Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [is] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the few things about the penal system that almost everyone agrees on is that England and Wales have an alarmingly high ( and most of the time rapidly rising ) number of people in prison . |
| 2 | The one thing all readers are likely to agree on is that Derrida is a very difficult writer , whether he is read in French or in English translation . |
| 3 | What Firth is pointing out is that sentences as artificial constructs for exemplifying linguistic forms do not meet the same conditions of making sense as do expressions naturally used in the service of communication in context . |
| 4 | Therefore , the condition for that balance of restraint from which we started out is that W < D , that is the value of winning the resource must be less than the cost of injury . |
| 5 | As police search for a motive for the killing , one possibility they have n't ruled out is that Mr Miles could have disturbed a burglar . |
| 6 | For the one characteristic organization theorists ( Blau and Scott 1962 ; Etzioni 1961 ; Parsons 1963 ) agree on is that corporations , like all organizations , are primarily orientated towards the achievement of a particular goal — profit — at least in the long run . |
| 7 | The principle I work on is that passages of colour are more rewarding than the dot effect . |
| 8 | The first thing that comes through is that Charlie Francis is a very good coach . |