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

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1 The Convention does not prescribe the language to be used in responding to the Letter ; the normal expectation is that the language to be used will be that in which the Letter was sent , but documents and evidence taken orally will be sent in the original language , whatever that may be .
2 Similarly the normal expectation is that the discourse will be coherent .
3 The great advantage over owning a holiday home in the normal way is that the buyer only pays for one week instead of fifty-two .
4 If difficulty is encountered , the normal result is that the input is disrupted in various ways .
5 Judging from remarks between Mr Carnwath , Mr Steele ( QC for Dyfed County Council ) and Mr Burrell , the prevailing view is that the inspector will find against McAlpine , but that the company will seek a Judicial Review in the High Court , where the arguments will recommence at a rarefied legal level .
6 The interest from the water-treatment aspect is that the cat ion-exchange can be reversed .
7 The strong implication is that the UK will be increasingly dependent on Scotch Whisky for its positive contribution to the trade balance .
8 Another possible way of resolving the difficulty where the sole evidence is that the defendant was actually fighting is to say that , in the course of the fight , there is a series of threatening gestures , each one of which constitutes a fresh offence .
9 The sole requirement is that the material is relevant to the particular industry which the magazine covers and , preferably , that it is fairly new stuff .
10 The odd thing is that the earliest models — unstreamlined and primitive ( thermostats were n't available until the 20s ) — seem just the thing you 'd see in today 's trendy kitchen .
11 The odd thing is that the resulting book will have precisely the opposite effect on most readers .
12 The odd thing is that the larval eels take around a year and a half to make the passage .
13 The greatest difference is that the Marshall plan was reviving economies which , even in the case of Germany , had experienced bureaucratic control for a relatively short period .
14 An obvious advantage of the hierarchical model is that the reinvestigation is conducted by more experienced investigators .
15 The strange thing is that the SERC itself has looked at similar issues in a report on the ‘ decline in physics ’ ( ie ‘ little ’ as opposed to ‘ big ’ physics , which includes the solid state physics that underpins materials science and microelectronics ) .
16 The professional assessment is that the Mitre ball is heavier when it flies through the air and therefore lends itself to greater accuracy .
17 But , apart from this consideration , the right view is that the conditions of the contract must be strictly performed .
18 The awful thing is that the movies that I 've been involved with in the last erm few years have entailed my being abroad a great deal , and I was made in New York entirely and I was there for six or seven months , and the difficulty is that when you then make the movie and you take it round the world , you 're away for another three or four months and so you end up being out of the country for quite a long time , so I 've been nothing like as active with the university .
19 The essential feature of the administrative model is that the functions of assessment and provision are separated from one another and the case manager relies heavily on linkage and brokerage .
20 The problem for the Labour party is that the latter category is declining in size : more workers are buying their own homes .
21 The usual outcome is that the weaker , more dependent individuals are blamed for family problems .
22 The usual rule is that the tax is imposed only on income exceeding about three times the average net personal income per worker in the social sector of the given republic or province .
23 One of the significant benefits of using the medium of the free newspapers is that the information will get to those special needs groups ( women , ethnic , disabled ) who , for a variety of reasons , may not have access to other newspapers .
24 The problem for the Free Presbyterians is that the fraternal orders have always seen themselves as linking the broad Protestant religious tradition with the main unionist party , hence the common arrangement of Orange Lodges holding their annual church parades at each of the Church of Ireland , Presbyterian , and Methodist churches in turn .
25 ( The further implication is that the change in the effectiveness of the stimulus that is responsible for latent inhibition is not susceptible to the effects of heightened arousal . )
26 One consequence of the primacy of the metric equation is that the Gaussian curvature is a function of the coefficients in the metric equation .
27 The historical fact is that the settlement of 1688–1701 failed to settle everything ; it failed to provide for all contingencies .
28 What it means for the broader economy is that the current housing crisis is more serious than ever , and there does n't seem to be an end in sight .
29 The broader inference is that the MARID rocks , related metasomites , megacrysts and polymict xenoliths found at Kimberley all formed in the upper mantle beneath the Kaapvaal craton over a short interval coincident with kimberlite generation and eruption .
30 What I can say to the hon. Gentleman is that the Government are willing to consider any claim where any evidence can be adduced of exposure to radiation .
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