Example sentences of "[is] [that] the [noun] [noun] be " in BNC.

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1 ‘ What angers me about the system goes beyond the unreliability of ‘ proof ’ … it 's that the way criminals are dealt with has nothing to do with rehabilitation and readjusting people who 've stepped outside society 's norms .
2 It is relatively easy for an admissions authority to admit in excess of the standard number , provided various conditions are met — of which the most important is that the school buildings are adequate to accommodate the new number .
3 A key assumption is that the money supply is exogenous — uninfluenced by economic activity — but is controllable by the monetary authorities .
4 The obvious reason for that is that the state pension is low .
5 A problem pointed out by several guests is that the bar facilities are not conducive to confidential discussions with colleagues .
6 An alternative is that the neutron star was in fact formed recently , in the accretion-induced collapse of a white dwarf following accretion from a lower-mass companion .
7 The only procedural defect alleged in M. 's appeal is that the committal order was not served on M. personally , or , alternatively , that he was not served until 3 July , nearly a month after he had been committed to prison .
8 The result is that the relay RLA is heard to click at the end of the timing period , but the timer re-starts as it is caused to re-commence timing for a further period .
9 The bullish spread , as its name suggests , indicates an optimism about the future of the share price whereas the bearish money spread is pessimistic in that the balance of expectations is that the share price is more likely to fall .
10 The other aspect of the MacSharry proposals is that the compensation terms are incredibly generous .
11 The principal difference between the two is that the Poll Tax is a charge on individuals and the Business Rate is a charge on business properties .
12 have to tell Bob whatever he might like to talk about that he turns it to the Poll Tax , the fact of the matter is that the Poll Tax is nothing to do with Oxfordshire County Council .
13 What is true though , is that the reincarnation tale was one of the tallest stories of them all .
14 The principle is that the hook bait is free enough to behave very similarly to loose fed baits , but that the carp suck it in so strongly they also suck in the large hook .
15 I mean , the real problem is that the rating system is out of date , it 's based on a rating valuation which was last updated in 1973 and has n't been updated since .
16 Thing is that the furniture trade was really booming then , begin that was in the thir you know in the th er early thirties that was the
17 The professional assessment is that the Mitre ball is heavier when it flies through the air and therefore lends itself to greater accuracy .
18 By three to five years after surgery the actuarial survival rate exceeded that of a control population.This enhanced survival may reflect the fact that patients referred for surgery were highly selected , and an important limitation of these data is that the selection criteria were not explicit .
19 THE FIRST thing you notice about this is that the CD package is upside down .
20 THE FIRST thing you notice about this is that the CD package is upside down .
21 His argument is that the density wave is of a different kind , the so called long wave mode , which propagates from the centre of the Galaxy outward , such a wave pattern rotates much more rapidly than the short wave mode and it just happens that , if this picture is correct , our Solar System is almost exactly at the place in our Galaxy where it orbits at the same speed as the wave ( Astrophysics and Space Science , vol 89 , p 61 ) .
22 When we run the satellite sequence , you can see all the cloud that moved in from the west overnight and the good news is that the back edge is not too far away .
23 For all Mellor 's protestations that the tabloids brought him down in an attempt to dictate to the Prime Minister who should be in his Cabinet , the truth is that the Heritage Secretary was rejected by his peers .
24 A basic assumption of the Saint-Venant theory is that the displacement U is given by where the axis of the twisted cylinder lies along the 3-direction and f1 is a function of only , determining the warping of the cross-section .
25 The reason for this is that the trust funds are not owned by the authority , they are being administered on behalf of the bequeathers .
26 ‘ A common public perception is that the Aquino government is doing something that goes against the time-honoured Filipino tradition and cultural values , ’ said Alvin Capino , a newspaper columnist .
27 Sentence ( 14 ) above can therefore be diagrammed in the following way : As for the presence of a before/after relation , the impression that comes through constantly with the use of to is that the infinitive event is depicted as a consequence or result of the action of helping .
28 If parliamentary self-government is the essence of British liberty , the condition upon which we enjoy it is that the United Kingdom is politically distinct and separate .
29 The old answer to sceptical Americans , trotted out by Europeans whenever transatlantic ties were strained in the past , is that the United States is in Europe defending its own interests , not just those of Europe .
30 But the basic trouble in the Gulf is that the United States is exclusively geared to fight a major world-scale war , and its forces can not fight any other , not even against enemies the size of Grenada and Panama .
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