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

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1 The reason that sales have not boomed is that many customers have been disappointed at what robots do for them .
2 The evolutionary view is that the only explanation for certain practices being adopted and others discarded is that these practices enable the group which adopts them to survive and gain mastery over others .
3 The general impression conveyed is that these women would not necessarily be more satisfied with work if they saw more people , but that they would certainly be less dissatisfied .
4 The main syntactic universal upon whose existence both Chomsky and Sampson are agreed is that all sentences of natural language are hierarchically structured .
5 What research has shown is that these tendencies to behave in certain ways are deeply embedded in past experiences .
6 Of such undertakings all that can be predicated is that some breaches will and others will not , give rise to an event which will deprive the party not in default of substantially the whole benefit which it was intended that he should obtain from the contract ; and the legal consequences of a breach of such an undertaking , unless provided for expressly in the contract , depend upon the nature of the event to which the breach gives rise and do not follow automatically from a prior classification of the undertaking as a " condition " or a " warranty " .
7 Perhaps the most disturbing factor I have so far encountered is that any savings from outpatient surgery are to the purchaser 's benefit , not the provider 's , and therefore outpatient surgery will effectively incur a financial penalty .
8 What is known is that seven deaths on this motorway HAVE been attributed to it .
9 What is not so generally realised is that many deaths and serious illnesses also result from the poisonous substances produced by a range of other animals .
10 We may too readily have mocked the Tory ladies in their funny hats advocating primitive retribution , for what the socialist movement has not registered is that these ladies articulate a collective fear which women share .
11 ( Another curious suggestion I have heard is that these rings were worn as a souvenir of a marriage ) .
12 Rather , what many professional economists in the UK , the United States , and other Western countries have disputed is that these economies do in fact have tax rates above t * ; .
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