Example sentences of "main [noun] is 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 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 ) . |
| 5 | Photoionization is like electronic excitation ; the main difference is that the upper state is an ion . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Their main conclusion is that the earliest occupants of the Klasies River Mouth site ( before 100 000 years ago ) were modern-looking people ( Homo sapiens sapiens ) who would have been ancestral to the indigenous African Negro and Klioisan peoples . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Institute 's main concern is that the new entities should be expressly subject to national legislation governing the activity undertaken . |
| 11 | His main thesis is that the empirical evidence does not validate the instrumental account . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Its main feature is that the chosen contractor offers a comprehensive package comprising the site and a completed building . |
| 16 | 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 . |