Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [is] that [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tragedy is that did n't carry the fight through . |
| 2 | The irony is that had the tower been higher and had the teak ‘ scrubbers ’ been less efficient , the smoke would have gone straight up into the air . |
| 3 | The irony is that having frittered our energies away in our endeavour to possess the object of our desire , having done all we can , even lied or deceived in order to obtain the object of our desire , we lose interest in that object because , whether consciously or not , we realize that we have not found lasting satisfaction or peace of mind . |
| 4 | He was brought up by a gaggle of ladies , and the result is that has enormous affection for them . |
| 5 | The result is that lodes , which may once have been uniform , and continuous , have frequently become twisted and prone to peter out suddenly . |
| 6 | The upside is that getting in and out is made simple by the front seats sliding well forwards . |
| 7 | The fear is that stretched resources have led to a reduction in places specifically for the most troubled children . |
| 8 | The likelihood is that had the matter come before the courts in the nineteenth century , they would have held that the mistake had to be reasonable , for it was generally considered at that time that mistake was a defence which would excuse a defendant from liability only where it was based on reasonable grounds . |
| 9 | It is submitted , however , that the right interpretation of the Act is that intended by the committee . |
| 10 | Of course it was challenged in the discussions , but the outcome is that set out in the Anglo-Italian paper . |
| 11 | But the point is that making profits for shareholders must now be seen as a mechanism for promoting the public interest , and not as an end in itself . |
| 12 | The point is that working people are bound to be concerned about issues which can not be tackled effectively without central government involvement , issues such as mass unemployment , inflation , industrial decline , poverty , the social effects of government expenditure cuts . |
| 13 | The point is that looks very nice . |
| 14 | The truth is that learning new skills does take time , and progress may appear to be very slow . |
| 15 | But the truth is that floundering helplessly between two markets — too old-hat to be teeny-bopper and too twee to be taken seriously — Kylie needs a drastic career re-think if she is to avoid becoming a latter-day Lena Zavaroni . |
| 16 | And the truth is that driving on the M25 can be far more frightening than a Grand Prix because so many drivers on the road lack the finesse and understanding to control their cars . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ So , ’ said Gedanken , ‘ everyone thinks their own life is normal , and it 's the other 's that 's gone wrong — going too fast or too slow . |
| 18 | The drawback is that racing drivers work in an area where they are idolised by people whose idea of le dernier cri is a logo-ed nylon pit-stop windcheater the colour of Day-Glo toothpaste . |
| 19 | The quoted position of the pulsar is that obtained from the ATCA observations . |
| 20 | The trouble is that tiptoeing is desperately uncomfortable when you are trying to win a war at the same time . |
| 21 | The trouble is that having er agreed to a er more flexible approach to the size of the police authority , the Government has not taken the opportunity despite many effective speeches from the Conservative benches at second reading to er ret to return to the tripartite system of policing in this country which was er the e the essential element of the nineteen sixty four Act which is now in effect being replaced . |
| 22 | Taylor could risk Platt at Wembley next Wednesday , but the feeling is that doing so would not go down too well with Juventus . |
| 23 | A particularly good time to be out-of-doors in natural lighting in the first two to three days after the flight is that corresponding to the evening and first part of the night on ‘ old time ’ , 9 o'clock to 3 o'clock ; this should help to delay your body clock . |
| 24 | The theory is that experimenting with programs will do two things . |
| 25 | But an important thing to recognise at the outset is that knowing about oneself can never be a matter of ‘ mere information ’ . |
| 26 | The implication is that scanning systems should not be locked into continuous data on limited sectors of the environment … . |
| 27 | Now the message is that keeping the job is a triumph — never mind the extra stripes ! |
| 28 | The list is that proposed by Robert Morant for the Board of Education in 1904 , save that ‘ drawing ’ is now art , ‘ singing ’ now labelled music and what was ‘ manual instruction ’ ( for boys ) and ‘ domestic subjects ’ ( for girls ) now appears as technology . |
| 29 | The necessity of a supply bag to the parachutist is that dangling twenty feet below him on a cord it hits the ground first , a useful precaution when landing in the dark . |
| 30 | The reality is that having a comprehensive and fairly-balanced service agreement is a tremendous advantage to any executive , but it is not in itself enough . |