Example sentences of "[noun pl] is that the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ( 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 . ) |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | One of my arguments is that the mechanical relations of work can bring about this withdrawal . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The danger for such grand schemes is that the developed countries will think up targets for the rest of the world to meet , without fully considering the implications for their own domestic policies . |
| 10 | Another irritation with the current crop of fax modems is that the two parts of the modem do n't cooperate with one another . |
| 11 | A stronger indication still of the difference between sense-qualifiers and referent-qualifiers is that the former examples will remain odd even when the relevant noun is indicated by the context ( yet there will be no problem with the referent-qualifiers ) : ( 15 ) that stranger is a total one the kid was a mere one ( 16 ) his hut is a rudimentary one the tree felled was a deciduous one Again we may note that the other pair of sense-qualifying adjectives from example ( 1 ) do not sound odd when used with an indefinite head : ( 17 ) a lawful one the distant one but this is not surprising because they are adjectives with more than one meaning ; in one of these they are ordinary referent-qualifiers and hence they may quite freely occur in ( 17 ) with a presumption that the referent-qualifying meaning is the one desired . |