Example sentences of "[be] [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 You know because if you are going to ask an employer to enter into a contract between the between an individual employee , then really you 've got to give him some advantages to do that and I think that er I do n't know what the figures are or the number of final salary pension schemes that have been launched in the last couple of years , but I should think it be , be quite few and I think that there is a difficulty that if we go too far in taking power away from the er from the employer , erm then I , I can see the demise of final salary pension schemes , so I think one 's got to keep a balance there of erm you know that i that you must n't turn the employee off completely from this type of scheme .
2 Erm and then of course there would be a I do n't know what the rates of interest are or the payback period but the erm of course the longer the payback period the more it costs you in the end so .
3 But it must never be forgotten that , if this happens , it happens by accident : it can be no part of the system that pupils should be entered for a test because of the age they are or the class they are part of .
4 She was unlike the girl she 'd been or the women he 'd known since ; she had a rare energy , and it was good to be near .
5 The advantage of systems such as Dbase 2 are that the user controls the number of fields available ( e.g. the school librarian may wish to have a field for the person who ordered the item and a teacher could have a list of all books or items ordered by him/herself or by the Geography department ) and the size of each field , which is limited by other programs .
6 The signs are that the talks are progressing well .
7 The other requirements are that the liquid should not attack the specimen an should not be impracticably toxic .
8 The disadvantages are that the technique is very ambitious , is sensitive to data inaccuracies and incompleteness , and technical problems of model validation are formidable .
9 The odds are that the NZRFU will be happier now that Wyllie has decided not to stand .
10 For the first category the two main concerns are that the software will accept input from whatever word processor you are currently using and that the page printer will support your required fonts .
11 All the indications are that the public likes the House being televised .
12 They are that the public expect Britain to be defended and want Labour to be what it has been for most of its history — a party prepared to provide resources commensurate with defending this country .
13 Chances are that the build-up to the Full Moon on the 16th will prove emotionally and financially draining , and there will be one last hurtle late in the month which could throw you temporarily off balance .
14 ALL THE indications are that the Monopolies & Mergers Commission report , published next week , will give the green light to Coats Viyella 's £395m bid for Tootal Group .
15 It has proved impossible to determine whether the French LFA farmer is better off financially having loans compared with his UK counterpart receiving a capital grant ; the indications are that the UK system has been a greater incentive , especially towards land improvements .
16 It may be legal but did what do you think the chances are that the programmer who created your application anticipated the way that you are trying to use the program .
17 If a computer program has been obtained for use in a commercial environment , whether it be a word processing package , accounts system or spreadsheet , the chances are that the original will fail at the worst possible moment .
18 Complaints about noise have increased tenfold in the past fifteen years , and all the signs are that the problem is still getting worse .
19 For the next two months , however , he must devote himself to his team and the signs are that the passage through India will be anything but smooth .
20 You can improvise details of how the soul is destroyed if needs be , but the odds are that the adventurers wo n't agree to one of their number getting this treatment .
21 Indications are that the Zike will be more successful .
22 The conditions attaching to grant are that the D S S transfer , eighty five percent of it has to be spent on the independent sector , and there are monitoring mechanisms in place whereby the government is going to assure itself that has happened .
23 The facts are that the patient has requested that the doctor discontinue treatment , and the doctor has ignored this request .
24 The advantages of early identification are that the patient can co-operate in decisions , and support services can be introduced at an early stage .
25 But the signs are that the Essex skipper will give Atherton good news before leading his side against Lancashire in their Sunday League clash .
26 In my judgment , provided the specified precondition is met , the only limitations on the type of order that can be made under section 6(2) that are justified by the statutory language are that the order must be intended to restore all the parties to the transaction to their respective former positions and that the steps directed by the order to be taken must be reasonably capable of doing so .
27 These are that the order impugned is not within the powers of the Act or that any requirement of the Act has not been complied with .
28 Although the number of accidents involving specific road user groups is small , the indications are that the benefits have fallen to pedestrians , particularly children , and cyclists .
29 The chances are that the felon who takes your car , raids your house , or robs you in the street will be no older than 15 , the national peak age for Britain 's criminal underclass .
30 Initial indications are that the treatment has had a marked effect , but a close eye will be kept on the situation , and regular reports made to the council .
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