Example sentences of "is that the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ But the important thing at this stage is that the right decision has been made for the athletes . |
| 3 | The danger for almost all golfers is that the right side tends to be dominant at the start of the downswing . |
| 4 | The reason for this is that the long run incentive to exploit a conflict of interest may not exist . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Over at Ibrox , the news for their fans is that the long injury list is continuing to shorten . |
| 9 | The problem is that the second question can not be answered until Washington comes up with a consensus on the first . |
| 10 | The feature in question is that the second half of a parallelistic couplet ( line B ) is often more precise or specific than the first half ( line A ) . |
| 11 | And the other thing is that the second year 's payment is taken out a year 's later through the same banker 's order . |
| 12 | One important aspect of attributing differences to biology as opposed to attributing them to culture is that the second type of explanation leaves room for views to change , while the former appears to rule this out . |
| 13 | The point is that the second version contains superfluous and irrelevant information , though this would not necessarily be the case if we were explaining what we do in the morning to an ( English-speaking ! ) |
| 14 | NACAB 's fourth point is that the present scheme is deficient on grounds of equity . |
| 15 | One is that the present level of unemployment must concern the health service ( and 1 have said nothing about other social problems ! ) . |
| 16 | All that we are concerned to ensure is that the present applicants have a proper opportunity of obtaining the evidence they seek so that the grave allegations which they make — the very same allegations that troubled this court sufficiently to allow the appellant 's appeal — can be properly tested in the courts . |
| 17 | Another point which has given me some concern is that the present book is supposed to be a directory of Cabinet Committees . |
| 18 | The most interesting fact revealed about Norma is that the poor dear is obviously deranged . |
| 19 | The second reason for taking the ‘ non-party ’ claim seriously is that the various Leagues — and not just the three studied by Coetzee — were frequently critical of the Conservative party and expressed strong reservations about the effectiveness of the Conservatives as a political force . |
| 20 | The implicit but unstated assumption is that the various forms of provision , ranging from residential to long-stay geriatric care , are entirely substitutable . |
| 21 | The overall conclusion to be drawn from this discussion is that the various lags can complicate the business of macroeconomic management , and may even make it counter-productive . |
| 22 | The idea is that the various farm based tourist attractions get together to help bring in the visitors . |
| 23 | Note that the reason for the rise in the equilibrium rate of interest is that the higher income level will have brought forth an increased transactions demand for money . |
| 24 | Our only alternative explanation is that the higher referral rates in the fundholding group compared with non-fundholding group in the year before the introduction of fundholding represent an atypical year for these practices . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The trouble is that the revised version of the legend of the Courts of Love is as ill-founded as the old one . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The fact is that the Liberal Party declined quickly . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The problem for the Free Presbyterians is that the fraternal orders have always seen themselves as linking the broad Protestant religious tradition with the main unionist party , hence the common arrangement of Orange Lodges holding their annual church parades at each of the Church of Ireland , Presbyterian , and Methodist churches in turn . |