Example sentences of "[is] [that] the [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One problem with analysing fraud is that the official statistics do not record the class or occupation of the offender , nor the detail of the offence . |
| 2 | Another argument is that the planned £250,000 prize fund guarantees the players , as well as administrators , a bumper tournament . |
| 3 | Thus it is that the new 3-series gets a modest extra inch of legroom and stays conspicuously smaller than the far from roomy 5-series . |
| 4 | Do not forget you also have a responsibility to treat the case properly , all I say is that the 4 oz syndrome is no longer the answer . |
| 5 | In the process of negotiating conflict all the participants help to set the framework of ideas within which conflict is managed and a crucial dimension of this framework is that the Japanese people are characteristically said to defer to the national consensus . |
| 6 | The important thing is that the empirical data and the theorizing are connected , not separate , things . |
| 7 | ‘ The really tragic thing is that the longer people are unemployed the harder it is to get them back to work . |
| 8 | The fact is that the editorial staff of PFK are only concerned with one person — you the reader . |
| 9 | The danger is that the younger people with below median incomes actually have lower incomes than older people with below median incomes . |
| 10 | But what young members , what young people find ironic , is that the same people who are telling them they 've never had it so good , in the same breath accuse them of being responsible for high community crime levels , drug and alcohol abuse and the violence . |
| 11 | The irony is that the more people are encouraged to think about their behaviour and take responsibility for the impact it has on other people , the more they tend to become open and honest rather than furtive and clandestine . |
| 12 | The gamble is that the more people know about the workings of behaviour the more they will use it skilfully to benefit themselves and others . |
| 13 | The reason why the ’ three wise men ’ report was produced so quickly is that the three people whom I invited to deliver it — Mr. Alexander , Mr. Rose and Mr. Woodhead — had behind them a lifetime of experience and close involvement with primary schools , and they were able to distil that lifetime 's knowledge very rapidly . |
| 14 | The crude implication , not borne out , is that the poorer 50% + 1 gain from the activities of government : This however tends not to be the case in empirical studies . |