Example sentences of "[verb] [is] that [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What the lectures at the Royal Institution seem to indicate is that despite these changes the age of ‘ two cultures ’ was still some way off ; at the elite level , those interested in the advance of science also wanted to hear about other cultural activity . |
| 2 | The point that is being made is that in this situation none of the profit figures are a guide to the future . |
| 3 | One problem that you may meet is that on some boards , the Dabs board is one , both processor and coprocessor sockets are identical . |
| 4 | All I remember is that at one point he walked along with one foot on the kerb and the other in the gutter and was told off for limping . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | What is less widely known is that at this moment two P-38 Lightnings , ( distinctive , long-range US fighters ) appeared , their star insignia clearly visible , and although it may have been coincidence even to the sophisticated in a crowd of some hundreds of thousands it must indeed have appeared that the mandate of heaven had assumed its newest form . |
| 8 | All that would have happened is that for some reason the Earth 's magnetic field would have reversed itself . |
| 9 | Presumably what he means is that at that point they will have lost their representative character and become embodiments of the divine . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | The position on the particular issue to which the hon. Gentleman refers is that for some years now we have pursued the same policy that the money has been , in the formula applied , additional and is reflected in higher public spending plans , and that it is for the Commissioner to honour the pledge that we have had for years past . |
| 12 | For the most part , the evidence from corporate officials who have been sanctioned is that for this type of crime , criminalization and stigmatization are not fearful consequences likely to occur . |
| 13 | The point I want to make is that in most cases they could not . |
| 14 | The most you should say is that on these facts there is evidence of negligence ( or unreasonableness ) , and that a finding to that effect would clearly be right ( or conversely ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 , . |
| 17 | What this suggests is that despite valid criticism of their pretensions as theoretical perspectives , the notion of both a dominant ideology and a false consciousness do have at least some place in a theory of ideology . |
| 18 | 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 . |