Example sentences of "the reality [is] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The reality is that workers at Dagenham can get jobs elsewhere and their colleagues at Halewood ca n't , ’ said Professor Rhys . |
| 2 | The reality is that it is extraordinarily difficult to get any change in these kinds of laws — as the last 30 years of procedural mugging by both sides shows in relation to abortion , and the five-year gestation period of this Bill shows with regard to experimenting . |
| 3 | We have to accept that the reality is that we are always already on the slope , holding a position . |
| 4 | It could n't matter less what the AMDEA happens to think about global warming ; the reality is that changes in the European Community will force all European manufacturers to meet higher standards . |
| 5 | What he calls the ‘ fancy explanation ’ for this architectural love is that he was baptised in a Romanesque font in the Dorset village of Stoke Abbot , but the reality is that as a student at Durham he was profoundly influenced by the majestic presence of the cathedral : |
| 6 | The reality is that they need to get their hands on as much first-class football as they can to fill that much air time . |
| 7 | The reality is that the popular committees are not being funded by anyone … rather they are responding to the lack of funding of the community services [ i.e. by the authorities ] by trying to organise their own . |
| 8 | The reality is that few of you will be as fortunate . |
| 9 | The reality is that having a comprehensive and fairly-balanced service agreement is a tremendous advantage to any executive , but it is not in itself enough . |
| 10 | On the other hand , if the reality is that you have mutually agreed to the ending of the contract , then you will not be entitled to dismissal rights . |
| 11 | Despite popular mythology concerning ‘ evil ’ and vicious species that track down their victims ruthlessly and mercilessly , the reality is that no venom , no poison , no bite , no sting , is ever administered except under extreme provocation or simply by accident , unless the victim is either a potential prey or a rival belonging to the same species . |
| 12 | ‘ The reality is that it 's very difficult for couples to have single friends unless both of you like them , ’ says Jane Hawksley . |
| 13 | The reality is that there are few harsher selection processes than the PGA European Tour 's and the reason is , of course , the high demand for a limited number of places . |
| 14 | The reality is that the present intelligent and moderate leaderships of the unions pay up money out of a mixture of sentiment , good will and habit . |
| 15 | So the reality is that , in the last seven months , the Taylors have had to make a radical reassessment of family expectations . |
| 16 | The reality is that it was beaten long ago . |
| 17 | The reality is that a child is a time-consuming , all-engulfing creature who disrupts any semblance of pleasurable home life . |
| 18 | The reality is that the six months of the British presidency have brought the EC to the brink of crisis . |
| 19 | The reality is that in most cases it is hard to prove the cheque was issued ‘ knowingly ’ . |
| 20 | Despite the political rhetoric of the modern welfare state , which has created popular images to the contrary , the reality is that the basic state retirement pension continues to provide an income between a third and a half of average earnings . |
| 21 | The reality is that both public and private sector companies are part of the nation 's assets … . |
| 22 | The reality is that people of all groups face similar economic pressures to work and obtain adequate housing . |
| 23 | But the reality is that the city — larger than Manchester — has its own fair share of muggers , murderers , and drug addicts . |
| 24 | The reality is that teachers do feel good about what they are doing , but that the occasions on which they do so are often conspicuous more by their rarity than their regularity . |
| 25 | The theory is that if museums save on salaries and paper clips they will have more money to spend on works of art ; the reality is that they will almost certainly be saving on the works of art to make up for inadequate funding overall . |
| 26 | The reality is that mainframes are more likely to co-exist with other systems than be eradicated altogether . |
| 27 | The reality is that the scheme has so far been limited to a small number of well managed practices , which for the most part were generously funded and chosen to succeed . |
| 28 | The reality is that we are conservative in our appreciation of others ' abilities and we are reticent and uncertain about our own . |
| 29 | Yet the reality is that , within even a small group of people at work , there will be significant differences in the way they perform their jobs . |
| 30 | Yet the reality is that it is only in companies where each shareholder has a sufficiently substantial stake in the company to make it worth his or her while performing the tasks of monitoring and supervising the behaviour of the directors that this constitutional framework can hope to provide an adequate control on the behaviour of directors . |