Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [adv] that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result is not that the user of the aid hears the phone conversation , but rather that there is a loud hum which drowns out everything else . |
| 2 | The second reason for the constancy is simply that the ocean is heated from above , by the Sun . |
| 3 | The explanation for this effect is presumably that the very early events in the cascade of memory formation involve electrical activity within the neurons and that the immediate shock disrupts this process ; by the time the delayed shock is given , however , the cascade is already past this phase , and is no longer vulnerable . |
| 4 | The fear is always that the outside will be presented with the chance to gain knowledge and power at the expense of the institution ; although this is often only obliquely implied : |
| 5 | The problem of recruitment administration is not that the individual tasks are difficult , but that the addition of fluctuations in the level of activity makes them difficult . |
| 6 | It is often only when the battle is over that the divisions between allies become apparent . |
| 7 | It is also worth noting that dealing need not actually take place ; the minimum requirement is merely that the insider had reasonable cause to believe that dealing in the relevant shares would take place . |
| 8 | He does n't actually use the words but his philosophy is clearly that the New Zealand sojourn may have been the darkest hour but that the darkest hours comes before the dawning of a new day . |
| 9 | The likelihood is not that the whole system is ‘ switched off , but that parts of it are turned off in a very unsystematic way . |
| 10 | The eleventh-century claim that Merewalh , king of the Magonsaete , was also a son of Penda can not be authenticated , even though in the 740s Aethelbald , king of the Mercians , appears to describe Mildrith ( later regarded as the daughter of Merewalh and Aebbe ( Eafe ) , a Kentish princess ) as his kinswoman ( CS 177 : S 91 ) ; and the likelihood is not that the Magonsaete were a Mercian creation but that Mercian control was being imposed upon their territory across the mid-seventh century . |
| 11 | The reason for this difference is probably that the one wishes to justify cuts in welfare expenditure whereas the other is aiming for more direct state control of industry . |
| 12 | The the the difference is perhaps that the scientist will analyse |
| 13 | The danger is not that the courts will intervene too much , but too little . |
| 14 | The conclusion is either that the political and social message concerning older workers was not reaching employers , whose strategies were determined by other priorities , or that they put the immediate interests of the firm , as they defined them , before the longer-term interest of the national economy as the government was defining it . |
| 15 | The inference is therefore that the fish is either dead or cured by the time fungus gets around to colonising it . |
| 16 | It is pretty clear that while big business is being done in local area network hubs and routers , the market is very overcrowded , and in those circumstances , the outcome is usually that the rich get richer and the poor get taken over or go bust : observers reckon that in that context , the richest of the rich is Cisco Systems Inc , Menlo Park , which did $340m in the year to last July and is estimated to have at least 45% of the market and maybe as much as 50% ; Wellfleet Communications Inc is thought to be number two , with anything from 12% to 20% , with 3Com Corp third at around 10% , but in the hub sector alone , SynOptics Communications Inc is thought to have about 33% and Cabletron Systems Inc 15% , although the latter says the two are neck and neck . |
| 17 | The point is surely that the properties of being good and being yellow are not complex properties as being a horse is , which is ( we may take him to be supposing ) a matter of having a whole lot of simpler properties , such as having a certain sort of head , a certain sort of tail , and so forth . |
| 18 | The point is simply that the account of mental processes which folk psychology provides , constitutes an explanation at an appropriate level of abstraction for the purposes of explaining behaviour scientifically . |
| 19 | The point is simply that the potential benefits from regulation can be very large . |
| 20 | My point is simply that the decision to put something in other words is a decision about style , which like all decisions about style , is constrained by the search for relevance . |
| 21 | The point is not that the theological pronouncements of scientists are to be discounted but rather that they do sometimes have to be seen as efforts at mediation . |
| 22 | His point is not that the other two legs are invulnerable , but that far too much of America 's political energy has gone into discussing ICBMs and far too little into submarines , cruise missiles , stealth bombers ( which could be used against targets other than the Soviet Union ) and especially command and control centres . |
| 23 | The point is also that the raising of children is work . |
| 24 | The point is rather that the so-called independent check is a mere repetition of the procedure which it is supposed to be checking . |
| 25 | The point is now that the individual comes to fear wanting even to relate because the relationship itself might be destroyed . |
| 26 | My hon. Friend is right that the Labour party would be prepared to overrule parental ballots and to take grant-maintained schools back into the throes of LEA control , which is exactly what parents have voted to escape . |
| 27 | With opinion polls showing support for the party at its lowest mid-term level for decades , the common belief is not that the Government is out-of-touch or seen as tired and uncaring , but that it has n't gone far enough . |
| 28 | The argument is thus that the major purpose behind project work from a teacher 's point of view should be skill development rather than knowledge acquisition . |
| 29 | The argument is not that the check is fallible , for if it were we might still hope that enough memories could be got to prop each other up , as Ayer suggests ( Ayer , 1954 ) . |
| 30 | Our experience within the Metropolitan Police area is not that the police are suspicious of medical intervention but that they recognised — µespecially since the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 covering treatment of detained persons — that independent and effective medical intervention in police custody is in the interests of justice . |