Example sentences of "[verb] [is] that in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point that is being made is that in this situation none of the profit figures are a guide to the future . |
| 2 | No perceptible direct line connects Edward 's law with Wyclif 's radicalism , but what can be asserted is that in this matter — as in so many others — Wyclif was not breaking new ground but appealing to ideas already long current in certain circles . |
| 3 | A point to emphasize is that in each case the material was obtained from natural sources distant and sometimes remote from the places where it was put to social use . |
| 4 | In the context , this ‘ very lax attitude ’ seems to be measured against circumstances ( such as late Old English or the present day ) in which there is a uniform standard of spelling : thus , what this really means is that in Early ME there was no uniform standard , and indeed Scragg adds that these scribes had ‘ no conception of a spelling standard ’ . |
| 5 | The point I want to make is that in most cases they could not . |
| 6 | The worst one can fairly say is that in some scenes — the Andúril ones , the Field of Cormallen , the eagle 's song — Tolkien under-estimated his audience 's resistance and reached too hastily for the sublime or the impressive . |
| 7 | The best one can say is that in those chapters , as in The Lord of the Rings more generally , a work essentially of ‘ romance ’ manages to rise at times towards ‘ myth ’ , and also to sink towards ‘ high ’ or even ‘ low mimesis , . |
| 8 | One way in which the pattern of results might be described is that in each case the exemplars which accorded most closely to the subjects ’ expectations were recognized best . |