Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] is that a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The normal expectation is that a Request for Exclusive Acquisition Advice will result in a fee-paying engagement for the participating member 's firm . |
| 2 | The preferable proposal is that a sergeant is redeployed from from another town in and er I wo n't mention where I have my beady eye |
| 3 | But the lesson from the Iraqi experience is that a regime that behaves badly to its own people is likely to behave badly to its neighbours too . |
| 4 | ‘ The only true part of the old story is that a meteorite hit that hill way back in the late nineteenth century and dug a damn big crater there . ’ |
| 5 | The principal disadvantage is that a limited company invariably incurs some additional costs . |
| 6 | It is doubtful if the corridors of Whitehall and the British civil service will quite match this record , but the simple point is that a host of records of potential interest to the historian that would have manifested themselves on paper will no longer do so . |
| 7 | The imperial ruling is that a trust in favour of her brother ( as intestate heir ) must be construed . |
| 8 | However , some breeding takes place in thermal reactors , so the actual gain is that a fast reactor can generate about sixty times as much electricity as a thermal reactor from each tonne of uranium . |
| 9 | The central problem is that a political party is ill-equipped to debate policy or philosophy because unity , not intellectual openness , is its highest virtue . |
| 10 | They 're reduced to five thousand with short commons and sickness , and the extra irony is that a cargo ship diverted from Chios got in just before the port closed . |
| 11 | The second qualification is that an innocent party who accepts an anticipatory breach becomes under a duty to mitigate ( minimise ) his loss . |
| 12 | The second possibility is that a bank could rearrange its assets by selling securities . |
| 13 | The second problem is that a lax competition policy might be used by a member state as a substitute for trade policy or industrial policy , to protect domestic producers or to promote export sectors . |
| 14 | The second thing is that a child 's fear of failure is probably greater than you think . |
| 15 | The second point is that a small energy input into the thermostat can release a large quantity of energy from the boiler . |
| 16 | The second reason is that a company 's auditors are expected , because of their statutory duties and position under the Companies Acts , to be independent of the shareholders in the company . |
| 17 | The second reason is that an appeal triggers a reconsideration of the case by an adjudication officer , who may revise the decision in the claimant 's favour forthwith . |
| 18 | While only Superman or Wonderwoman could have detected the gap between crease and outstretched bat as the bails were dislodged , the all-important fact is that a million or two television viewers on that Australia Day were shown the truth on the slow-motion replay . |
| 19 | The crucial difference is that a trust could be set up with a non-heir as trustee , whereas legacies remained always bound to the need for an heir to discharge them . |
| 20 | The reward for the hard work is that a much better system of advanced courses is now in place , giving better service to employers and providing candidates with many more opportunities , with greater flexibility and with greatly improved progression routes from National Certificate Modules all the way through to degrees . |
| 21 | The inevitable result is that a family 's capital base will be both eroded and diffused to the point where maintaining a large house becomes impossible . |
| 22 | The inevitable result is that a plant young in years becomes old and senile in form and shape . |
| 23 | The basic concept is that a target for a work element is set in man hours and at the end of each week the difference between the target hours , and actual hours worked is paid as a bonus to the operative . |
| 24 | The basic idea is that a few parameters are turned into a smooth curve by a standardised computation . |
| 25 | Then , the basic result is that a new solution of the source-free equations , depending on an arbitrary real parameter x , is given by ( 12.23 ) where ( 12.24 ) It can be seen that f and g are respectively the norm and twist potential of the Killing field . |
| 26 | In this the basic assumption is that a particular change is but one part of a dynamic , continuous process in which the users are engaged . |
| 27 | The unfortunate thing is that a good part of it came from an unexpected direction . |
| 28 | The neo-classical view is that a perfectly competitive economy always tends towards its full employment equilibrium position . |
| 29 | In the end the government was forced to make a minor concession , and the present position is that a second ballot will be held if fewer than 50 per cent of those eligible record a vote on the first occasion . |
| 30 | The key recommendation is that a workforce should be recruited and trained to bring five million energy-inefficient homes to current building standards at a cost of £2–3,000 each or a total of £40–45 billion . |