Example sentences of "is [that] the [noun] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a homosexual union is to be accepted as a marriage and yet denied the right to raise children , what is really being said is that the state has an interest in sheltering and protecting children from a homosexual environment . |
| 2 | But what few people realise is that the SAS has two Territorial Army regiments . |
| 3 | The difficulty is that the wife has died intestate , and her intestate heir is precisely the person she was asked to ward off from her property . |
| 4 | Part of the left 's problem , admits Mr Geremek , is that the communists have sullied the term ‘ socialist ’ beyond redemption , even though people respond favourably in opinion polls to such left-wing causes as social justice and equality . |
| 5 | However , if what has happened is that the person has Taken the Side of the Other , then there need not have been attitude-change in the traditional sense . |
| 6 | The reality , however , is that the Institute has had considerable influence in knocking the rough edges off legislation and practice . |
| 7 | The cause of almost every incident where the airbrakes open during the launch is that the pilot has failed to lock them correctly . |
| 8 | Jurisprudentially , the effect is that the offence has become obstructing a constable in the use of his powers , and that is not what the section prohibits . |
| 9 | The fundamental principle … of our law is that the Jury has only the function of determining the question of guilt or innocence , and is relieved of any responsibility for the subsequent penalty . |
| 10 | You may not credit it , but what has happened is that the story has been retold , adjusted , updated ; it has shuffled nearer . |
| 11 | Part of the explanation is that the strike had ( like previous disputes ) left a legacy of financial burden and division within a much weakened union . |
| 12 | The unfair element is that the AFBD has been obliged to extricate itself from a CFTC hole largely dug by the Securities and Investments Board and imperfectly filled in by the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 13 | The problem is that the researcher has imposed a limit on the possible answers that the respondent may give , and this may cast doubt on the validity of the data collected . |
| 14 | The other pattern is that the child has psychiatric or psychological problems or is dependent on drugs or alcohol . |
| 15 | ‘ What is important about the work in Edinburgh is that the scientists have shown that in children who are growth retarded , the risk of cot death is abnormally stronger , ’ said Prof Van Velzen . |
| 16 | A break with this doctrine was made by the Divorce Reform Act 1969 , now replaced by the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 , as amended in 1984 , and the present position is that the sole ground on which a petition for divorce may be presented is that the marriage has broken down irretrievably . |
| 17 | The truth is that the bubble has burst . |
| 18 | My own impression is that the editors have , over the past year , become a little more flexible in their interpretation of the rules . |
| 19 | The only condition is that the driver has a clean licence and has the permission of the mobility supplement holder . |
| 20 | The very first effect of the absence of parental love is that the parent has no gentle sanction whereby the civilising process and the ensuing conscience can be started . |
| 21 | The obvious implication is that the writer had experienced the order a just king could create , and was writing after the establishment of the monarchy . |
| 22 | All i can say , with respect , is that the writer has not kept one . |
| 23 | The third , which is most likely to be important in long-distance homing , is that the animal has an internal ‘ map ’ sense , and can both estimate its own map reference , and knows that of the home site . |
| 24 | The one good thing that 's come out of this is that the speculators have been shaken out . |
| 25 | The stark fact is that the Quakers have failed to achieve back-to-back victories since an encouraging start to the season when they won their first two games . |
| 26 | An encouraging development is that the opportunity has been given for a submission to be made in early autumn on behalf of the preserved railway movement to the House of Commons Select Committee which will be dealing with the Government 's privatisation proposals . |
| 27 | My only comment is that the Quarterly has done it again . |
| 28 | Broadcasters are quick to jump on the Press when they feel public opinion is that the papers have Gone Too Far . |
| 29 | The difference between a simple detective story and a novel is that the novel has — sometimes unknown to the author — a theme . |
| 30 | Another reason why so many women reject the battery of contraceptive weapons on offer at the family planning clinic is that the arsenal has not been designed with their needs in mind . |