Example sentences of "is that the [adj] [noun] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem is that the second question can not be answered until Washington comes up with a consensus on the first . |
| 2 | The overall conclusion to be drawn from this discussion is that the various lags can complicate the business of macroeconomic management , and may even make it counter-productive . |
| 3 | But an additional limitation on the offence at point 7 is that the stationary vehicle must have stopped to accord precedence to pedestrians . |
| 4 | Where they differ is that the former group will look at interest cover rather than dividend cover or earnings per share . |
| 5 | A stronger indication still of the difference between sense-qualifiers and referent-qualifiers is that the former examples will remain odd even when the relevant noun is indicated by the context ( yet there will be no problem with the referent-qualifiers ) : ( 15 ) that stranger is a total one the kid was a mere one ( 16 ) his hut is a rudimentary one the tree felled was a deciduous one Again we may note that the other pair of sense-qualifying adjectives from example ( 1 ) do not sound odd when used with an indefinite head : ( 17 ) a lawful one the distant one but this is not surprising because they are adjectives with more than one meaning ; in one of these they are ordinary referent-qualifiers and hence they may quite freely occur in ( 17 ) with a presumption that the referent-qualifying meaning is the one desired . |
| 6 | As regards the appropriation of funds for the purposes of planned provision , a first point is that the financial institutions could be short-circuited to some extent by increasing taxation of the wealthy . |
| 7 | What is indefensible is that the tawdry motley should be financed by an annual impost on you and me . |
| 8 | An implication of the preceding analysis is that the monetary authorities can only alter the level of output by engineering unanticipated variations in the money supply which , in turn , implies that they are continually altering their policy rule . |
| 9 | What I hear , which was straight off the phone last night , is that the Dutch fans will team up with the English fans , and back the English fans on to the beach and they will try and drown a few of the English people and they will throw bombs at them . |
| 10 | A first condition for the company to react to the opportunities and constraints offered by the engineering dimension is that the individual engineer should have insight into the responsibilities , problems and attitudes of the other company functions . |
| 11 | However , the consequence of doing this is that the current yield would then exhibit a saw-tooth pattern as shown in Fig. 5.2 . |
| 12 | ‘ The view is that the middle tier will have to merge , and we are only just seeing the beginning of this , ’ Michael Jenkin , Glanville 's managing director , told ACCOUNTANCY . |
| 13 | A minus point is that the oil-filter cap can only be reached with the covers off . |
| 14 | Erm , so we are particularly pleased to have you here because we know as well that the G M B is in the forefront of erm establishing activity within Europe , one of , one of the few unions I think is that the only unions will have an office open in Brussels . |
| 15 | One element common to all forms of the offence is that the forbidden conduct must take place when the policeman is acting ‘ in the execution of his duty , ’ which raises the questions ; what duties are imposed upon a policeman , and how do they come to be imposed for these purposes ? |
| 16 | The danger for such grand schemes is that the developed countries will think up targets for the rest of the world to meet , without fully considering the implications for their own domestic policies . |
| 17 | Yet even here there are minefields , for the report of a group of Commonwealth experts is likely to be the basis for the discussion on the environment , and its main recommendation is that the developed countries should foot the bill for the under-developed to adopt environment-friendly means of production . |
| 18 | The fact is that the ultimate choice will not matter to the departed pet but it could make all the difference to the real pain of separation from a beloved companion . |
| 19 | The Institute 's main concern is that the new entities should be expressly subject to national legislation governing the activity undertaken . |
| 20 | The crucial feature necessary for the occurrence of the special phenomena of double diffusive convection is that the two components should have different diffusivities . |
| 21 | The difference between them is that the first regress can only be stopped by certain ( = infallible ) beliefs , while the second insists merely on the existence of beliefs which are non-inferentially justified . |
| 22 | The point here is that the first purchaser can safeguard himself by taking immediate delivery and not leaving the goods or documents of title with the seller . |
| 23 | The argument is that the First World will contribute the high-value technology and components for the production process , while the Third World will contribute the low-value low skill labour . |
| 24 | What is , perhaps , even more important is that the Chief Inspector will also decide which accidents will not be investigated . |
| 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 implication is that the early Australians may have imported their basic mythology at some distant time or had experienced cultural intercourse with visitors from India in the not so remote past . |
| 27 | ( viii ) Methods of curtailing debate The general notion underlying parliamentary debate is that the other side should be allowed to have its say . |
| 28 | A final point worth making in defence of the data is that the observational material can not be impugned to the same degree , because in the flow of action during an incident the exigencies of the situation usually take over , making it difficult for policemen and women to act in ways contrary to what the situation requires or their colleagues demand . |
| 29 | One of the arguments against decentralisation is that the peripheral units can become complacent and lazy and unwilling to take the risks that the financial resources of the centralised company make possible . |
| 30 | As my right hon. Friend said in his statement on 10 December , our aim is that the naval reserves should be ’ streamlined but more closely integrated with the Royal Navy . ’ |