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

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1 Current thinking is that the whole word recognition approach is not viable for the more general problem with large vocabularies ( Tappert et al , 1990 ) .
2 And the cause is manifest in every sordid glimpse we gain of their parents and their homes … the enduring lesson to be learned from this painful wartime experiment is that the primary aim of education must be to produce not merely cleverer children , but in the next generation wiser parents
3 You see , the human perception is that the thicker string feels different to the thin one , and so a balanced set of strings actually feels completely out of balance .
4 Over at Ibrox , the news for their fans is that the long injury list is continuing to shorten .
5 The partnership is that the public sector provides funding — on a contracted , targeted basis — but the voluntary group provides the policy , the strategy design , the management skills and administration of the initiative .
6 The crucial feature necessary for the occurrence of the special phenomena of double diffusive convection is that the two components should have different diffusivities .
7 Yet even here there are minefields , for the report of a group of Commonwealth experts is likely to be the basis for the discussion on the environment , and its main recommendation is that the developed countries should foot the bill for the under-developed to adopt environment-friendly means of production .
8 But what must astonish us , I think , more than the details of violence is that the only charges brought as a result of this death were against three men who were charged with assault and punished with a 20 shillings ' fine , with the additional requirement that they should pay the doctor 's bill on the dead man .
9 What is truly bizarre about this tragic episode is that the Mendelian camp had , in Kammerer 's extraordinary results , dramatic evidence in support of their own theory .
10 The result is that the key leaders of worship fail to relate properly and their dealings with one another are inhibited by suspicion and threat .
11 The result is that the surviving text of the Interludium de Clerico et Puella looks quite different from Dame Sirith : it looks like an anticlerical play .
12 An obvious explanation for such a result is that the former compound evokes more suppression simply because the UR ( of suppression ) evoked by the novel stimulus combines with the CR elicited by the CS+ .
13 The net result is that the total energy return is less than the input .
14 The result is that the final confrontation with the evil Sangrado , the melodramatic scene of occult horror from which Margarita is rescued and the revelation of her true identity , take on a particular sharpness of surprise , a tone of active , romantic effort quite different from the tensions of Sard 's wanderings .
15 The result is that the practical definition of obscenity has been decided by middle-aged-to-elderly professional men .
16 In Fig. 11–8 the result is that the marginal cost curve is shifted to the right ( i.e. MC shifts to MC' ) .
17 The result is that the growing ferrets show no shyness to human contact .
18 The result is that the main characters in À la Recherche are not by any means all of a piece .
19 The result is that the twenty features of the Patois competence scale can be grouped into five clusters .
20 One result is that the old parties face a growing challenge from new groups led by energetic men who have been excluded from the ruling class because of their race or their class .
21 The net result is that the Scottish Office and the National Farmers ' Union of Scotland are trying hard to get the message across — tackle the forms immediately with the 15 May deadline in mind .
22 As the leading firms prepare to meet the challenge of the national lottery , the irony is that the first revamp of the format in 24 years will make the pools themselves more of a lottery .
23 The irony is that the Labour government has set up and funded handsomely a Royal Commission on Social Policy which will make its report at the end of 1988 .
24 The irony is that the costly approval-procedures which drug firms so regularly complain about can be their best shield against liability claims .
25 The irony is that the more people are encouraged to think about their behaviour and take responsibility for the impact it has on other people , the more they tend to become open and honest rather than furtive and clandestine .
26 In pondering these options , the key point to bear in mind is that the only way a society can get a rich future is by engineering a rich economy .
27 One problem with analysing fraud is that the official statistics do not record the class or occupation of the offender , nor the detail of the offence .
28 The long-term prediction is that the only defence against AIDS lies in effecting behavioural changes and anthropologists are being employed to study behavioural aspects .
29 The general prediction is that the overall size of the age group will fall by 1993 to two thirds of its 1981 peak .
30 Another argument in favour of the provinces is that the steady decentralisation of justice from London naturally increases the importance of the provincial Bar .
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