Example sentences of "in the [noun sg] is that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole atmosphere of thinking in the West is that Britain and America have defined what being young is all about . |
| 2 | A strange fact about those of us who live in the West is that we always seem to want more than we have . |
| 3 | Our problem in the West is that we have forgotten where food comes from , and therefore we ignore its real value . |
| 4 | Amdahl has laid off another 150 manufacturing employees in Sunnyvale , and word in the Valley is that more may go in May . |
| 5 | Amdahl Corp last week laid off another 150 manufacturing employees in Sunnyvale , and word in the Valley is that more may go in May . |
| 6 | Implied in the diagram is that one LECTURER can give more than one COURSE ( Fred , for example , gives business studies and computer science ) and one COURSE is given by more than one LECTURER ( maths by Tom and Dave , for example ) — a many-to-many relationship . |
| 7 | The crucial element in the system is that it should be modular . |
| 8 | A further weakness in the system is that the government , when setting limits for expenditure which can be as far as two years in the future , has to make realistic assumptions about projected inflation . |
| 9 | The word in the mess is that a review of the highly controversial changes is imminent and the 12-year-old malts are standing by for opening in early May . |
| 10 | The reason for such lack of jurisdiction to review in the court is that an eleemosynary corporation is governed by a system of private law which is not of ‘ the common known laws of the kingdom ’ but the particular laws and constitutions assigned by the founder . |
| 11 | ‘ The reason for the sharp rise in the price is that Warburgs wants to buy 5,000 shares and nobody wants to sell . ’ |
| 12 | The reply by the minister was a direct echo of Mary Carpenter : ‘ The principle behind this provision in the bill is that parents should be required — if their means so permit — to pay for their child 's board and lodging , so that they are in no way better off as a result of the child 's being in care . ’ |
| 13 | What it says in the Bill is that the Government will use its best endeavours and that 's not a guarantee . |
| 14 | ‘ The essential affirmation in the poem is that a young woman should preserve her virginity , again nothing remarkable . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | One of the principles in the Act is that the severity of the sentence should reflect the seriousness of the offence . |
| 18 | The most tragic and outrageous aspect of the tuna/dolphin story in the ETP is that the practice of encircling dolphins to catch tuna is entirely unnecessary . |
| 19 | What can be said in the meantime is that , in the current climate at Celtic Park , this internal strife is a hindrance the manager could certainly have done without . |
| 20 | ‘ But I think that the general feeling in the village is that the station is going to close anyway and that the decision has virtually been made . |
| 21 | The generally-accepted explanation for welfare payment levels in the South is that they are , and have been , low because of : the relative poverty of the southern States , which would call for a high fiscal effort if payments equivalent to those made further north were to be offered to the larger number of poor there ; the electoral safety of the Democratic party with regard to the southern State legislatures and governorships , for over a century — sustained by discriminatory practices which prevented many blacks becoming registered voters despite their legal achievement of civil rights ; and the widespread belief among southern whites in the racial inferiority of blacks — who are the main recipients of welfare benefits coupled with the perceived work-disincentive effects of substantial payments and the encouragement to have even larger , and thus more dependent , families than they are believed to provide . |
| 22 | Perhaps the reason that tail shapes have wrongly received so much attention in the past is that they are the most obviously visible difference between boards . |
| 23 | A criticism that has been levelled at clinicians in the past is that they are concerned only with the patients they actually see and not with the wider population . |
| 24 | ‘ The great thing about pop music in the past is that it used to be about pushing everything . |
| 25 | Well there are a number of spaces that are in positions which could be used by disabled , in other words , they are not sort of , sandwich tight against other spaces and what 's happened in the past is that erm when a need has arisen an and when perhaps there 's been er generally a bungalow that has been er , occupied by somebody who 's disabled then the housing department have erm modified that space I mean , wha what we 've actually done is we 've er , taken a certain amount of block paving out but put back some block paved logo , sort of , standard white er symbol that erm that identifies disabled space and and , and that space is actually earmarked for that person , and it could happen in a variety of different locations erm it 's just that there 's probably not so much point in doing it until you know that there is er a specific need . |
| 26 | One of the objections to registering that users have voiced in the past is that it can lead to mountains of junk mail landing on the doormat every week . |
| 27 | What the council has made clear in the past is that the company ought to bear the brunt of the responsibility to clear up this site . |
| 28 | She believes the general lack of women participants in the sport is that it simply does not appeal . |
| 29 | Antiques they may be , but one good reason for choosing a record deck so late in the day is that , unlike CD , the technology is tried and tested and not susceptible to the great leap forward , leaving you with an obsolete model . |
| 30 | In conclusion , Robert and Randolph ( 1983 ) from a major study of the 1961 , 1971 and 1981 Census data conclude that the counterurbanization explanation may not be as appropriate as first thought , and that the crucial flaw in the model is that ( 1983 , 97 ) it is ‘ a model of pattern rather than process ’ . |