Example sentences of "the [noun] [be] [conj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tell that story to one of America 's many grumblers about Japanese investment and the response is that Mr Dukakis would never have made that mistake at a Japanese firm : he would have been able to tell the difference . |
| 2 | The likely terms of the split are that Solvay will take over sole ownership of Interox , the price being Laporte 's takeover of the organics and persulphates and cancellation or sale of most of Solvay 's shareholding in Laporte . |
| 3 | So radical has the change been that Freddie and Caroline are sometimes at Prue 's dinner-parties now . |
| 4 | So the upshot of the trial was that Mr. Steed was restored to the position of registered proprietor but had failed to upset the building society 's charge . |
| 5 | The signs are that West Germany will still insist that the EMU negotiations start after its election on December 2nd , not least because the fusion of the Ostmark and the D-mark will inevitably distract minds in the Bundesbank and the finance ministry that could otherwise be thinking about EMU . |
| 6 | At the time of writing the signs are that West Germany could well adopt a national energy plan involving considerable cutbacks in the loss-making and heavily subsidised coal industry . |
| 7 | The signs are that Clough is ready to snap his link with his father . |
| 8 | And with good reason : the signs are that Saatchi is finding it difficult to sell the management consultancy division alone . |
| 9 | The signs are that God is blessing these initiatives with his presence and his Spirit and it is unlikely that the growth of the Vineyard in Britain will stop there . |
| 10 | All the signs are that President Mitterrand 's approach is supported by Chancellor Kohl 's foreign minister , Mr Hans-Dietrich Genscher . |
| 11 | and with so much steam coming from the forwards all the signs were that Gloucester were going to take sale to the cleaners … |
| 12 | A bizarre aspect of the case is that Mr Devaty 's ‘ crimes ’ include the apparently punishable offence of sending the authorities papers about their human rights abuses . |
| 13 | What does seem to be the case is that Rolle had an experience of what he understood as divine reality which transfigured his ordinary perception and that he could only express this in terms of the way men respond to the arts of music and literature . |
| 14 | The advantage is that EISA network , disk , video and sound cards can run a lot faster and handle higher throughputs , though at a cost . |
| 15 | The reason given for the ban was that Professor Saburo Ienaga , a noted historian , had refused to strike out a reference in his book to bacteriological and other experiments carried out on Chinese prisoners of war by the now-defunct Imperial Army . |
| 16 | The oddity about the scrum-halves is that Strachan can not get a game for Auckland ahead of Jason Hewett , of last season 's World Cup squad , and Preston does not rank ahead of Graeme Bachop , the no.1 All Black halfback since 1990 , for Canterbury . |
| 17 | Brian Mulligan , the managing director of Toplog Ltd in the UK , said the reason for the parting was that Toplog wanted to capitalise on its Unix software while Metrologie wanted to concentrate on hardware . |
| 18 | One sign of the times was that Lord Young of Dartington , a founder member of the SDP in 1981 , moved back to rejoin the Labour Party . |
| 19 | The theory is that development for a Third World country is not possible within the orbit of capitalist imperialism , a dependency theory of the type discussed in Chapter 2 ; while the experience is that FDI has often led to some ‘ development ’ , apparently for the benefit of all . |
| 20 | ‘ The difficulty is that Perry does everything that bit better than Tristram . |
| 21 | The difficulty is that Maastricht could not have been rolled away to leave the open-market EC that was being built beforehand . |
| 22 | Sparta wanted help in the Peloponnesian War , and sent more than one delegation ( Thuc. iv.50 ) ; the difficulty was that Persia insisted that Sparta recognize that Asia Minor was Persian property , and this Sparta , for domestic reasons to do with the Peloponnesian League , could not do ( pp. 102 , 127 ) . |
| 23 | And in the aftermath of the February elections the worry is that Violeta Chamorro 's new UNO government might stray off the positive mental-health track that has made the contrast between these two countries so striking . |
| 24 | Tactically , the worry is that England 's 4-4-2 system remains too rigid . |
| 25 | The worry is that Improv may cannibalise sales of Lotus 's existing program . |
| 26 | That may be true in general , but the other side of the coin is that Britain expects change in return , and puts on tremendous pressure to get that change , ’ one official said . |
| 27 | The other side of the coin is that Thomson , in particular , has had problems in selling to private firms ; its sales force has , so it seems , learnt the right way of buttering up only government clients . |
| 28 | The verdict was that Horsley had about as clean a bill of health as it was possible for a real , live capitalist to have . |
| 29 | The hope is that Hungary , like Italy , will wake up one day , count its black economy and find it is rich . |
| 30 | Both times the hope was that Nottinghamshire , Derbyshire and Leicestershire coal could be taken to London cheaply and quickly . |