Example sentences of "[adj] be [conj] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is clear is that the financial cost of alcohol misuse to society as a whole runs into hundreds of millions of pounds each year . |
| 2 | This is very possible but , what is clear is that the only course open to you is to introduce your ferrets and hope that they will bolt a reasonable number of the occupants , since the depths involved make digging out impossible . |
| 3 | What is becoming increasingly clear is that the Labour party is trying to do nothing other than promote scare stories so as deliberately to frighten people who have traditionally relied on adult education courses . |
| 4 | What is absolutely clear is that the three prisoners have themselves vehemently protested their innocence from day one . |
| 5 | Rather , what this chapter has been concerned to make clear is that the potential impact of records of achievement , as well as that of the GCSE , can not be determined without making reference to both initiatives . |
| 6 | Over the years , I have seen so many private gardens and advised so many gardeners on labour-saving tools and equipment , and what comes through loud and clear is that the biggest problem facing gardeners is that they are caught in the trap between growing all they would like to grow , doing all they want to do and having the lime to do it . |
| 7 | There are other meanings to be drawn from this first sonnet , of course , but what is clear is that the poetic sequence of Astrophil and Stella may be seen announcing itself as a failure , a success , both , or neither . |
| 8 | What is clear is that the military origins of nuclear power in this country gave it a powerful boost as an infant technology , and that the umbilical cord has not been severed . |
| 9 | The speaker who uses it feels himself or herself to be stating , with an explicitness not found in the merely qualifying adjective , even when it is ascriptive , that the property expressed does hold of the entity identified by the whole noun phrase ; an inevitable concomitant is that the postnominal adjective must be to a certain extent salient in the situation where it is used . |
| 10 | What is indefensible is that the tawdry motley should be financed by an annual impost on you and me . |
| 11 | What is interesting is that the actual deficits of 1971 and 1972 turned out to be over twice the planned deficits for those years and the actual deficit of 1975 three times the projected deficit for that year . |
| 12 | But what is then especially interesting is that the cultural process of including and incorporating areas of the oral culture into printed forms is very complex indeed , and in some important respects contradictory . |
| 13 | What is equally interesting is that the journalistic profession has clasped the promising idea of the Independent to its bosom . |
| 14 | Far more interesting is whether the hon. Gentleman and his Back-Bench colleagues support Labour 's new nuclear defence policy — so far as anyone can understand it . |
| 15 | What was clear was that the new department was intent on circumscribing medical influence within the state . |
| 16 | The allegations were unverifiable , but what was clear was that the mixed population was not around to enjoy day one of its newly-bestowed freedom . |
| 17 | One of the things that was popular was that the smaller things like rabbit clubs when people could then get food for them officially if they did that . |
| 18 | What I thought was interesting was that the vital points at the end of the day were supplied by some of the unheralded members of the team . |
| 19 | The difficulty in acknowledging the possibility of harm from a method of prophylaxis that seems natural is that the potential hazard is unspecified and hypothetical whereas the potential benefit is specific . |
| 20 | The fourth reason why the Labour party 's hypocrisy and deceit on unemployment is incredible is that the Labour party — I shall not talk about its Common Market Safeguards Committee , of which eight members of the Shadow Cabinet are still members — and the Opposition Front Bench are just as committed as the Government to membership of the exchange rate mechanism . |
| 21 | What does , however , seem likely is that the great marketing operation for citizenship education , like that of citizenship before it , has involved the promotion of a product which its advertisers do not fully comprehend . |
| 22 | What is likely is that the royal burgh and its muir were set up by David 's brother , Alexander I , in about 1120 , but what is certain is that when David founded Holyrood Abbey in 1128 , or soon after , his charter makes it clear that Edinburgh was by then a going concern . |
| 23 | What is not so obvious is whether the vast sums of money that have been spent by central government and the local authorities on housing over the years have had much effect on reducing housing inequalities . |
| 24 | What is less obvious is that the marine transgression , or whatever other event it may be at Locality " A " could well be reflected in some way in the different facies at Locality " B " . |
| 25 | ‘ What is most depressing is that the Balkan conflict may be a harbinger of what is to come , if , as now seems likely , human rights can be violated with impunity . |
| 26 | The above two lists speak for themselves , but what is evident is that the smallest income is from membership and the biggest income is from the Sports Council . |
| 27 | What is , perhaps , even more important is that the Chief Inspector will also decide which accidents will not be investigated . |
| 28 | What is important is that the British coal industry should achieve contracts with the generators in the next round of contracts due to start in April 1993 . |
| 29 | What is important is that the three aspects of technology , design and publishing conventionally are addressed by different faculties in educational institutions . |
| 30 | The most important is that the Guatemalan government is responding to international pressure . |