Example sentences of "the [noun sg] is that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defence is that the defendant took all reasonable steps and exercised all due diligence to avoid committing the offence , section 39 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The interesting feature of the case is that the corporation exacted the payments under a mistake of fact — they did not know that the limestone was to be burnt into lime , while the plaintiff made the payments under a mistake of law — he did not know of the exemption . |
| 6 | A feature of the case is that the trial judge held the bank liable to the wife in damages for its failure to explain the effect of the charge to her . |
| 7 | The implication at the beginning of the text is that the lord feels his worldly duty and his love for God to be pulling against each other and unbalancing him : The state to which Hilton hopes to point him is one of discretion in which self-knowledge and the love of God are the means of integrating what seem like opposites in equilibrium . |
| 8 | The advantage is that the cover can be pushed to one side with a net handle or broomstick , then slid back again , while the pondkeeper remains dry and in full possession of his sanity . |
| 9 | The advantage is that the kite itself is free of the high frequency vibrations which occur naturally in all kite flying lines ; but a fast shutter speed takes care of this problem in most instances . |
| 10 | Bagi concedes opting for Transvik software was a risk , given the company 's small size , but argues the advantage is that the firm is dependent on the success of the contract and is more willing to share its expertise than Logica might have been . |
| 11 | For civil servants , the advantage is that the doctrine leaves them utterly free of any repercussions arising from their advice and thus greatly adds to their freedom and power . |
| 12 | The advantage of using the computer is that the answers are confirmed immediately rather than after the whole passage has been completed . |
| 13 | ( Remember the hypothesis is that the treatment is successful because it adjusts the clock . ) |
| 14 | The decision is that the heir should , especially in the event that ( i ) the testator knew the land was pledged or ( ii ) he would have left something else had he known . |
| 15 | Even if the decision is that the partnership structure continues to be more appropriate , the management processes and incentives exercised by large companies are well worth examining . |
| 16 | The political consequence of the decision is that the EC Industry Commissioner and the EC Transport Commissioner have suggested to the Commission President that , in future , the Competition Directorate should obtain the approval of the relevant industrial policy department of the Commission before submitting a merger to the full five months ' scrutiny allowed under the Regulation . |
| 17 | Treitel ( 8th ed. ) , p. 87 says of Ward v. Byham : ‘ One basis of the decision is that the mother had provided consideration by showing that she had made the child happy , etc. : in this way she can be said to have conferred a factual benefit on the father , even though she may not have suffered any detriment . ’ |
| 18 | A recurrent theme in the literature is that the position of business in relation to government differs from that of other interest groups by virtue of the possession by companies of ‘ real ’ power — social decision-making power as it has been termed above . |
| 19 | The near feature of the Framework is that the decision on whether to devolve responsibility ( or not ) will be based on the outcome of a Quality Audit . |
| 20 | The important point for the present is that the above clauses leave no room for doubt that a breach of contract will justify the victim in terminating the contract . |
| 21 | The crux is that the amount of damages obtainable will , prima facie , be the total of the salary and fringe benefits to which you would have been entitled between the time of the job actually ending and the time at which the contract could lawfully have been ended by due notice . |
| 22 | The difficulty is that the wife has died intestate , and her intestate heir is precisely the person she was asked to ward off from her property . |
| 23 | The difficulty is that the grammar of the disposition suggests that it should be the curator , but the reference to ‘ his , nurses can surely be meant to refer only to the foster-child ; and the last sentence of the text confirms that it is the foster-child who is intended . |
| 24 | The difficulty is that the Earl of Orford , who did not die until 5 December 1791 , was named George , while his uncle who succeeded him as fourth Earl was named Horatio , although he disliked this name , and called himself Horace Walpole instead . |
| 25 | The difficulty is that the letters written at the time by Wordsworth , while full of references to ‘ God ’ and ‘ fortitude ’ , can hardly be described as pious . |
| 26 | Part of the difficulty is that the same environmental factors which predispose children to middle-ear infections may contribute independently to developmental delay . |
| 27 | The difficulty is that the bacteria is notorious for changing itself and every time scientists think they are on the verge of a development the bacteria becomes resistant . |
| 28 | The difficulty is that the applicability of such general principles is subject to divergent interpretations ; in the absence of any authoritative international bodies entitled to give an impartial view , Cassese argues that ‘ the implementation of the general principles on weapons turns on the military strength of belligerents : strong States can dodge the bans without fear . |
| 29 | The difficulty is that the sites which have been extensively excavated , and so produced the largest quantities of pottery , such as Corbridge and Newstead , are multi-period , and the stratification of the excavations early in the century , consequently suspect . |
| 30 | The difficulty is that the assumptions on which it is based are to say the least shaky : the assumptions , namely , that only one vote suffices although more than one candidate is to be elected ; that preferential voting is reliable , even when used in ignorance of all the relevant information and inhibited by the arbitrary exclusion of candidates who might otherwise be successful ; that it is reasonable to grant to some votes the privilege of being transferred , and to lower-preference votes the possibility of exercising greater influence than is warranted by their very definition ; that it is reasonable also to give to all transferred votes the same weighting as to original votes ; and that election by quota is sensible even if the quotas are manifestly make-believe . |