Example sentences of "[is] that [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I do worry about is that one day , somebody 's going to find me out . |
| 2 | But their real hope is that one day they 'll be able to take them home . |
| 3 | Implied in the diagram is that one LECTURER can give more than one COURSE ( Fred , for example , gives business studies and computer science ) and one COURSE is given by more than one LECTURER ( maths by Tom and Dave , for example ) — a many-to-many relationship . |
| 4 | Smith says the message from Soviet data is that one year is the most people can take . |
| 5 | ( i ) " Active Play " discs ( CAV : Constant Angular Velocity ) The essential property of these for education is that one revolution of the disc produces one frame of video at any point on the disc . |
| 6 | One reason is that one clue for recession-watchers , the build-up of manufactured stocks ( inventories ) , is not much of a guide to a financial recession . |
| 7 | The essential point , then , is that one person 's ‘ common sense ’ is somebody else 's nonsense , and there are numerous examples of sociological and anthropological investigation questioning and exploding many common-sense notions about behaviour . |
| 8 | What they have in common is that one person 's actions have direct costs or benefits for other people which that individual does not take into account . |
| 9 | One commentator suggests that : " the essence of agency is that one person is entrusted with the power to act for another in that other 's interest , a clause enabling him without warning on a particular occasion to act in his own interest , or in the interest of another principal , seems plainly inconsistent with the whole nature of fiduciary responsibility . " |
| 10 | Another puzzle is that one kind of large reptile survived — the crocodiles . |
| 11 | The typical pattern is that one box will show more ticks than any of the others , but there may be one or two further boxes with scores not far behind . |
| 12 | The general rule is that one tenant can not enforce covenants contained in another tenant 's lease , but there are a number of exceptions being mainly as follows : ( 1 ) Where a tenant has taken an assignment from the landlord of the benefit of a covenant entered into by a tenant of other premises ; ( 2 ) Where various tenants or their predecessors in title have entered into a mutual deed of covenant ( in which case each can enforce the covenants against the others ) ; ( 3 ) Where the estate has been laid out under a common scheme for building ( known as a building scheme ) and the leases have been taken pursuant to that scheme ; ( 4 ) Where there is a letting scheme , which is similar to a building scheme , but there need be no physical laying out of the estate . |
| 13 | What both texts indicate is that one explanation of this state of affairs may be a failure of resolve on the English side , an internal lethargy . |
| 14 | A crucial factor is that one witness 's evidence , though plausible , may be rejected because it is contradicted by another witness whose evidence is accepted as being beyond doubt . |
| 15 | The unwritten rule of this knowledge/power game is that one set of rather benign standards are applied to texts produced by ‘ ethnic ’ writers ( black , Jewish , Irish etc. ) and other far more critical ones to work produced by those who lack such ‘ authorizations ’ . |
| 16 | The danger of not including a statement of subject to contract is that one party may subsequently argue that the heads are a binding agreement either as the main contract or as a collateral contract . |
| 17 | It is , of course , quite obvious once we stop to think about it that the important difference between those that produced the cold and those that did not is that one group was susceptible to it whilst the other one was not . |
| 18 | The effect of one cycle of this algorithm is that one node and its near neighbours are moved closer to the current input . |
| 19 | Another straw the optimists grasp is that two trade disputes between the EC and the United States have been headed off . |