Example sentences of "is that such " in BNC.

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1 The real problem is that such research reveals modes of thought and practice which are well known and constituted , but which are necessarily concealed .
2 The cold truth is that such captures are all too rare and it is a daily influx of petty offenders and successfully detected trivia that makes up the major part of the detective 's world .
3 The consensus is that such technologies will require international standardisation , long-term planning and organisational coordination .
4 For present purposes the point is that such passages , which because of the name ‘ Anchises ’ may seem Virgilian , are nothing of the kind .
5 The key to ethnomethodological and phenomenological interpretations of ‘ doing ’ routine ( qua ordinary ) police work , is that such interpretative processes and practices are employed in a routine ( qua taken-for-granted ) manner .
6 One is that such policies produce an extension of economic freedom and , thereby , political freedom .
7 The good news for Labour from a comparative survey is that such features as wider home ownership , affluence , and the embourgeoisement of the working class are not necessarily electorally adverse .
8 The truth is that such huge figures have a hypnotizing effect on the victims and arouse a defensive incredulity among those supposed to provide the money .
9 The trouble is that such verities are no longer enough .
10 The received wisdom is that such people are more likely to be Labour supporters , but their ‘ disappearance ’ also makes it harder to lend them money .
11 In the same way , we should declare that we believe in the existence of God even when all the evidence is that such belief is absurd .
12 One obvious problem is that such imagery may lead us to undervalue the significance of the impersonal , particularly if we treat it somehow as the valueless first rung on the ladder of being .
13 The major television stations , in looking towards a mass audience , will inevitably focus on more dramatic events and issues in their depiction of the subject , and one 's only hope is that such depictions will be balanced and sensitively written .
14 One rather strange anomaly is that such intercourse is legal between consenting male adults over the age of 21 , but is illegal between heterosexuals and is punishable by a large fine or four years in prison .
15 The rationale is that such behaviour may make life intolerable ; and that , if indeed it does , the offended partner is entitled to say that the marriage has broken down .
16 The difference now , however , is that such arguments are multiplied many times over , both by the much more extensive use of technology and the great number of technological developments which appear so quickly and exist at the same time .
17 But the fact is that such tests are done on single chemicals , never on mixtures .
18 The first possibility is that such an increase in productive capacity is not undertaken .
19 A corollary of this is that such industries are far from simple to understand and hence they demand experts both to run them and to explain them to the general public , e.g. microelectronics , nuclear stations , oil refineries , etc .
20 One reason why companies established in one member state are entitled to do business in another without setting up a permanent place of business in that state is that such a requirement might unreasonably inflate their costs .
21 A fundamental disadvantage with the conception of the British schemes is that such compensation is neither considered nor provided .
22 The main difficulty is that such heavy feeders are easy to overfeed and are capable of quickly fouling the aquarium water .
23 The point is that such an elaborate division of labour was set up despite , as Trist et al. observed , each job not being so ‘ complex that the average faceworker could not , in a reasonably short time , be expected to become qualified in more than one ’ ( 1963 , 47 ) .
24 The first sign that you are making real progress in learning to fly is that such mishaps become rarer and , eventually , uncommon despite the model not having been changed in any way .
25 The likelihood is that such spare syntactic structures appear very infrequently as independent forms in actual use .
26 The crucial point is that such expressions should be warranted by conceptual and communicative purposes recognized as having point in classroom activity .
27 The main concept , which goes against much traditional thinking about language , is that such change is a natural and inevitable process .
28 What is surprising , however , is that such stories are told using the same , or very nearly the same , language .
29 Another reason to be wary of explaining linguistic differences as products of gender roles , and leaving it at that , is that such a proceeding just encourages stereotyping .
30 The fact is that such breakages are very uncommon , and that the quoted figure of 2,000 tank-related accidents a year includes things like ruptures and hernias while trying to lift them …
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