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

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1 The bad news , on which I expect you 'll agree with me , is that across all parties , the professional politicians have been letting us down for decades .
2 A third type of dispute that is likely to be of particular interest to students of politics is that between separate branches of government .
3 A more sensitive area is that of actual currencies .
4 Woman 's domain is that of private relations and psychological matters , while men deal with the public concerns of politics and economic affairs .
5 Another aspect of mutuality is that of spiritual gifts given for mutual upbuilding .
6 One of the most easily recognizable arrangements is that of four pairs of interlaced squares ( type B in section 3 ) .
7 A parallel trend which has been widely perceived but less well documented is that of increasing numbers of authors per article .
8 The figure of profit Mr Damant regards as most useful is that of maintainable earnings .
9 Another option is that of refundable deposits .
10 The only noise one hears at Edgware Road this morning is that of embittered commuters stomping away from locked gates and cursing as they plan alternative routes .
11 One other possible area of danger is that of good facsimiles , which are more likely to be met with from time to time than competent forgeries .
12 Her emotional journey is that of many women artists : ‘ I would be faced with the enormous problem of re-inventing myself ! ’
13 The remainder of Siemens ' Unix product line is iAPX-86-based , as is that of many vendors .
14 The first is that of many Catholics who already thought the Council a strange and almost unnecessary development .
15 One area which seems to demand a realist approach is that of other minds , which will be discussed in chapter 5 .
16 But the background is that of fifty letters were sent out to a variety of people er , lay and ordained whatever that means !
17 Another case of interest is that of two characters introduced through noun phrases :
18 There is no hard and fast rule : once again , the test is that of ordinary readers .
19 The destiny of these countries , within the capitalist order , is that of mere colonies . ’
20 A second widely-used transform is that of principal components .
21 The final problem is that of matching fonts .
22 Pursuing the image further than the modesty of Wesley would permit , we could in theory have a manner of writing in which there is no style , in which content is presented in its nakedness.A more recent variant of this view is that of French stylisticians such as Bally and Riffaterre , that style is that expressive or emotive element of language which is added to the neutral presentation of the message itself .
23 Another danger which the Government face in the coming months is that of post-Maastricht pressures on sterling .
24 One of the fields that interests me in particular is that of motivic connections .
25 The second area is that of public relations , by which is meant that good public relations exercises , as opposed to advertising , on the part of both individual lawyers and the professional bodies themselves should be encouraged .
26 This is because both forms of enterprise are identical to the individuals who own them ; their creditworthiness is that of those individuals .
27 The short game was awry , as , they will tell you , is that of any high-handicappers when they are ‘ undergolfed ’ , which means all the time .
28 The form in which meaning is dealt with is that of conventional meanings .
29 By far the most urgent is that of nuclear weapons .
30 The first is that of feminist campaigners based , not only in rape crisis centres and refuges , but also in specialist lobby groups such as Women Against Rape and Women Against Violence Against Women .
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