Example sentences of "[noun pl] [is] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thing with protest songs is that pop 's always been about the immediate , spontaneous and puerile , it has n't the patience to slog through sub-committees and lobbying and making orderly demands through the proper channels . |
| 2 | The advantage of using hybrid methods is that high-order Markov dependencies do not have to be introduced because accuracy is ensured by using the dictionary . |
| 3 | What is inadmissible in Lukacs 's eyes is any impoverishment of this historical complexity . |
| 4 | Vacuums is that vacuum |
| 5 | Energy conservation in our homes is another way that the world 's huge waste of commercial energy can be reduced without actually producing discomfort for anybody . |
| 6 | On their account , the thrust of the rule-following considerations is that rule-following is a practice , a custom or a way of behaving . |
| 7 | What is beyond disputes is that Battle produces the kind of seamless , creamy sound , and faultless intonation that recalls the girlish purity of Gundula Janowitz at the very height of her powers , and Perlman turns on all his customary warmth and charm from which even his relatively close positioning can not detract . |
| 8 | As Mass Observation noted , " One very vital effect of the air-raids is this blurring of the future . |
| 9 | The real difficulty for insurers is that settlement of a claim for provisional damages is significantly more difficult than for an ordinary action . |
| 10 | One of the words that the Bible uses most often to describe a Christian 's relationships is this word ‘ respect ’ . |
| 11 | I think that one of the most confusing aspects is this word corporates , what 's a national account corporate , what 's a national account |
| 12 | Typical of his dramatic handling of words is this passage from ‘ Quanto piu m'arde ’ ( published in 1540 ) . |
| 13 | The result with present 3-D pictures is that foreground objects tend to look flat — ‘ cut out of cardboard ’ is the common expression — because the viewer can not look round an object by moving his head . |
| 14 | AMONG the super savings is this voucher which admits up to four people to the American Adventure Theme Park for just £3 each . |
| 15 | Whether the Princess of Wales will still sit on its cars is another question . |
| 16 | Another argument for fatter bonuses is that pay tied to performance encourages managers to act in shareholders ' interests . |
| 17 | One powerful message put across by the curriculum in most schools is that knowledge can be divided into compartments . |
| 18 | One of the things I again would like to see in schools is that sort of approach , which brings out what language is really about , and I think that that 's an exciting and possibly quite unexpected outcome of bringing computers into schools , but it will require that we do n't simply think of it as being ‘ oh , let's have a micro in the science lab ’ ; it is going to be as the government seems to recognise , a step involving curriculum design , involving helping teachers _ really , really helping them in a strongly supportive way — to do something which is , I would say , revolutionary . |
| 19 | Finding suitable schools is another problem facing expatriates coming to Britain . |
| 20 | Cutting bricks is another fault of Russ , it 's all commonsense actually if you think about it , I mean actually we 've drove round at night looking at people 's walls and things like that and some were absolutely appalling , they 've obviously paid money to have that done , so you , you , you can see it do n't have to be absolutely perfect |
| 21 | It is easy to inject a mouse to stimulate its B cells , but injecting a human with something just to create monoclonal antibodies is another matter . |
| 22 | One of the arguments used against a significant ROM scavenging role for the aminosalicylates is that 4-ASA , while clinically effective , is less efficient in scavenging ROM than 5-ASA . |
| 23 | One of the problems with consultation over several different language versions and many subject areas is that revision becomes slow and difficult to coordinate . |
| 24 | The good news for developing countries is that change has opened up unforeseen opportunities . |
| 25 | The extraction of expensively heated warm air from the laboratory through fume cupboards is another area of concern . |
| 26 | The first implication to draw from these models is that diversification within a national market can not eliminate the risk due to the market . |
| 27 | The mixed doubles is another throwback to a different age , with the men and women now spending most of their careers following separate paths around the world . |
| 28 | The strange brooding power and expectation in some of Moore 's statues is this emotion , carved and chiselled into stone . |
| 29 | Choosing healthier versions of food such as lower-fat sausages or chips is another way of making meals a bit healthier and how you cook food makes a difference too — grilling or baking instead of roasting or frying , for instance . |
| 30 | Another justification for having separate ‘ public order ’ offences is that group activities of this kind may , over and above the features discussed above , constitute a special threat to law enforcement and the political system . |