Example sentences of "[noun sg] is that [art] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The clear implication of this study is that the biggest response of northern hemisphere temperatures ‘ should ’ have been in June , two months after El Chichón 's eruption , and that is just what the temperature record shows . |
| 3 | What is now plain is that the best work has a deep capacity for humane , even spiritual insight . |
| 4 | Their main conclusion is that the earliest occupants of the Klasies River Mouth site ( before 100 000 years ago ) were modern-looking people ( Homo sapiens sapiens ) who would have been ancestral to the indigenous African Negro and Klioisan peoples . |
| 5 | The truth is that the best cleanser for you depends largely on your skin type and how much make-up you wear . |
| 6 | Speaking in Castlemilk , Mr Dewar said : ‘ The disgraceful truth is that the poorest in society became poorer in absolute and relative terms during the 1980s . ’ |
| 7 | The good news is that The Fastest Thumb in The West , and his friends , can still do the business , but the downside of the story is that ‘ Guaranteed ’ offers no perspectives which differ radically from those which came before . |
| 8 | The trouble is that the finest tournament starts appear in photographs to be hitting late . |
| 9 | ‘ His theory , Greg , is … how long you got ? … his theory is that the best music is the stuff which makes you go doolally , lose yourself . |
| 10 | One of the major points to emerge from computational theory is that the best way of achieving a representation of the environment is via a modular system that represents different properties of the environment in different parts of the system . |
| 11 | One of the underlying assumptions in our society is that the best most morally valuable care is that provided by family , friends and neighbours . |
| 12 | So the word is that the best bet is on the appointment of another academic ( Sir Roger himself , though just due to become president of the Publishers Association , is expected to return to his chair of physics when he retires from the press in the summer ) . |
| 13 | The odd thing is that the earliest models — unstreamlined and primitive ( thermostats were n't available until the 20s ) — seem just the thing you 'd see in today 's trendy kitchen . |
| 14 | The answer is that the earliest attempt to explain the disorder was that the brain regions for understanding and for producing speech were intact , and what was damaged was the neural pathway which conducted information between these two pathways . |
| 15 | So , the answer is that the strongest motives restrain Governments from limiting the rate of growth of public expenditure to that rate which they could be sure of meeting within the growth of the national product and thus without any substantial increase in taxation but also without relying upon borrowing and without monetisation of debt . |
| 16 | The feedback I get from my heart is that the best skiing is to be found not at big resorts but small ones . |
| 17 | My own experience is that the lowest ebb after a very hard run is not the morning after but the morning after that . |
| 18 | And do galaxies with unusually compact companions show any sign of past quasar activity ? one intriguing clue is that the nearest compact galaxy we know happens to be a companion to the giant radio galaxy M87 — and its orbit must have taken it to within 6000 light years of M87 only 100 million years ago . |
| 19 | The conventional wisdom is that the biggest effects are produced after the veil of material from an eruption ( called a ‘ dust veil ’ , although suspended droplets of liquids such as sulphuric acid may be just important as solid particles ) has spread around the hemisphere and is blocking the Sun 's radiation more or less uniformly . |
| 20 | The fact is that the greatest mystery of all — the Incarnation — comes at the very beginning and is the central reason why we believe in God . |
| 21 | A startling fact is that the biggest application — accounting for 762 robots — is in ‘ non industrial ’ applications , which include the use of robots as toys or teaching aids . |