Example sentences of "the [noun sg] is that [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The essence of the change is that the intermediating function between social and economic forces is no longer one that a government can renounce or let go by default . |
| 2 | What might , however , be the case is that a greater proportion of people in temporary jobs are " involuntary " rather than " voluntary " temporary workers than a decade or so ago , in other words that the structure of the temporary worker population has changed over time . |
| 3 | The important point for the present is that the above clauses leave no room for doubt that a breach of contract will justify the victim in terminating the contract . |
| 4 | The difficulty is that a like conditional ( derived from the independent conditional ( 6 ) also set out in 1.3 ) may well be true of b . |
| 5 | The difficulty is that the two contributions made opposite points . |
| 6 | Part of the difficulty is that the same environmental factors which predispose children to middle-ear infections may contribute independently to developmental delay . |
| 7 | There are plenty of good ideas around , but the worry is that the sheer difficulty of practising in inner cities will overwhelm even the most enthusiastic practitioners and managers and that they will ‘ settle for more of the same … but out of better buildings . ’ |
| 8 | The difference between the BSc and the BEng is that the latter includes a module on Professional Issues , and is recognised by the Engineering Council as satisfying part of the requirements for achieving Chartered Engineer status . |
| 9 | What seems clear from the chart is that the real exchange rates have deviated by much larger amounts over the period 1978–88 than in the early years of floating . |
| 10 | The other side of the coin is that the same observations can be deduced from alternative theories . |
| 11 | The story is that the brave telegraphist continued to tap out messages and calls for help as the roaring fire closed in around his log cabin No 30 beside the railroad track , and he was still tapping out the Morse code for ‘ end of message — 30 — end of message — 30 … ’ as the burning log cabin collapsed around him . |
| 12 | Now , it 's not then that society does n't believe in the supernatural , we believe in the supernatural , society at large believes in the supernatural , the tragedy is that the natural man , the natural person however , as always is more willing to believe Satan 's mysteries than he is to believe God 's mysteries . |
| 13 | What the high-speed camera does n't show as it freezes the action is that the top pros have the skill to make the clubhead catch up with their hands and arrive at the same time at impact … as when at address . |
| 14 | But the irony is that a human being , with all his potential capacity for understanding , is actually so cut off from his fellow humans that a plant sometimes has better perceptions at the subtle level than he has ! |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The irony is that the Dutch , after nearly fifty years , still take the Germans to task , albeit jokingly , for having confiscated thousands of bicycles during the occupation . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The irony is that the costly approval-procedures which drug firms so regularly complain about can be their best shield against liability claims . |
| 20 | The irony is that an effective scheme , which resulted in the rebuilding of Russian and eastern European industry with western expertise and equipment could help the West out of its recession as well . |
| 21 | The prospect for the future is that a modernising Soviet economy might even prefer to buy better quality equipment from elsewhere . |
| 22 | If , on the other hand , the condition is that the proper name , if it is to count as a proper name at all , must be non-descriptive , then we shall look in vain for suitable candidates , for there can hardly be an expression that communicates something and yet does not incorporate , or contextually presuppose , a descriptive content . |
| 23 | In market economies , the key is that the very process of trading credit actually creates money . |
| 24 | For the purposes of Clause ( 4 ) of the Agreement , in the event of glass ) being broken or fuel pumps damaged as a result of a collision or an attempt to avoid a collision between two or more vehicles , the intention is that the Immobile Property Insurer shall only recover in total 75% of their loss provided that they have signed this Agreement with the Insurers of the vehicles concerned . |
| 25 | In matters of potential Dual Indemnity for Third Party damage or injury caused by a vehicle the intention is that the Dual Indemnity Undertaking and Explanatory Notes ( G.M. 22/7/76 , C.L. 's 4/10/76 and 26/10/76 ) thereto shall apply . |
| 26 | The result is that a complete flowchart of both wings of the Chemical Products business — which manufactures up to 800 different specific chemicals — strongly resembles a bowl of spaghetti . |
| 27 | The result is that a large proportion of the elderly are solely dependent on the basic state pension , with supplementary benefit . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The result is that the practical definition of obscenity has been decided by middle-aged-to-elderly professional men . |
| 30 | The result is that the best qualified recruits for the Branch as Inspectors ( Operations ) tend to be in their late forties or early fifties , rather than the middle thirties as is preferred . |