Example sentences of "[noun] is that [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The thinking is that cyclists and pedestrians , though not always comfortable companions , stand to gain more by tolerating each other in mutual exclusion of the car than by continuing traditional attitudes which will prevent a full realisation of the benefits to town centres of encouraging the soft modes of transport .
2 The logical result of such thinking is that parents feel largely responsible when things go wrong .
3 Normally referred to as ‘ incident reporting systems ’ , the basic reasoning is that incidents warn of shortcomings in aviation practice which will develop into possible accidents and loss of life or injury if preventive action is not taken .
4 The paradigm underlying this family of methods is that patterns or clusters appear nonrandomly in the training set , for some unknown underlying reason .
5 One objection made against West German party , lists is that MdBs chosen from them are not directly answerable to the electorate .
6 These days the official recommendation is that babies should have only milk up to at least three months , preferably four , and that weaning can begin any time between four and six months .
7 Thus lower costs and prices arising from R&D or physical investment are beneficial : the loss is that prices might have been even lower had entry not been deterred .
8 The result is that women typically become ‘ equal ’ by having to do more , to stretch themselves to work as hard as a man , even when experiencing bodily processes that a male has never experienced .
9 The net result is that prices are often higher for houses in attractive and accessible villages , and much of the new housing built tends to be of a more expensive kind which maintains this feature .
10 The end result is that components with a 24-hour period are dominant , both in the environment and in the body clock , by the time the child has reached his fifth birthday .
11 The end result is that learners feel very discouraged because it makes them feel that they know less than they thought .
12 The unfortunate result is that farmers , angered by the attitude of the careless few , block footpaths or refuse access to such places as the dry valley of Gordale Beck to the many considerate walkers who respect not only the countryside but also the problems of the working community who for centuries have fought to make a living from the land .
13 The result is that farmers are not dipping their sheep .
14 The result is that GaAs based circuits work faster than silicon .
15 The result is that conflicts in one set of relationships , over a wide range of society , or over a long period of time , lead to the re-establishment of social cohesion ( 1955 : 2 ) .
16 If this definition is applied when reviewing surveillance studies the result is that cancers found earlier than eight years from onset or found in left sided colitis or a cancer found at colonoscopy performed for any reason other than surveillance ( such as rectal bleeding ) , can not be regarded as a success .
17 Another result is that firms make ‘ supernormal ’ profits ( profits in excess of those necessary to induce them to remain in the industry ) at consumers ' expense .
18 The interesting , though not necessarily plausible , feature of this result is that firms know that when the price falls below the critical level this is due to a random shock , because they know it pays no one to cheat , but nevertheless they must still go into the punishment phase to enforce the collusive agreement .
19 The result is that tasks such as redistribution , which in the fiscal federalism literature are seen as a prerogative of central government , may ( given the imperfections of the Tiebout mechanism and the informational requirements of administration ) be shown to be better pursued at a lower level of government when broader considerations are taken into account .
20 The result is that riders who want to avoid heatstroke have to wear as little as possible under their jackets and most of us men have n't got used to innocently looking round to see someone undoing her jacket to reveal nothing but a clingy bra underneath !
21 One result is that ministers are now routinely sacked by the handful .
22 The authors of the report , John Spicer and Philip Morrisey , say the result is that customers perceive beer prices as rising continuously , Beer is no longer considered good value for money .
23 The result is that systems at every level from the state to the small company are evaluated and policies are developed which are not sufficiently orientated to the needs and aspirations of the people within the system .
24 One way of thinking of this result is that variations in g cause simultaneous variations in the actual and the natural level of output : a higher value for g implies a lower natural and actual level of output .
25 The result is that men and women inhabit different leisure worlds ; in access to leisure activities , class is very much less important a variable than gender .
26 The result is that shops use a work-in-process inventory to buffer themselves against problems and uncertainties , a situation where each station has a long queue of semifinished elements .
27 The result is that needs and problems are wrongly diagnosed .
28 The net result is that enterprises with some form of linkage to the global market now account for the largest part of the global production structure — in raw materials , manufactures and services .
29 Teacher-training , all too often still embedded in traditional teaching techniques , does not offer teachers sufficient guidance for them to be able to adapt to the new requirements in the curriculum ; and the result is that pupils are inadequately guided , and projects and assignments are poorly executed .
30 The end result is that pupils switch off any interest in the school , and how they manage to go through five years of their school years still amazes me .
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