Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] be that [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the biggest problems for Ferguson is that opponents always raise their game against Manchester United . |
| 2 | The implication for teaching is that texts or situations should not be devised where only the next level of ‘ difficulty ’ is provided , since these are not necessary . |
| 3 | The singular virtue of action-research is that things could not be left at that — it was necessary to go on and do something about it all . |
| 4 | A major strength of Henley is that students are drawn from all over the world and bring with them knowledge of many different cultures . |
| 5 | ‘ The first rule of banking is that bankers lend to those they trust . |
| 6 | The point about this particular division of labour was that women , being outside the union and ignorant of the traditional battles over fat and lean , willingly complied with the work arrangements of the employers . |
| 7 | The paradigm underlying this family of methods is that patterns or clusters appear nonrandomly in the training set , for some unknown underlying reason . |
| 8 | Milne said : ‘ The beauty of rugby is that fans have always been able to have a pint afterwards . |
| 9 | One of the dangers of majoritarianism is that majorities are always apt to forget that in another context they might constitute a minority . |
| 10 | A useful rule of documentaries is that re-creations of scenes which occurred before filming always leave the viewer feeling cheated . |
| 11 | We further agree with retributivists , denunciationists and Justice Model theorists that one valid general principle for the distribution of punishment is that offenders should be punished at least roughly in proportion to the moral gravity of their offences . |
| 12 | The essential difference between these two types of rights is that options are short-term , having lives of up to 9 months in the case of traded options and 3 months in the case of non-traded options . |
| 13 | Rivers ( 1964 ) tells us that the essence of this type of behaviour is that responses are connected to a cue from the leader ( the teacher ) . |
| 14 | A further advantage of COMMUNlTEL is that pages of information can be downloaded from Prestel and saved for further use with , for example , business studies or economics classes or the Prestel pages can be edited for school use . |
| 15 | Similarly , although Wilde ( 1988 ) claims that a potentially variable level of subjective risk is necessary for RHT , a prediction of RHT is that subjects would modify their behaviour in order to actually experience constant levels of subjective risk which would only alter if they changed their ‘ target level of risk ’ . |
| 16 | As we have seen , the formal liberal democratic theory of bureaucracies was that officials ( sometimes called bureaucrats or civil servants ) simply implement the policies that their political masters — the representatives of the people — present to them in the form of laws and regulations . |
| 17 | Another aspect of Qaddafi 's theory of democracy is that parties were forbidden because they could only represent , and could represent only sectors of the people . |
| 18 | The criterion of distortion is that statements are made about the society which by social-scientific methods can be shown to be positively in error , whereas selectivity [ i.e. primary selectivity ] is involved where the statements are , at the proper level , ‘ true ’ , but do not constitute a balanced account of the available truth . |
| 19 | A second reason for doubting that genes were made of DNA was that proteins are chemically much more interesting , and it was already known that at least some genetic abnormalities are caused by the absence of specific proteins . |
| 20 | One advantage of this range of programs is that teachers or groups of teachers could produce local teaching materials for themselves . |
| 21 | The initial and understandable — impression of teachers was that children were thriving on country life . |
| 22 | A recurrent problem encountered in investigations of processes is that measurements and analysis are conducted for a detailed level near the climatological station , in the soil pit or on an erosion plot , whereas many potential applications of process studies depend upon knowledge at a much greater spatial scale and possibly that of the world level . |
| 23 | The crucial point in this deductive piece of science was that corals grow only in shallow water ; the theory became generally accepted , and helped to make Darwin 's name as a geologist . |
| 24 | A principle of APL is that individuals can be assessed for their competence without regard for time , place or method of learning . |
| 25 | One of the many alienating features of unemployment is that weekends lose their magic . |
| 26 | It was not an unhelpful intervention , Mr. Deputy Speaker , because one of the problems in dealing with the targeting of advertising is that advertisements aimed at adults will be less effective than the Minister may wish if they take account of the fact that children may be present . |
| 27 | A consistent finding of studies of depression is that rates for women are approximately double that for males of similar groups ( see Figure 5.3 ) . |
| 28 | We will postpone discussion of the extraclausals until Chapter 9 , but a reliable and well-justified rule of thumb is that extraclausals , unlike postverbals , are always equivalent , in their semantic effect , to otherwise similar constructions where the adjective appears in initial position . |
| 29 | One reason the idea might seem odd in the case of stones is that stones are not living material . |
| 30 | Perhaps the only genuine conclusion that can be made at this particular time of flux is that arts teachers are generally receptive to the introduction of new approaches to assessing children 's work , but only if these developments can be seen to have a positive value in helping children to be more articulate about their strengths and weaknesses , and are therefore essentially formative in character . |