Example sentences of "[noun pl] is that the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Over at Ibrox , the news for their fans is that the long injury list is continuing to shorten .
2 Another argument in favour of the provinces is that the steady decentralisation of justice from London naturally increases the importance of the provincial Bar .
3 A major point emerging from our analysis of language/network relationships is that the variable network needs to be considered in relation to the variable sex of speaker .
4 The other feature of these keys is that the actual characters which separate the species can easily be assessed ; helping both to improve the key and assess the real difference between species .
5 Pending discovery and/or the administration of interrogatories the best particulars the plaintiff is able to give of such transactions is that the third to fifth defendants were knowingly concerned in each and every transaction of which the following payments and each of them represent the proceeds of such transactions namely : …
6 One of the puzzling features of these areas is that the receptive field properties of their cells appear to repeat properties already present in primary visual cortex .
7 The difference between the two countries is that the formal wording of the United States Constitution can be amended only by an extraordinary process , i.e. , one that goes beyond the provisions employed for amending the ordinary law .
8 The difference between the trained and the naïve rats is that the former have been electrically shocked , and therefore certainly stressed or pained , when attempting to enter the dark box .
9 The danger for almost all golfers is that the right side tends to be dominant at the start of the downswing .
10 Given this , it is impossible to avoid the idea that another part of the difference between the causal items and their effects is that the causal items exist at a time when their effects do not .
11 The buzz among senior Conservatives is that the quiet campaign on behalf of MacGregor is not going well .
12 Pseudo-Ulpian suggests that the distinction between civil-law dispositions and trusts is that the former are in direct and the latter in precatory words .
13 One important assumption of the modernity/postmodernity controversies is that the political left of Marxists and critical Theorists is aligned with the modernists , whereas those ( especially French-influenced poststructuralists ) who connect somehow to postmodernism are apolitical and have little concern with contemporaneous social struggles .
14 For me , one of the most useful functions is that the 9000 program allows a knitter to match the screen colours almost exactly to the yarns in use , by the use of the PALETTE section of the menu .
15 The reason why reliance is more deserving of protection than expectations is that the former involves merely a resto-ration to the position once held , whereas the latter entails a transfer of wealth or the enrichment of one party at the expense of the other .
16 The general impression of investigators is that the great majority of the graduates , in spite of certain difficulties , enjoy their work .
17 The reason for reducing the event 's costs is that the less money which is spent on the gig means that more money goes to the artist .
18 The nature of the disciplinary sanctions on which the system rests is that the modern MP is heavily reliant on the support of party activists and party finance in order to be elected .
19 ( The main difference between the two studies is that the American forecasters assume a fairly high level of growth in total employment while the British researchers are more pessimistic , predicting that employment over the 10 years will fall by 3 per cent . )
20 The danger with accepting that cats have a hundred different sounds is that the whole subject becomes too complicated to make much sense .
21 One of the difficulties is that the Angolan understanding of the agreement reached in June was that Mr Savimbi should not remain in Angola while elections are held , though he might return later .
22 The advantage of the design of these experiments is that the critical comparison is made within-subjects .
23 what also emerges from these pages is that the poor are not necessarily apathetic about their situation , nor are they bound by a culture of poverty , but are quite capable of positive action to attempt to solve their problems .
24 As Docherty said : ‘ The problem caused by the tendency in user organisations to hive off IT to specialist managers is that the real users and decision-makers within them are isolated .
25 Moreover it has been suggested earlier that one important issue for social policy that arises in relationship between public authorities and private agencies is that the latter may be the instruments by which government executes policy .
26 There are many reasons why , in the early nineteenth century , different considerations would intrude on the modelling of a dissected female body rather than that of a male , but one conclusion we could draw from these figures is that the human norm is male , and the only reason to look at female bodies is for that which makes them female , i.e. the reproductive system .
27 One of the objectives is that the two become one .
28 The problem for the Free Presbyterians is that the fraternal orders have always seen themselves as linking the broad Protestant religious tradition with the main unionist party , hence the common arrangement of Orange Lodges holding their annual church parades at each of the Church of Ireland , Presbyterian , and Methodist churches in turn .
29 The distinction between complex subjects and multi-word terms is that the former contain more than one unit concept .
30 The concept 's importance in theoretical terms is that the epic poet catches himself dreaming , and tries to communicate his dream to the rest of the group , through a mythic poem , or a ritual drama .
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