Example sentences of "this [noun sg] is that [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What attracts many scientists to this hypothesis is that those perturbations of the orbits of Neptune and Pluto have yet to be explained satisfactorily in any other way . |
| 2 | One additional feature of the responses to tasks exemplifying this criterion is that many pupils refer to 3-D shapes by the names of their faces , i.e. " a cube " may be referred to as " a square " , or a pyramid as a " triangle " . |
| 3 | Each of these has changed substantially in the post-war period , but the central argument of this chapter is that such changes can not be seen as the result only of changes within the UK . |
| 4 | One of the results of this difference is that such accents have different pronunciations for the two members of pairs of words that are pronounced identically ( i.e. are homophones ) in RP , e.g. ‘ won ’ and ‘ one ’ , ‘ nun ’ and ‘ none ’ . |
| 5 | The nub of this criticism is that such views give rise to a kind of political paralysis : everything must wait until the revolutionary moment in which the production relations are transformed ; until then labour must play a purely oppositional role , a role which Precludes struggle of a ‘ prefigurative ’ kind . |
| 6 | A consequence of this approach is that many managers within one division will not know what is important to another division , as well as the overall corporation . |
| 7 | The main difficulty of this interpretation is that all traces of the actual cella have been lost ( his p. 18 ) . |
| 8 | The implication of this note is that most readers did not want to hear that anything was wrong , and that Wordsworth 's doubts about the growth of industry show original thinking on his part . |