Example sentences of "the [noun] [is] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The response is that he 's very upset and concerned about the women . |
| 2 | Undeniably their faith is genuine , but the weakness is that their faith is developed at the expense of their understanding . |
| 3 | The final condemnation of the change is that no-one consulted formally these top men in the sport before passing the show-stopping law and , furthermore , that the lawmakers left so much still to be ironed out . |
| 4 | Does my hon. Friend accept that the change is that there is now a proposal to cut a road through the wood whereas 40 years ago there was not ? |
| 5 | The advantage of own brands for the retailer is that they can only be purchased from that particular company . |
| 6 | But what persuades me that we have not heard the last of Havel the writer is that he combines a total commitment to social freedom and individual responsibility with an extraordinary ironic detachment . |
| 7 | Mr Heslop said : ‘ The evidence of the majority of the board is that they no longer have any confidence in his ability to discharge his function . |
| 8 | The major limitation of the measure is that it is theoretically open-ended — it is not possible to say that there will be no further citations to a particular thesis in the future . |
| 9 | A salient characteristic of the internal structure of' the elite is that it is rational , in the sense that it is structured so as to achieve in a purposeful and conscious manner the objectives of the elite as a whole . |
| 10 | All three party leaders have their admirers and the feeling on the ranks is that it will be a hung Parliament . |
| 11 | What is clearly the case is that there is no simple , magic theory to explain what advertising does , and how it does it . |
| 12 | Yeah econ what appears to be the case is that it 's economic reasons that are the main drive , the main driving factors from er the migrant . |
| 13 | erm now the strongest reason , I think , for believing that that is not the case is that it does n't come from the fossil record , it comes simply from looking at organisms today . |
| 14 | The advantage is that there is no line , visible to the fish , coming from the bait , either on the surface or going down to the bottom . |
| 15 | The advantage is that your debtor has either to pay you or not pay you ; if the latter , you have saved time in assessing the situation and can immediately get on with whatever action is necessary . |
| 16 | The first thing to note about the preface is that it needs to be read . |
| 17 | What 's so unusual about the Calibra is that it is n't merely a two-plus-two , it 's a full four-seater . |
| 18 | The hypothesis is that we have now reached the end of the particular combination known as Fordism and are embarking on an as yet embryonic and relatively unknown period , but one which has already been given a name — neo-Fordism . |
| 19 | The decision is that its value is due , so long as the testator was aware the beneficiary was a slave . |
| 20 | It appears to me that far the most probable explanation of the decision is that it was a decision as to the true construction of the Act … |
| 21 | I think quite a lot of it , erm , books have n't mentioned this er frustrated erm feeling in the grant is that she 's come out |
| 22 | The other major weakness of the proposals is that they do not properly identify the nature of the problem . |
| 23 | What worries me at the moment about the proposals is that there is discrimination not only against the United Kingdom but against Europe in the way in which the Commission is carrying out the negotiations with the United States . |
| 24 | The chief importance of the cases is that they illustrate general principles . |
| 25 | The difficulty is that we do not have enough evidence to come to a sure conclusion . |
| 26 | The difficulty is that we are quite likely to pick the same herd twice and if that were to happen we would have to sample it twice . |
| 27 | The difficulty is that their abolition would have a direct relationship to an increase in unit costs , which would bear most heavily on many of the people who are most in need . |
| 28 | The difficulty is that its traditional features — communal tenure , a three-field system , and growing land pressure — have often served as all-Russian criteria , but they did not apply to the West . |
| 29 | Erm , the difficulty is that you ca n't really do that in work situations . |
| 30 | The difficulty is that it does not , one does not — not in one 's art , not in one 's life . |