Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [conj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Current thinking is that the whole word recognition approach is not viable for the more general problem with large vocabularies ( Tappert et al , 1990 ) . |
| 2 | And the cause is manifest in every sordid glimpse we gain of their parents and their homes … the enduring lesson to be learned from this painful wartime experiment is that the primary aim of education must be to produce not merely cleverer children , but in the next generation wiser parents |
| 3 | You see , the human perception is that the thicker string feels different to the thin one , and so a balanced set of strings actually feels completely out of balance . |
| 4 | The partnership is that the public sector provides funding — on a contracted , targeted basis — but the voluntary group provides the policy , the strategy design , the management skills and administration of the initiative . |
| 5 | The crucial feature necessary for the occurrence of the special phenomena of double diffusive convection is that the two components should have different diffusivities . |
| 6 | Yet even here there are minefields , for the report of a group of Commonwealth experts is likely to be the basis for the discussion on the environment , and its main recommendation is that the developed countries should foot the bill for the under-developed to adopt environment-friendly means of production . |
| 7 | But what must astonish us , I think , more than the details of violence is that the only charges brought as a result of this death were against three men who were charged with assault and punished with a 20 shillings ' fine , with the additional requirement that they should pay the doctor 's bill on the dead man . |
| 8 | What is truly bizarre about this tragic episode is that the Mendelian camp had , in Kammerer 's extraordinary results , dramatic evidence in support of their own theory . |
| 9 | The result is that the key leaders of worship fail to relate properly and their dealings with one another are inhibited by suspicion and threat . |
| 10 | The result is that the surviving text of the Interludium de Clerico et Puella looks quite different from Dame Sirith : it looks like an anticlerical play . |
| 11 | The result is that the best qualified recruits for the Branch as Inspectors ( Operations ) tend to be in their late forties or early fifties , rather than the middle thirties as is preferred . |
| 12 | An obvious explanation for such a result is that the former compound evokes more suppression simply because the UR ( of suppression ) evoked by the novel stimulus combines with the CR elicited by the CS+ . |
| 13 | The general result is that the higher the correlation coefficient the lower the CD score and the better the diversification of risk . |
| 14 | The net result is that the total energy return is less than the input . |
| 15 | The result is that the final confrontation with the evil Sangrado , the melodramatic scene of occult horror from which Margarita is rescued and the revelation of her true identity , take on a particular sharpness of surprise , a tone of active , romantic effort quite different from the tensions of Sard 's wanderings . |
| 16 | The result is that the practical definition of obscenity has been decided by middle-aged-to-elderly professional men . |
| 17 | In Fig. 11–8 the result is that the marginal cost curve is shifted to the right ( i.e. MC shifts to MC' ) . |
| 18 | The result is that the growing ferrets show no shyness to human contact . |
| 19 | The result is that the main characters in À la Recherche are not by any means all of a piece . |
| 20 | The result is that the twenty features of the Patois competence scale can be grouped into five clusters . |
| 21 | One result is that the old parties face a growing challenge from new groups led by energetic men who have been excluded from the ruling class because of their race or their class . |
| 22 | The net result is that the Scottish Office and the National Farmers ' Union of Scotland are trying hard to get the message across — tackle the forms immediately with the 15 May deadline in mind . |
| 23 | Well the thing is you see I think wha from what I 've gathered on from the radio programme is that the actual erm the attitude of the kids to the metro had got so much worse that they 're having to do something about it |
| 24 | As the leading firms prepare to meet the challenge of the national lottery , the irony is that the first revamp of the format in 24 years will make the pools themselves more of a lottery . |
| 25 | The irony is that the Dutch , after nearly fifty years , still take the Germans to task , albeit jokingly , for having confiscated thousands of bicycles during the occupation . |
| 26 | The irony is that the Labour government has set up and funded handsomely a Royal Commission on Social Policy which will make its report at the end of 1988 . |
| 27 | The irony is that the costly approval-procedures which drug firms so regularly complain about can be their best shield against liability claims . |
| 28 | The irony is that the more people are encouraged to think about their behaviour and take responsibility for the impact it has on other people , the more they tend to become open and honest rather than furtive and clandestine . |
| 29 | Lord Mayor , I 'd like to get beyond the hype and because I suspect the real reason behind the criticisms of the leader of the opposition is because the chief executive did n't invite him on one or two of these trips , because |
| 30 | The litmus test between the great mind and the clever mind is that the former is always conscious of how little he knows , and the latter of how much he knows . |