Example sentences of "[is] [that] [pers pn] [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason we want regionalisation is that we are the only country within the European Community as it now stands , bar Luxembourg and Ireland , not to have regional Government , regional co-ordination of our economic policies and a proper role for the regions to link across Europe . |
| 2 | The view of Dmitri Obolensky , a leading authority on the Bogomils , is that they are the first European manifestation of a tradition which extends for over a thousand years from the teachings of Mani in third-century Mesopotamia to the Albigensian heresy , which appeared in southern France in the thirteenth century . |
| 3 | It gradually becomes apparent to every adolescent male that the only thing most penises have in common is that they are the wrong shape or size as far as their owners are concerned . |
| 4 | The reason that they are diurnal , rather than nocturnal , hunters , is that they are the main predator . |
| 5 | And the more obvious it is that I 'm the best , the more convinced they are that under the surface , in some subtler way that only a more discriminating critic would appreciate , they are … |
| 6 | ‘ No , the strange thing is that I was the only applicant . |
| 7 | The first thing you must get out of your head is that you 're the predestined black sheep of the family , that you and they are necessarily opposed . ’ |
| 8 | of course the opposition wo n't answer that question , but the truth is that it is the usual hallmark of the Tory Government not to fund anything properly . |
| 9 | The point to note here is that it is the lower-wage countries for which this is the case and the crucial impact of the TNCs has been to create intense pressure to keep down labour costs in order to attract foreign investment . |
| 10 | Occasionally several males may form loose groups together , but whether they do this or not the essential point here is that it is the combined efforts of the females that control the herd , and rear and defend the young . |
| 11 | The trouble with Oxford , as Bernard Shaw has written , is that it is the only place where you can both have your cake and eat it . |
| 12 | Although it is probable that the same applies to established onshore centres , the fact is that it is the offshore centres , especially those in the Caribbean , that are most at risk from drugs money . |
| 13 | Studdert Kennedy ( 'Woodbine Willy' ) wrote , ‘ The real truth about the Church is that it is the broken , battered , bleeding but deathless body of the suffering God revealed in Christ . ’ |
| 14 | In short , his argument is that it is the very abstraction which confers the material advantages of modern science , and the social advantages of both modern freedom and equality , which is also responsible for the dilemmas of exploitation and alienation. the central conflict is not , therefore , one between liberalism and equality , which come from the same root , but one emerging from a recognition that both of these entail consequences which may turn against the interests of the subject . |
| 15 | The central problem of the DHSS is that it is the biggest of the big spenders among government departments . |
| 16 | Well , i i if I , the , on one of the comments I 'd make is that it 's the only time I 've ever known the accounting profession to do businessmen a favour by forcing them to face up to what the costs of the consequences of their actions are and this has as James said led to looking quite carefully and I think it 's difficult to quantify the cost at the moment for a variety of reasons . |
| 17 | And what I find interesting is that it 's the sheer vitality of the English sound — it 's not just the Liverpool sound , it 's the English sound — the vitality , the sensuality , the letting one 's hair down quality , that is exactly what the Continentals admired in Dunstable , and strangely enough in a way what Elgar 's got — this incredible sort of desire not to be over formal and to break down certain formal barriers which seems to be so characteristic of English music . |
| 18 | ‘ The second reason why this is a good target is that it 's the same size as the vital part of the aeroplane . ’ |
| 19 | The most popular suggestion is that it was the First World War , and in particular the huge sacrifices of men in the battle of the Somme and the other slaughters on the Western Front , which made the change of attitude , or rhetoric , necessary . |
| 20 | The real importance of the Banbury Lane , regardless of exactly how old it is , is that it was the main medieval route from Northampton to Banbury . |
| 21 | What is also clear is that it was the weaker and poorer sections of the public that were harassed most . |
| 22 | What worried me in looking at the Franks Report is that it was the same group of ministers on the same committee that were dealing with the big issues of war and peace in Middle Europe , with the procurement of nuclear weapons systems . |
| 23 | But what you have to understand is that he 's the biggest thing in these villages , so he has to be the biggest thing in my life . |
| 24 | He 's obviously an unfortunate athlete like Steve Cram , but the one thing I do know is that he is the best friend any vet could have ! |
| 25 | My information , until corrected , is that he is the vice president of the European Peoples Party and it 's a rather ambivalent relationship the er Conservatives have with the European peoples party . |
| 26 | What is striking about it is that he is the first Anglo-Saxon king known to have abdicated to go to Rome and that he went to Rome not as a baptized Christian but to seek baptism . |
| 27 | Amongst his responsibilities are the relationships between the United Nations and our government and of course for us his very , very special claim to fame is that he is the younger brother of our former chairman Simon Boyd . |
| 28 | I would n't call last season debacle making the right decisions , my own personal opinion of him is that he was the right manager to get us out of the second divsion , but I feel that given the players and money avail able to him he maybe could have done better . |
| 29 | But the important quality about Dick Crossman , which made him unique among Members of Parliament and made his testament to the understanding of British Government unique , is that he was the pure , 100 per cent archetypal don , a don through and through , albeit a don whose special subject was politics in practice . |
| 30 | But the suggestion is that he was the black sheep , because he gave up the throne for a woman . |