Example sentences of "[noun sg] be that [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Two dangers of the purchaser-provider split are that collaboration among health care professionals may be undermined and the provider aspects of the public health role may become removed from the purchasing role .
2 Two possible explanations for this result are that growth in nominal activity may raise the relative return on domestic assets , or alternatively , that the exchange rate ( units of foreign currency per unit of domestic currency ) appreciates following capital inflows attracted by growth in the domestic economy .
3 The shelf-life is that period of time during which a product stored under market conditions changes from the limit of the release specifications to the limit of the check specification in respect of its least stable parameter .
4 The shelf-life is that period of time during which the value of the least stable parameter changes from the limiting value of the release specification to the limiting value of the check specification .
5 When a plaintiff is injured and as a result is paid no wages his immediate real loss is that part of his net earnings that were available for current expenditure .
6 With regard to the last of these , the sphere of circulation is that part of the social formation in which exchange takes place , through the buying and selling of all commodities ( including labour power ) .
7 Mind is that capacity of individuals to correlate past experience with ongoing reactions .
8 The only branch of academic analysis which , by virtue of its title , might have been thought to represent a candidate for this specific area of study is that sub-section of anthropology known as material culture studies .
9 The first rule is that outlay in total , private and public , must always be enough for full employment .
10 The theory underpinning this reorganization is that competition between providing units will increase both the range and quality of the services provided .
11 She says one fear is that land in the hills will become redundant .
12 The alleged advantage of incorporation is that tax on profits retained within the business can be paid at Corporation Tax rates , 25% in the case of the Small Companies Rate or 33% main rate , rather than Income Tax at the individual 's marginal rate , currently 25% or 40% .
13 The tenant 's holding is that part of the property occupied by him ( whether or not for business purposes ) or by an employee of his employed in the business giving rise to protection ( s23(3) ) .
14 The suggestion offered earlier in this chapter was that pre-exposure to a stimulus , as well as allowing certain associations to be formed , might also result in a loss of associability .
15 The RICS scale provided for a commission of 10 per cent , but upon what figure was that percentage to be calculated ?
16 This is the sort of procedure that Wimsatt had in mind when he said ( 1958 : 149 ) that ‘ poetry is that type of verbal structure where truth of reference or correspondence reaches a maximum degree of fusion with truth of coherence — or where external and internal relation are intimately mutual reflections ’ .
17 My sole regret is that feed-back from A. S. M. members has been patchy .
18 The basic principle of law is that assignment of a contract is not possible where the identity of the assignor is an important factor for the other party to the contract either as a reason for his entering into the contract in the first place , or because it is for some reason significant for the proper discharge of the contract .
19 A basic principal of the Community Care Plan is that care at home should support an acceptable quality of life for each person and for their carers .
20 The basic requirement is that glazing in certain critical locations must be safe .
21 The second difference is that turnover on the management and supervisory boards was high : AEG had eight departures and 11 new arrivals on its management board in 1980–89 ; Bayer 11 departures and seven arrivals ; MAN two departures and seven arrivals .
22 But the argument against further reform is that stability above all is what the country needs .
23 The probable answer to the first inquiry is that ownership of material is unchanged by alteration of it ; to the second , that the court will use its discretion in making an order for specific restitution and will award the thing to him whose interest is the more substantial , on condition that he pays the value of the other 's interest .
24 The aim is that entertainment on pay-TV will pay for the more innovative plans , including two way transactions down the cables , that lie at the heart of the cabling idea .
25 In the most general sense , the shelf-life of a product is that period of time between its date of manufacture and the date on which it becomes no longer acceptable for whatever reason .
26 The truth is that nationality in art has limited importance .
27 What is generally and inherently good about getting true beliefs is that they 're useful , in the following sense : truth is that property of our beliefs which ensures that the actions they make us perform will succeed .
28 The essential point is that identification of the goods is that with which the section is concerned . "
29 The point is that perception of discourse type is a factor in discourse processing and production which brings together our perception of sender/receiver , topic , function — and other factors besides .
30 Stigler 's insight was that randomness in demand provides scope for cheating on a collusive agreement , and creates a problem of statistical inference in enforcing that agreement .
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