Example sentences of "is that the [noun] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The answer is that the London Rubber Company , Hoffman LaRoche , Kelloggs , the Central Electricity Generating Board , and the National Coal Board have all been the subject of investigations by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |
| 2 | What characterises these speaker-initiated insertion sequences , then , is that the London English part of the speaker 's turn is a sequence embedded in the turn but not part of the mainstream ; it does not necessarily start at a syntactic clause completion point ( for example ( 8 ) , where it begins after a subject pronoun ) and its purpose is to elicit information , or check on information to make it possible for the speaker to complete the current turn ( Sebba and Wootton 1984 : 4 ) . |
| 3 | The truth is that the East German leadership has so far shown all too few signs of wanting to change . |
| 4 | What is missing and what concerns tens of thousands of us is that the midland main line should be electrified as soon as possible . |
| 5 | A widely held view is that the USA current account deficit must be corrected but that the correction should produce ‘ a soft landing ’ . |
| 6 | The corollary of the latter explanation is that the northwest-southeast anticlinal ridge with a core of Westphalian A strata was not significantly buried in later Westphalian times and acted as a controlling feature on Westphalian sedimentation . |
| 7 | The bad news is that the side finishing second in this group could well meet the Soviets in the opening phase of the knockout stage , which is when the World Cup begins in earnest . |
| 8 | So we could , one c er the argument there is is that the party political argument in favour of election by thirds . |