Example sentences of "main [noun] [be] that the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main hypothesis is that the social adaptation results in an informal regulation of work-performance to meet the requirement that ‘ actual ’ effort expended by workers of equal status should be rewarded equally . |
| 2 | The main difficulty is that the non-business sector is not a homogeneous group of organizations . |
| 3 | Yet even here there are minefields , for the report of a group of Commonwealth experts is likely to be the basis for the discussion on the environment , and its main recommendation is that the developed countries should foot the bill for the under-developed to adopt environment-friendly means of production . |
| 4 | The main obstacle was that the only time available for training was late at night . |
| 5 | The grouping of the predator species in terms of incisor loss is almost exactly the same as other indicators of mandibular damage , and the main difference is that the snowy owl , which produced slightly ambivalent results for mandibular breakage , has low proportions of incisor loss ( Table 3.8 ) . |
| 6 | Photoionization is like electronic excitation ; the main difference is that the upper state is an ion . |
| 7 | They found that there was relatively good agreement between reports given on the road and in the laboratory , the main difference was that the total level of report was 21% higher in the laboratory . |
| 8 | The main premise is that the corporatist strategies developed almost universally by authoritarian regimes in order to organize and control civil society , serve simultaneously to create the political context for popular responses ; and special attention will therefore be paid to the ways in which unions , community groups and parties find the political space to organize within the institutions of these regimes . |
| 9 | But Dear and Wolch 's main point is that the daily lives of those dependent on welfare are suffused in largely intangible and invisible ways by the institutions on which they are dependent . |
| 10 | The main point was that the total genetic capacity of a species may increase due to gene duplication . |
| 11 | But his main point was that the English did not settle in Gascony : ‘ no colonial dependency of England ’ , he concluded , ‘ has ever offered a similar parallel , nor , it may safely be said , ever will . |
| 12 | His main point was that the marked differences in income and wealth persisted between the social classes throughout the inter-war years had provoked little animus and a remarkably timid response from the working class . |
| 13 | The main complaint was that the whole thing was a fraud , which could be proved because , as everyone knew … leprechauns canna write ! |
| 14 | The main block is that the London-based mandarins of the BCS still appear to see the world from the seventies standpoint of the large data processing installation or university department , full of Cobol or Fortran programmers , churning out hand-crafted systems for mainframes . |
| 15 | The Institute 's main concern is that the new entities should be expressly subject to national legislation governing the activity undertaken . |
| 16 | His main concern was that the National government had not sufficiently registered the fact that if Spain fell into fascist hands France would then be surrounded by fascist powers — Germany , Italy and Spain . |
| 17 | His main thesis is that the empirical evidence does not validate the instrumental account . |
| 18 | His main thesis was that the rapid rise in earnings in advanced industrial societies was due to a large extent to improvements in the education and skills of workers . |
| 19 | The main principle is that the secretarial aspect should not be allowed to predominate in the assessment while the more complex aspects of composition are ignored . |
| 20 | The main problem is that the stored sound can be lost when the thin layer of aluminium which coats a CD 's plastic surface is oxidised , losing its ability to reflect laser light . |
| 21 | Possibly the main problem is that the Keynesian model is only short-term and in the short-run , it is not always easy to predict the effects of policy changes , and the management of the economy , therefore , may become very erratic . |
| 22 | The main problem was that the socio-political implications of scientific and technological change were not thought through thoroughly . |
| 23 | Its main feature is that the chosen contractor offers a comprehensive package comprising the site and a completed building . |
| 24 | But functionalism also operates specifically to deny housework 's status as work ; indeed , one of its main premises is that the feminine role in the family is opposed to the masculine role precisely on this dimension . |