Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] is that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most striking finding is that individuals which most frequently gave aid are those which most frequently receive it . |
| 2 | Since perfect learning of a new language or dialect is very rare beyond the age of , say , fourteen , ( see the discussion in the last section ; also Trudgill 1986 : 34 ; Romaine 1984 : 190ff ) , the usual result is that S 's personal variety shows some features of V1 ( the variety of S 's " native " community ) and some features of V2 . |
| 3 | A possible future is that regions will pass away and districts amalgamate to make contracts for more specialist services — tertiary care . |
| 4 | One practical reason for the literal rule is that judges are now deeply afraid of being accused of making political judgments at variance with the purpose of Parliament when it passed the Act . |
| 5 | I needed to get my papers round before the weekend so that colleagues would have the opportunity to read them — the usual rule is that papers should be circulated to ministers seven days before a meeting . |
| 6 | The popular stereotype is that carers are perceived as a ‘ good thing ’ , a group who are exploited by the state because their essentially unpaid labour forms the basis of current community care arrangements . |
| 7 | Apart from that , it 's only used in the beginnings of words , and the , the one clear rule is that s followed by a t is printed in this way . |
| 8 | The basic differences between them in respect of their value to architectural study is that Ostia was occupied and developed over a much longer period , from the fourth century B.C. to the third century A.D. , and that it was not a provincial city but the port of Rome and , as such , became more important , as is evidenced by its buildings . |
| 9 | The reason why at present independence is thought to be achievable only by involving a different force is that investigations of police operations typically involve suspicion of malpractice . |
| 10 | The most significant change , therefore , in the top half is that funds for the Family Practitioner Services will pass through the Regional Health Authorities , before being distributed to the Family Practitioner Committees . |
| 11 | One interesting point is that signals for both directions pass through both microphones and both earpieces . |
| 12 | Another interesting point is that measurements of the velocity dispersion of the galaxies in HCG62 suggest that they have drifted inwards by a factor of about three compared with the dark matter . |
| 13 | The fiscal argument is that welfare state benefits for the poor cost relatively less in the more affluent States , because they are drawing on a larger tax base ; the higher the average income in a State , the smaller the effort required to finance a programme at a given level of payments ( because presumably there will be both fewer recipients plus more rich people to tax than in States with low average incomes ) . |
| 14 | May feels that one of the biggest problems in old age is that people think of you as all the same . |
| 15 | The curious feature of the British constitution is that Britain has democratized institutions that were created in an undemocratic age . |
| 16 | The message of this popular song is that sounds are used by different people in different ways . |
| 17 | The reaction of the British Government is that volunteers should n't get involved . |
| 18 | The interesting thing is that Lord Leverhulme , who was so far ahead of his contemporaries in so many ways , missed two essential elements in the situation . |
| 19 | However , a more severely structuralist idea in social science is that explanations of social phenomena should be made without reference to the intentions of individuals . |
| 20 | ‘ The peculiar thing is that Blackbeard seemed ready to murder us for a wallet with a few fivers in it , all of which he was going to give to his bruiser , anyway . |
| 21 | The problem with using thalamic nuclei as a guide to cortical organization is that primates have a thalamic nucleus , with extensive cortical projections , for which there is no clearly identifiable homologue in other species . |
| 22 | The funny thing is that people just have n't noticed yet . |
| 23 | ( The funny thing is that Jack 's father never knew when his birthday was either . |
| 24 | One interesting feature is that entries labelled ‘ to-do ’ follow the user throughout the calendar until they are checked off . |
| 25 | Our guiding principle is that pupils with special educational needs should , as far as possible , have the opportunity to experience the full range of the English curriculum , but we make some broad recommendations for modifications to attainment targets , programmes of study and assessment arrangements which we feel may nevertheless be necessary . |
| 26 | The cost of this extended power is that governors will be liable to defend their decision before an industrial tribunal . |
| 27 | The British view is that Mr Attali 's plan to spend new money lacks detail . |
| 28 | The salient fact is that Wigg believed , and believed with great intensity , that Profumo had lied to him and for that reason was a suitable object for punishment in fanning the flame of the sexual scandal . |
| 29 | Throughout most of those countries the universal view is that Britain should do more to enhance its reputation through the fund . |
| 30 | The official French view is that BSE will inevitably spread to France , manifesting itself in " spontaneous " cases with an incubation period of between two and nine years . |