Example sentences of "[noun sg] is that the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Current thinking is that the whole word recognition approach is not viable for the more general problem with large vocabularies ( Tappert et al , 1990 ) . |
| 2 | And the cause is manifest in every sordid glimpse we gain of their parents and their homes … the enduring lesson to be learned from this painful wartime experiment is that the primary aim of education must be to produce not merely cleverer children , but in the next generation wiser parents |
| 3 | The partnership is that the public sector provides funding — on a contracted , targeted basis — but the voluntary group provides the policy , the strategy design , the management skills and administration of the initiative . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But what must astonish us , I think , more than the details of violence is that the only charges brought as a result of this death were against three men who were charged with assault and punished with a 20 shillings ' fine , with the additional requirement that they should pay the doctor 's bill on the dead man . |
| 6 | What is truly bizarre about this tragic episode is that the Mendelian camp had , in Kammerer 's extraordinary results , dramatic evidence in support of their own theory . |
| 7 | The result is that the key leaders of worship fail to relate properly and their dealings with one another are inhibited by suspicion and threat . |
| 8 | The result is that the surviving text of the Interludium de Clerico et Puella looks quite different from Dame Sirith : it looks like an anticlerical play . |
| 9 | The net result is that the total energy return is less than the input . |
| 10 | The result is that the final confrontation with the evil Sangrado , the melodramatic scene of occult horror from which Margarita is rescued and the revelation of her true identity , take on a particular sharpness of surprise , a tone of active , romantic effort quite different from the tensions of Sard 's wanderings . |
| 11 | The result is that the practical definition of obscenity has been decided by middle-aged-to-elderly professional men . |
| 12 | In Fig. 11–8 the result is that the marginal cost curve is shifted to the right ( i.e. MC shifts to MC' ) . |
| 13 | The result is that the growing ferrets show no shyness to human contact . |
| 14 | The result is that the main characters in À la Recherche are not by any means all of a piece . |
| 15 | One result is that the old parties face a growing challenge from new groups led by energetic men who have been excluded from the ruling class because of their race or their class . |
| 16 | The net result is that the Scottish Office and the National Farmers ' Union of Scotland are trying hard to get the message across — tackle the forms immediately with the 15 May deadline in mind . |
| 17 | The irony is that the Labour government has set up and funded handsomely a Royal Commission on Social Policy which will make its report at the end of 1988 . |
| 18 | The irony is that the costly approval-procedures which drug firms so regularly complain about can be their best shield against liability claims . |
| 19 | In pondering these options , the key point to bear in mind is that the only way a society can get a rich future is by engineering a rich economy . |
| 20 | One problem with analysing fraud is that the official statistics do not record the class or occupation of the offender , nor the detail of the offence . |
| 21 | The long-term prediction is that the only defence against AIDS lies in effecting behavioural changes and anthropologists are being employed to study behavioural aspects . |
| 22 | The general prediction is that the overall size of the age group will fall by 1993 to two thirds of its 1981 peak . |
| 23 | One of the most interesting findings to come out of recent research is that the visual system consists of a set of circuits arranged in parallel , rather than an hierarchically organized cascade . |
| 24 | As we approach Christmas the real tragedy is that the vast majority of our friends — good , sincere people , most of them — will not get within a mile of the real meaning of Christmas . |
| 25 | Now , it 's not then that society does n't believe in the supernatural , we believe in the supernatural , society at large believes in the supernatural , the tragedy is that the natural man , the natural person however , as always is more willing to believe Satan 's mysteries than he is to believe God 's mysteries . |
| 26 | Finally , a pertinent finding of the present study is that the protective effect of dietary calcium on the lytic activity of faecal water correlated with its effect on the concentrations of soluble fatty acids and bile acids ( Fig 6 ) , but not with their total concentrations ( Fig 4 ) . |
| 27 | The postulate put forward in this study is that the potential meaning of to before the infinitive is more abstract than that found in the spatial use of the preposition , and can be stated as follows : the possibility of a movement from a point in time conceived as a before-position to another point in time which marks the end-point of the movement and which represents an after-position with respect to the first . |
| 28 | Perhaps the best indication is that the initial flight , which was scheduled for 20 minutes , lasted well over an hour . |
| 29 | What happens in practice is that the overall system forecasts which timber is available for harvesting , but local managers adapt those forecasts to help meet other objectives . |
| 30 | Whatever people might think about DHSS money , what it has meant in practice is that the global sum of money to help provide for the needs of people with dementia or other long-term needs is much greater than it would have been if they were not attracting DHSS supplementation . |