Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [be] that [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	‘ The result is that everybody in the area is delighted . ’
2	The result was that one round ‘ cooked-off ’ and fired into the fin and rudder .
3	The fear is that we as a country in general , and Lowestoft in particular , will lose on quota swaps , as my hon. Friend the Minister acknowledged .
4	The plan is that none of these people will be able to purchase any of the seven thousand tickets available to England for the first round matches .
5	Due to the low pay offered the likelihood was that anyone with creative talent would be attracted to a better-paid job elsewhere .
6	The point is that none of those was accompanied by an earthquake .
7	The drawback is that lots of people use them and that lots and lots of people will want to use it on precisely the night you require to be there .
8	The trouble is that none of the three firms is nearly as Japanese as the owners would like it to be .
9	The trouble was that none of us could understand it .
10	The reason was that none of these reforms shifted the balance of power within the social structure of the village .
11	The problem is that we as a nation continue to expect a clinical quart out of an economic pint .
12	The problem was that nobody from The Smiths camp was prepared to actually inform the band of this decision , and it was left to Easterhouse manager John Barrett to discover the sad truth almost by accident .
13	The problem was that none of the pilots were really confident of their navigation , the sand storm having obliterated the landmarks they were relying on .
14	In essence , the problem was that none of these terms could be defined ‘ objectively ’ .
15	The trouble with the menopause is that everyone around the woman going through it suffers too .
16	The first thing to be said in relation to the merits of the appeal is that none of the parties to the appeal , all represented here today , opposes it .

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