Example sentences of "is [that] [noun] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | What he does n't seem to know is that Albie had been talking to Carmichael . |
| 2 | The next possibility is that Stalin had planned a ‘ near miss ’ followed by a purge . |
| 3 | In Britain the assumption is that citizens have no right to official information , and receive only what the government chooses to tell them . |
| 4 | The answer is that Morrissey has never quite achieved ten such desirable plaudits , even with his Smiths output chucked in . |
| 5 | Other news is that Rohan have re-designed their full-length salopettes which were once leaders in the field . |
| 6 | What I find strange is that England have got nothing to do with our tour of Ireland and Wales , yet they get the big game and all the money . ’ |
| 7 | What might be forgotten is that Land had spent years in the laboratory perfecting the polarization process , schooling his scientific and inventive abilities , practising and repeating , learning his craft . |
| 8 | The rhetoric of the Right in recent years , is that women have acquired rights and opportunities in the public world , especially in the labour market , but this , it is alleged has been at the expense of their families . |
| 9 | What is happening is that women have shown their competence in practice and this has helped to change machista attitudes . |
| 10 | The truth is that things had reached the stage where manufacturers had no more cloth left to cut — hence the race to convince more users to buy more features than they may need . |
| 11 | The advantage of this method is that profits are normally taxed only once ; the drawback is that firms have some leeway to relocate profits , paying inflated prices for imports from group subsidiaries in low-tax countries . |
| 12 | Presumably the justification is that D has already crossed a high moral/social threshold in choosing to commit such a serious offence , and should therefore be held liable for whatever consequences ensue , however unforeseeable they may be . |
| 13 | The idea behind it is that Arnie has to move along an ever-scrolling backdrop , punching and headbutting all and sundry while ducking underneath projectiles hurled by his assailants . |
| 14 | The implication is that Saruman has been led from ethically neutral researches into the kind of wanton pollution and love of dirt we see in ‘ The Scouring of the Shire ’ by something corrupting in the love of machines or in the very desire for control over the natural world . |
| 15 | The result is that Jarvis has put on more than half a stone — he 's up to 11 and ahalf now — and feels all the better for it . |
| 16 | The significant fact here is that Horace has his metre-bound say in three words ; of the renderings quoted , only one is as brief ( Leishman ) , the others running from five words ( Raffel ) to eight words ( Housman ) . |
| 17 | One of the problems they face , however , is that hotels have a relatively long pay-back period . |
| 18 | The truth is that Cortot had neither the time nor the inclination to polish his performances to a high degree of perfection . |
| 19 | What is worse is that managers have been downgraded in comparison . |
| 20 | We can each supply our own particulars but the important point is that Rich has set us going with her place — her place that grows out of memory . |
| 21 | The most likely explanation for the recent record levels of libel awards is that juries have confused these two functions , and part of the blame must lie with judges for having failed adequately to explain to juries the purpose of their damages award . |
| 22 | ‘ What 's lucky is that Harry had the sense to take you with him . |
| 23 | The hypothesis is that adults have available both ways of developing competence in a second language . |
| 24 | Stuart Anderson , their secretary , says : ‘ The general message is that Kent have put their house in order , turned the corner and are confident that improvements on the field will be matched by overall prosperity . ’ |
| 25 | It is natural to ask … why it is that countries have Constitutions , why most of them make the Constitution superior to the ordinary law , and , further , why Britain , at any rate , has no Constitution , in this sense , at all . |
| 26 | Is my hon. Friend aware that the main barrier to CHP is that producers have to sell their electricity to the pool and then buy it back at a much higher — an uplift price ? |
| 27 | What is important is that Hepzibah 's got to leave Druid 's Bottom . |
| 28 | The other is that Japan has , for the next decade anyway , an easy way of expanding its labour force even though population growth is slowing down . |
| 29 | One of the American complaints against Japan is that Japan has had access to US government-funded research while denying foreign companies access to research funded by the Japanese government . |
| 30 | The other view is that institutions have just evolved . |