Example sentences of "[adv] the [noun sg] is [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presumably the justification is that D has already crossed a high moral/social threshold in choosing to commit such a serious offence , and should therefore be held liable for whatever consequences ensue , however unforeseeable they may be . |
| 2 | Right the rationale is that the degree of parental investment and its effect on the offspring vary with the offspring 's age , and as says , one of the fundamental erm , principles of this is that the , by and large the younger the offspring the more valuable any unit of parental is to it , and the more efficacious it is , and the most obvious example of that would be food . |
| 3 | Effectively the sequence is that the person in default is told what is wrong and is required to put it right . |
| 4 | Rather the criticism is that the basic and structural problems are not being tackled with the vigour that is required . |
| 5 | Basically the idea is that in sectors where it is not feasible to have competition in the market place ( with all the associated incentives to efficient performance ) then it may nevertheless be possible to have competition for the market . |
| 6 | The second major issue which I believe had been used against the new settlement as a an appropriate Greater York area , is that it 's inconsistent with erm current recent central government planning advice , and basically the argument is that the proposals for the new settlement are contrary to er planning policy guidance notes three and twelve , and draft er P P G thirteen , if I can deal with P P G thirteen first of all , and the observation of Mr Curtis that the new settlement is a last resort , erm now I could find no reference to that at all erm in P P G three , or even a sentiment that at planning policy er that a new settlement should be regarded erm as a policy of last resort . |
| 7 | Perhaps the principle is that if the owner loves the Biro , the Biro will return the affection and become a loyal companion . |
| 8 | Perhaps the reason is that they are dedicated to something outside themselves , namely to God , and are not interested merely in the selfish development of their right hemispheres . |
| 9 | Perhaps the reason is that she has been persuaded that teacher approval , and whatever other more tangible extrinsic rewards may follow , are in short supply and to gain what she needs she must not simply ( or even necessarily ) improve but also get ( or merely stay ) ahead of others . |
| 10 | Perhaps the answer is that Puddephat killed himself at the flat ? ’ |
| 11 | Well , perhaps the trouble is that we wrote down Maxwell 's equations in a stationary frame of reference . |
| 12 | perhaps the truth is that in the field of economic policy , Keynes 's preference for a managed economy aligned him with the new Liberals : hence the handsome tribute he paid to J. A. Hobson , in spite of the fact that he regarded him as mistaken . |
| 13 | I mean obviously the reality is that obviously if you buy a mechanical breakdown insurance from a dealer and the dealer goes into liquidation then obviously that does n't affect the policy because the policy will still be handled by a company such as ours , and there are a number of companies obviously . |
| 14 | Obviously the point is that y y it 's still within the , the er bounds of the er couple itself . |
| 15 | So the word is that the best bet is on the appointment of another academic ( Sir Roger himself , though just due to become president of the Publishers Association , is expected to return to his chair of physics when he retires from the press in the summer ) . |
| 16 | So the procedure is that when I return his folded newspaper , I place the packages in his palm . |
| 17 | So the logic is that they will prevent him . |
| 18 | So the idea is that you have to pretend not to have periods , deny their existence . |
| 19 | So the idea is that you obviously need to get a job pretty quick |
| 20 | So the idea is that the more difficult the the situation the mother finds herself is in the more likely she is to spontaneously abort and the more likely any retained er foetus is to be normal an and , and to , and not to have any defects . |
| 21 | Erm , the idea is that letters are uniquely sep specified by different combinations of features , but certain letters would share more features than others So the idea is that you might consider that the letter X is made up of two features line going that way , whoops , yeah , and a line going that way , which when they 're viewed together make the letter X. The letter Y is made up of a line going that way and a line going that way . |
| 22 | So the implication is that in such instances animals also would be worse off . |
| 23 | So the result is that , where people did take notice of Freud , and here Talker Parsons is the prime example , they interpreted Freud as if he too were a cultural determinist . |
| 24 | So the result is that in mammals there are , I think I 'm right in saying , no sex reversed species whatsoever , in fact I 'm sure there are n't . |
| 25 | So the thing is that the erm , at Rolling Stone we actually called the paste-up people . |
| 26 | So the lesson is that if you use masking tape , or any other pressure sensitive tape , to hinge your works of art on paper , you should expect them to be showing yellow stains form the adhesive in four to five years time . |
| 27 | So the bet is that the prime minister now has two years — with luck , much calmer than the past one — to start putting a programme into law , followed by another year to sell it to the people in the run-up to re-election . |
| 28 | So the reality is that , in the last seven months , the Taylors have had to make a radical reassessment of family expectations . |
| 29 | Thus the implication is that if the State Department issues a mild statement in response to an issue which is provoking inflammatory articles and speeches in the press and Congress ( for example , over the Agrarian Reform Law ) , then it is simply that the government is hiding its ’ real' intentions in order to deceive . |
| 30 | Thus the conclusion is that , owing to the repulsive forces between the electrons , a cylindrical electron beam is unstable . |