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

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1 The result is that all the other countries which buy US manufactured aircraft are fitted with poor quality CVR installations unless , like new Zealand , they go out of their way to require ‘ hot mike ’ systems .
2 The benefit is that all the tax reclaimed is dealt with by somebody other than the charity .
3 The danger is that all the good , solid work will be thrown away .
4 What I 'll do darling is that all the tiles will come through about there
5 The important conclusion is that all the cells in the body contain the same genetic information ; what makes the cells different is how that genetic information is used .
6 The the other factor is that that the negotiations with the bank erm to pay two pound fifty per quarter erm should have been erm reviewed last December .
7 ‘ What I like about old furniture is that all the pieces are favourites , ’ she says .
8 What I like about old furniture is that all the pieces are favourites
9 A common grumble is that all the wealth created by the recent growth has found its way into the trousers of the elite .
10 If a candidate is elected with a surplus at a later count the probability is that both the votes previously given to him and the votes immediately responsible for his surplus will include votes already transferred at earlier stages .
11 The reason is that all the weapons must fit inside the radar-screening fuselage to prevent their unstealthy shapes from giving the aircraft away .
12 The third reason is that all the Community countries are collectively committed to the principle of an international conference for handling the Middle East 's problems .
13 An important feature of this book is that all the activities described can be used not only with the sample material provided , but also with other materials of the teacher 's own choice .
14 What is clear from the above account is that all the transactions covering the 17 months to May 1990 are inextricably linked .
15 One advantage of a letter is that all the points ( 1 ) to ( 4 ) can be dealt with in advance and so the interviewer is expected and time is saved in not having to go through all the verbal explanations .
16 The difficulty with this suggestion is that all the sceptical arguments presented , and indeed any interesting sceptical argument , seem to be directed as much against the notion of justified belief as against that of knowledge .
17 The short answer is that all the other trees are tall , so no one tree can afford not to be .
18 One explanation is that all the white holes are in an alternate universe .
19 One of the benefits to emerge from the recent recession is that all the players in management buy-outs — vendors , management teams , financial backers and advisers — are far more experienced and sophisticated in their approach .
20 2.40 The interesting thing about this particular case is that all the members of the House of Lords adopted a different approach from each other in assessing damages .
21 The difficulty is that all the religions of the world have text books which are still studied , which all say that women are stupid , women are wicked , women are property , and women are revolting !
22 Possibly its most endearing feature is that all the control is executed from the Macintosh , the PC can be connected locally or over a telephone line with modems and , apart from being started up , needs no attention .
23 The idea is that all the interviews should be conducted in as similar a way as possible , and that the dangers of ‘ interviewer effect ’ should be avoided by training .
24 The essential idea is that all the possible states of oscillation of light moving in the z direction can be made up of judicious mixtures of the two basic oscillations in the x and y directions .
25 But the fact is that all the other instances of union are just as swiftly broken up , disunited .
26 Perhaps the most important fact is that all the pigments used in Aquacryl are lightfast .
27 The fact is that all the examples adduced to support the proposition that there should be a qualitative — or ‘ radical ’ — extension of the role of trade unions into the management of the business employing their members fail at the crucial oint .
28 the only reason that police get away with drink driving is cos half the buggers are Masons and they give them the old funny hand shake and its oh on your way sir
29 Another daft view is that all the woes which have beset the Soviet Union and its satellites are because these countries did n't know how to run their economies .
30 The reason that this does not lead to any discrepancy with observation is that all the gravitational fields that we normally experience are very weak .
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