Example sentences of "[num ord] [adj] [noun] is that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second striking principle is that the larvae that live in the plankton are not , usually , simply miniature or immature versions of the adults . |
| 2 | The second principal reason is that the Government 's announcement of the route from the east via Stratford throws the scheme into question . |
| 3 | The second major issue is that the theme of the sex fiend is much less marked than in the earlier search stage of the criminal investigation . |
| 4 | The second implicit proposition is that the diagnosis of a terminal illness does not mean that the doctor 's obligations to his patient cease . |
| 5 | The second general point is that the discussion on Greece and Rome shows that Engels thought that the general scheme of social causation developed by Marx for capitalism applied to pre-capitalist formations , so long as these were past the gens stages . |
| 6 | The second hopeful sign is that the state and its criminal justice system ( broadly conceived to include criminal , administrative , and civil law ) has shown itself receptive to arguments that corporate crime victims deserve protection and that corporate criminals deserve sanctioning , particularly when those arguments have been well orchestrated , empirically supported , and contain implicit electoral threats . |
| 7 | A second common assumption is that the sciences , generally , are more difficult than the humanities , and that within that , physics is more difficult than chemistry , which is more difficult than biology , and so on . |
| 8 | The first clear trend is that the dispersion of gross earnings among male manual workers has changed very little during the last hundred years . |
| 9 | The first standard problem is that the market is not perfectly competitive . |
| 10 | The first major point is that the text is basically in two parts : sentences 1–6 and sentences 7–15 . |
| 11 | ( A third possible explanation is that the whole story was made up , to impress unbelievers , by the apostle Matthew or whoever wrote the gospel ascribed to him . |
| 12 | The third major point is that the reporting of the trials marks out the boundaries of ‘ acceptable ’ behaviour not only by gender , but also by class , race and age . |
| 13 | The third key characteristic is that the actual value of all the variables which according to equation ( 6.7 ) determine should be known at the end of period t - 1 ; otherwise they can not be used to predict . |