Example sentences of "is that the [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reality , I fear , is that the right hon. Gentleman does not understand the economy or how it works . |
| 2 | The Conservative case is that the present economic situation does not amount to a crisis . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He never needed any encouragement in these moral quests , and my guess is that the recent favourable publicity about him means we will be hearing a great deal more of the Preacher from Plains . |
| 5 | The second problem is that the complex multi-causal nature of drug use makes it difficult to identify what particular combinations of factors make people likely to use heroin , and changes in these causal variables could increase the size of the potential user population . |
| 6 | Apart from the use of quarterly data , the main difference in this study is that the current monetary shock is included in the output equation rather than being incorporated in the error term , in what — ADD demonstrate — is an asymptotically efficient estimation procedure . |
| 7 | Mr Ferris asks us to point out that one of the requirements of the UK Air Navigation Order is that the current registered owner of an aircraft must keep the Authority informed of any changes to their address or ownership details in order that the UK Register of Civil Aircraft can be kept up to date . |
| 8 | The fact is that the only reasonable method of securing conviction of individuals among a rioting football mob or crowd of lager louts or gang of shoplifters is to use video . |
| 9 | What they lose sight of is that the only possible justification of the expense of supporting these vast bureaucratic machines is to ensure that the necessary high standard of safety is established and maintained . |
| 10 | However , if the above criticism of the partial equilibrium model is put to one side , the implication of Roll 's work is that the only valid test is one in which the various market indices , which are used as proxies for the market portfolio , are examined to see if they are mean variance efficient . |
| 11 | Some of these books are raw as hell , but whether the inspiration comes from Jilly Cooper or Thomas Hardy , Iceberg Slim or Samuel Selvon , what can be said for sure is that the Black British Novel is here to stay , giving voice to a bunch of people with a whole mess of new stories to tell . |
| 12 | It could be argued that the propositions considered earlier as regards the patient so requesting would be applicable , since all that has changed is that the relevant legal decision-maker is the parent or guardian , so that the doctor would be absolved from his duty . |
| 13 | Parsons ' view is that the modern industrial family is relatively isolated from society , certainly more so than its pre-industrial predecessor . |
| 14 | But the record is that the average real cost overrun on any kind of large fossil-fired project is 23 per cent , and on nuclear the smallest overrun has been 36 per cent . |
| 15 | Another interesting fact shown in the DVR accounts is that the average weekly number of employees has been reduced by only five even though the DVR now operates one railway . |
| 16 | The danger facing American troops , military analysts say , is that the new civilian government headed by President Guillermo Endara may not be strong enough to rule on its own . |
| 17 | One of the fears of the Bengali community is that the new Conservative administration of the GLC will not honour a private agreement reached with the Labour GLC in 1976 , for quick and emergency relocation of harassed Asian families . |
| 18 | One important consequence of this decline , or disappearance , of the old-style communist parties throughout Europe is that the European socialist movement , deeply divided from 1919 , when the Third ( Communist ) International was founded , until the 1980s , is now being reunified . |
| 19 | The starting premise is that the existing disciplinary organisation of university education is inadequate to respond to this challenge , either intellectually or pedagogically . |
| 20 | The bad news , shown by the lower line on the chart , is that the overall visible trade balance has fallen into the red , by £353 million in 1990 . |
| 21 | The effect of this accounting on a stepped interest bond is that the overall effective interest cost will be charged in each accounting period : an accrual will be made in addition to the cash payments in earlier periods and will reverse , partially offsetting the higher cash payments , in later periods . |
| 22 | The argument is that the overall financial pool will suffer if a couple of first-round matches involve the big first-class guns , while perhaps four Minor sides play each other , with the two winners also drawn against each other . |
| 23 | The nice thing about this system is that the above double resonance can be guaranteed : the refractive-index change induced by the strong pump beam actually moves the comb of longitudinal modes with respect to the pump frequency ( it is strictly the product of.length and refractive index that determines the mode frequencies ) . |
| 24 | Wile I happily photograph the classical palm fringed beaches of this kind , my feeling is that the good tropical island photography requires that one chooses a scene of paradise which records the fact of perfect beauty , yet , at the same time , evokes the presence of humans . |
| 25 | What is interesting , is that the outer negative force seeks within the data of your left brain , the evidence of your failure on a given subject . |
| 26 | The main reason for this study is that the future economic development of the Soviet Republics depends very largely on trade in order to provide the currency for food provision and modernisation . |
| 27 | My own reading of the evidence is that the wide ranging family network ( Rosser and Harris 's ‘ extended family ’ ) is fast losing all functional significance and , that being so , the elementary family of conjugal pair and children is reverting to its original condition — once again it is a domestic group not a kinship group . |
| 28 | One possible explanation is that the increased immunoreactive gastrin circulating in patients with H pylori infection is of reduced biological activity or indeed not biologically active at all . |
| 29 | The truth is that the great economic boom provided employment — at home and for emigrants abroad-on a quite unprecedented scale . |
| 30 | A further significant feature is that the ordinary prudent man standard has itself been applied in such a way as to leave the director 's duty of care with little content . |