in factor incomes , which in the present context means , and .
23 The problem with price discrimination in goods is that a secondary market is likely to be established in which low-price customers resell to higher-price customers , thus tending to equalize the prices customers actually pay .
24 The danger with accepting that cats have a hundred different sounds is that the whole subject becomes too complicated to make much sense .
25 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 .
26 The advantage of the design of these experiments is that the critical comparison is made within-subjects .
27 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 .
28 One factor that unites all of these theories is that no computational system exists which is able to cope with unrestricted English .
29 What this means in geometric terms is that a Minkowski frame matches the structure of real space–time locally , but not globally .
30 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 .
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