Example sentences of "the [noun] is [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In outline the algorithm is as follows : — |
| 2 | The defence is that the defendant took all reasonable steps and exercised all due diligence to avoid committing the offence , section 39 . |
| 3 | The effect of the defence is that the plaintiff consents to exempt the defendant from a duty of care which would otherwise have been owed . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The response is that since the words relate to the past , later debts are not included . |
| 6 | The response is that in a rapidly growing market ( say 30 per cent growth per annum ) the only way to increase market share is to go for massive expansion of capacity ( say 50 per cent per annum ) . |
| 7 | The response is that he 's very upset and concerned about the women . |
| 8 | In the case of a bridal couple the ideology is that during the initiatory phase of their marriage the groom and his bride are playing out the roles of a god and a goddess ; when they resume their life as ordinary mortals their dangerous divinity must be removed . ) |
| 9 | Undeniably their faith is genuine , but the weakness is that their faith is developed at the expense of their understanding . |
| 10 | The great ‘ secret ’ of the rituals is that the Piaroa are cannibals ; for the meat they eat each day is human in its origin . |
| 11 | Well yeah but the reason I think you can condemn the excesses is because it 's |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The essence of the change is that the intermediating function between social and economic forces is no longer one that a government can renounce or let go by default . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | The suspense is because our winnings depend not just on which card we have played ( which we each know ) , but on the other player 's card too ( which we do n't know until the banker reveals it ) . |
| 16 | The advantage of own brands for the retailer is that they can only be purchased from that particular company . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The problem in the Highlands is that the population has radically decreased and hence schools are no longer as viable as they once were . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In the limiting case where ( i.e. , a 100 per cent tax on bequests ) , the inequality is that due to the variation in the income of the current generation ( and var[Β] ) , moderated by saving ( if ) . |
| 21 | I do n't know how big the uptake is because actually it does n't make a lot of sense you know , it 's not that much cheaper . |
| 22 | Yes , I mean my view is that we put it out for members we see what the uptake is and then we can always look at the list and ring certain other people |
| 23 | The trick is if you go away it does n't look like you have , and erm the same thing happens in a design studio , or if you 're the art director of a publication or of a book publisher , that everybody works together so it looks like it 's not all the same person doing everything . |
| 24 | It would seem to follow from this analysis that the most appropriate content to ascribe to the duty to act in the interests of the shareholders is that the directors should attempt to maximise the present value of the company . |
| 25 | There is no claim to representativeness , and the essence of the technique is that each subject studied , whether it be an individual , a group , an event , or an institution , is treated as a unit on its own . |
| 26 | The basic problem with this aspect of the technique is that the movement occurs very quickly , so you could be excused for being unsure quite what has happened . |
| 27 | The reason why some people take a long time to learn the Technique is because it is much simpler than they think . |
| 28 | The technique is as follows . |
| 29 | The technique is as for treating oesophageal cancers and has been published previously . |
| 30 | 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 . |