Example sentences of "is [conj] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Now where that centre of that V is where the black ball will go .
2 Yes , that 's right but though I mean there are a couple of additional issues to that and that is that the the tabloid are pandering , is that the right word pandering to their collective view of what the Royal Family should be , a view that is probably wrong .
3 ‘ But the important thing at this stage is that the right decision has been made for the athletes .
4 The danger for almost all golfers is that the right side tends to be dominant at the start of the downswing .
5 The reason for this is that the long run incentive to exploit a conflict of interest may not exist .
6 That 's about the only difference between writing a short answer question than writing a long answer question , is that the long answer is a , is a good idea to have a diagram .
7 The argument outlined in Chapter 3 is that the long term interests of society are best served by a set of regulatory arrangements designed to deter at all levels the misuse of inside information .
8 The first is that the long term survival after oesophageal transection and gastric devascularisation and endoscopic sclerotherapy are identical and the second is that the surgical procedure is significantly more expensive than repeated sclerotherapy .
9 Over at Ibrox , the news for their fans is that the long injury list is continuing to shorten .
10 NACAB 's fourth point is that the present scheme is deficient on grounds of equity .
11 One is that the present level of unemployment must concern the health service ( and 1 have said nothing about other social problems ! ) .
12 Another point which has given me some concern is that the present book is supposed to be a directory of Cabinet Committees .
13 The most interesting fact revealed about Norma is that the poor dear is obviously deranged .
14 The idea is that the various farm based tourist attractions get together to help bring in the visitors .
15 A curious feature of the scene is that the worshipping woman seems to be naked apart from an anklet and what may be a sacral knot tied round her neck .
16 The trouble is that the revised version of the legend of the Courts of Love is as ill-founded as the old one .
17 This is no longer surprising after the discussion in Section I. The second , which is more remarkable , is that the liberal interpretation put forward is reached precisely by analogy with the institutions of the civil law .
18 The fact is that the Liberal Party declined quickly .
19 What we mean by this is that the lexical sub-system we use for recognising printed words in reading may be different from the sub-system we use for producing printed words in writing .
20 But an additional limitation on the offence at point 7 is that the stationary vehicle must have stopped to accord precedence to pedestrians .
21 What is clear is that the financial cost of alcohol misuse to society as a whole runs into hundreds of millions of pounds each year .
22 Part of the charm of a sale is that the financial result is in itself a sort of critical judgement , reflecting even if not defining the taste and mood of the moment .
23 By contrast , the essence of the unorthodox view of insider dealing is that the financial conglomerate itself , through its directors , or other corporate personnel , is the ‘ insider ’ , or ‘ quasi insider ’ .
24 The important point is that the two-stage sampling process involves a sample of the primaries from each member of which is taken a sample of secondaries .
25 My view is that the religious believer who makes a credal statement such as ‘ I believe in God ’ is affirming something similar to the believer in ghosts .
26 An important point in the analysis of Paisleyism is that the religious wing of the movement predated the Catholic civil rights movement .
27 Again , the main additions of the original estimate is that the carried forward of two hundred and forty-four thousand pounds from nineteen ninety-two , ninety-three .
28 My argument here is that the recent emphasis on flexibility has generated pluralist consensus within English which represents a further refusal to articulate an underlying basis and a clear set of aims and principles for the discipline ; and that this refusal , when understood in relation to the appropriation by the new right of the residues of the humanist programme , forms a significant characteristic of the continuing crisis in English studies .
29 The SEC 's case , according to BASF finance director Max Dietrich Kley , is that the chemical giant 's figures understate profits , making it difficult for investors to compare them with those of other concerns .
30 Nevertheless , since a requirement of rationality is that the subjective expectation of the price level , , should equal the objective conditional mathematical expectation for , it follows that .
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