Example sentences of "[conj] the [noun sg] is that " in BNC.

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1 I mean if he 's , I mean he , he says or the implication is that it will stop when they get everything they achieve or perhaps they 've already got what they set out
2 S so it 's , it 's , it 's either that the cadres are being rightist , they are protecting the landlords so they are keeping too much , or the problem is that the cadres , what we looked at earlier , the cadres are getting in themselves and they are taking too much for themselves .
3 Where the allegation is that the person to whom the remarks were addressed was likely to form a given belief , it means ‘ likely to form ’ and not ‘ did form . ’
4 The tie is sponsored by Carmen Furniture , appropriate to the musical chairs likely for the Scots ' second outing and key to qualification for the knock-out stages — against Canada — where the intention is that Tony Stanger and Carl Hogg will play .
5 Similarly where the charge is that he intends to provoke another to use such violence .
6 The ‘ special relationship ’ has long been a myth , one which the UK has more of an interest in perpetuating than the US , where the reality is that Britain is regarded as a second-rank nation .
7 I hope that that means that the trend is that we shall plateau soon and thereafter we shall see unemployment reducing .
8 Well , Fred , I do n't mind telling you that the secret is that I 'm one of a noble family . ’
9 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 ?
10 It will explain that the proposal is that any party which gains a minimum proportion of the votes to a constituent assembly will be entitled to representation in a government of national unity that will rule until 1999-2000 .
11 Remember that the principle is that the audience is given a stake in what is performed ; they are an interactive part of the drama .
12 Durham 's arrival in 1992 has come so smoothly that the wonder is that the gap following Glamorgan 's 1921 elevation was so long .
13 For example : ‘ We are satisfied from the evidence that the consensus is that the sign of anal dilatation is abnormal and suspicious and requires further investigation .
14 I think these days , with Magistrates properly trained , that the position is that the Clerk is not seen to dominate the proceedings .
15 As I said before on Thursday , that the idea is that the people outside there , the public , are the ones that are important .
16 of event but erm I do n't think that that makes it er negative , I think that the idea is that it 's it 's cumulative and er that 's that 's the way , well as you say , .
17 Has it occurred to the Minister that the problem is that there are plenty of young people camped out in the open air , but that they do not have any work ?
18 ‘ So I can tell you that the word is that they have not found what they were looking for .
19 And I can honestly say , along with most people I 'm reluctantly coming round to the concept that the probability is that the county will cease to exist shortly , and there 'll be hopefully not more than two other authorities doing the job we 're currently doing .
20 Some argue that the reason is that MI5 has been penetrated by Russian intelligence so deeply that even its own Director General , Sir Roger Hollis , was a Russian mole and therefore every investigation has been frustrated .
21 Press and television in Africa are generally allowed more freedom of expression than is radio , and one suspects that the reason is that already mentioned : the elitist fear of uneducated people listening to radio and being ‘ misinformed ’ or ‘ confused ’ .
22 Some would say that the result is that a Classification Society does act as an expert in resolving technical disputes .
23 Now to a lot , a lot of people this is unacceptable and terrible and er it 's , er he 's arguing here that the fact is that the , the , the peasant masses have risen to fulfil their historic mission and that the forces of rural democracy have to rise to overthrow the forces of rural feudalism .
24 A theologian , Eric Mascall , in his book Christian Theology and Natural Science , wrote about such problems that the point is that , although a physicist knows the objective world only through the mediation of sensation , the essential character of the objective world is not sensibility but intelligibility .
25 Moreover , it would appear that the difference is that the latter sentence expresses my belief that I have the belief that it is raining , and says that I have the belief that it is raining , and does not express the belief that it is raining or say that it is raining .
26 Well I think , I think that the difference is that if you 're , they were obviously establishing themselves from seed and they picked the right spot and they got themselves anchored .
27 It should be obvious , from the discussion of dual-route reading models in Chapter 6 , that the answer is that all words ( exception or regular ) would be read well , but non-words would not .
28 The experience of the Birmingham County Court when it established a separate office to deal with litigants in person would suggest that the answer is that it is not .
29 Wh what you 're also saying is , is right though , that within that the danger is that inequalities get too great and you would also need a set of policies which would stop that inequality .
30 We have to accept that the reality is that we are always already on the slope , holding a position .
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