Example sentences of "[noun sg] is that an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The irony is that an effective scheme , which resulted in the rebuilding of Russian and eastern European industry with western expertise and equipment could help the West out of its recession as well . |
| 2 | The danger is that an increased demand for imported goods could be created , so local facilities must exist and be really comprehensive when a new tax policy is instigated . |
| 3 | The point is that an orderly community can exist only if it shares many practices , and that in all modern pluralistic societies a great measure of toleration of vastly differing outlooks is made possible by the fact that many of them enable the vast majority of the population to accept common standards of conduct . |
| 4 | The significant point is that an initial capital is a form of emphasis or highlighting in writing , and therefore can be used as a visual correlative of emphasis in speech ( see further 5.4.2 ) . |
| 5 | One good point is that an original direction , but not a supplementary direction , can not be retrospective as it only has ‘ effect from the date of the direction ’ ( para 1A(1) and ( 4 ) ) . |
| 6 | The reason for such lack of jurisdiction to review in the court is that an eleemosynary corporation is governed by a system of private law which is not of ‘ the common known laws of the kingdom ’ but the particular laws and constitutions assigned by the founder . |
| 7 | A counter to that argument is that an effective competition policy will seek to deal with related market price distortions at the same time . ) |
| 8 | The pattern is that an innovative company , after spending much time and money on a technically successful development embodying new technology , puts a first generation product on the market . |
| 9 | The pattern is that an innovative company , after spending much time and money on a technically successful development embodying new technology , puts a first generation product on the market . |
| 10 | The basic idea of electrolysis is that an electric current passes through some liquid , in Tanberg 's case this was water , and the liquid breaks down into its constituent elements ( in this case , hydrogen and oxygen ) . |
| 11 | The snag about recording is that an enormous amount of material is produced which is very tedious to analyse . |
| 12 | When people first encounter it their normal assumption is that an alternate universe is nothing more than a ‘ what might have been ’ ; science-fiction writers have toyed with that idea for decades . |
| 13 | The basic premise of the project is that an economic variable 's seasonal pattern arises from a corresponding pattern in the behaviour of the economic agents . |
| 14 | The answer is that an isolated skull can not always be so classified . |
| 15 | The most obvious distinguishing feature of the experiment by Hall and Honey is that an appetitive reinforcer was used rather than the electric shock of the conditioned suppression procedure . |
| 16 | It said , the key finding of the survey is that an overwhelming majority of the Trusts are reporting an improved performance . |
| 17 | The second qualification is that an innocent party who accepts an anticipatory breach becomes under a duty to mitigate ( minimise ) his loss . |
| 18 | The fact is that an externalized conflict with a psychopathic origin can be confused all too easily with a genuinely external one . |
| 19 | A pragmatic view is that an aesthetic experience is what is described as such , and as there are varieties of religious experience , so there may be varieties of aesthetic experience . |
| 20 | When dealing with requests such as this we treat each on its merits , but the presumption is that an existing position is retained unless a more satisfactory alternative location is identified . |