Example sentences of "[num ord] be that the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The second is that the electrical activity of the brain is temporally patterned : when a cell is active or inactive is as important as how much it is active .
2 The second is that the statutory services do not have the monopoly of altruism or the monopoly of occupying the high moral ground , and I think that those of you who saw the presentation given yesterday afternoon by Mike O'Reilly on the work that 's being done at Knowesouth , the private home he and his wife run , would have to concede that that was an excellent example of the kind of not only interesting , but the kind of pushing forward the boundaries of what can be done in different kinds of settings for people with dementia .
3 ONE reason Boris Yeltsin did so well in the referendum on April 25th is that the Russian economy is looking better than at any time since reform began .
4 The first is that the five senses do not and can not give us ‘ unvarnished news ’ — information independent of the concepts used to classify it .
5 The first is that the arithmetical accuracy of a profit and loss budget must be confirmed by the preparation of a budgeted balance sheet as at the period end .
6 The first is that the long term survival after oesophageal transection and gastric devascularisation and endoscopic sclerotherapy are identical and the second is that the surgical procedure is significantly more expensive than repeated sclerotherapy .
7 The first is that the traditional account of the Muftilik is in an important respect at odds with the facts since the dating of the Muftilik of Molla Abdulkerim in the traditional list can be shown not to accord either with the earliest biographical information or with such little documentary evidence as exists , this fact , in turn , having implications for the dating of the periods of office of several other Muftis .
8 The first is that the required rate of return is constant over the period under consideration .
9 The first is that the Prime Minister has always said she regards the fight against inflation as paramount .
10 The first is that the social purpose framework — of raising collective working-class consciousness through critical , liberal educational processes — has been of central importance in the development of community adult education practice in Britain .
11 The first is that the constant component of monetary growth , g , does now exert an influence on real output .
12 The first is that the British coal industry will be decimated in the near future ; the second is that the present Conservative Government are actively working to achieve such a decline , together with the substantial job losses that accompany pit closures .
13 The first is that the conservation policies themselves still have many of the assumptions of the colonial model .
14 The first is that the corporate constitution does not provide that the members shall decide how the business is run , but vests decision-making power in the directors and managers .
15 The first is that the age-long silence is ended .
16 The first was that the large majority of intentional killings within the family , or other existing personal relationships , were excluded from the death penalty , leading Professor Glanville Williams to remark :
17 The first was that the Maronite community — which at best constituted only 30 per cent of the Lebanese — was almost certainly outnumbered by the Sunnis or the Shias .
18 The first was that the informal wages policy arranged by Bevin had been successful in stemming wartime inflation , and it was assumed this could be continued in peacetime .
19 The third is that the new right and Conservatism are one and the same .
20 The answer to the third is that the Criminal Justice Act 1991 introduced new guidelines which can be passed from the magistrates to the social services to ensure that from October this year juveniles can be remanded in custody under certain conditions not previously available to the courts .
21 One is that they are a dumping site for iron ; another is that the magnetic material is involved in the growth and repair of bones ; and the third is that the magnetic deposits are concerned with detecting magnetic fields as an aid to navigation .
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