Example sentences of "[adj] [be] that [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is clear is that such private desires were not sealed off from the world of public representations . |
| 2 | What is clear is that this golden age did not exist in the mid 1950s , in the first part of this century nor in the first half of the last century . |
| 3 | One reason for this is that many grammatical elements are themselves bearers of meaning — this is true , for instance , of the past tense affix — ed , and the plural affix — s . |
| 4 | A further suggestion that flows from this is that such evolutionary considerations lend support to a competing grammatical paradigm — that of Montague grammar . |
| 5 | But the most surprising fact about this is that all these events took place during the deposition of a single graptolite zone . |
| 6 | What is particularly interesting is that this nuclear PLC- β is activated when Swiss 3T3 cells are stimulated by IGF-1 , whereas bombesin has no effect even though it is a potent activator of phosphoinositide hydrolysis at the plasma membrane . |
| 7 | That is one point of view ; another is that these future Nobel laureates may in fact earn their prizes by bringing more supercomputing to science , and thus moving more of science into cyberspace . |
| 8 | One of the reasons for believing that cross-species extrapolation is possible at all is that all living animals have evolved from common ancestors that existed at some time in the distant past . |
| 9 | What makes it more meaningful is that any such authority , whether given in the articles or by a resolution , must state the maximum number of securities which can be issued under it and the date at which the authority will expire . |
| 10 | What is perhaps more disturbing is that many existing IT specialists do not appear to be aware of some fundamental principles involved in designing reliable , " user-friendly " and " environment-friendly " information systems . |
| 11 | The important is that this experimental method is only one way of first impressions using the method shown in Fig. 1 . |
| 12 | But it was in the air for a second reason also : for one striking feature of the years 1929–31 was that all three parties were deeply divided . |
| 13 | The first is that many important aspects of language processing occur in units that are larger than the single sentence . |
| 14 | The first is that some 600,000 debt cases ( that is , all types of unpaid debt , including rent and fuel bills as well as unmet credit obligations ) have had to be settled in court each year : that 's one for every 30 families or so . |
| 15 | Hollywood had captured the British film audience and what was worse was that those English films that were made were all too prepared to ape Hollywood conventions . |
| 16 | The first was that this contractual conception of the company conflicted with the theory prevailing in the case-law that treated the company as an artificial entity , separate and distinct from its shareholders . |
| 17 | As a physical description , we expect the passage to contain a large number of physical , concrete nouns ( stakes , bamboo , fences , fishermen , ruins , etc ) but what is more striking is that these concrete nouns are matched by nouns which are more abstract in one way or another . |
| 18 | But what 's so striking is that this great diversity of belief is accompanied by strong convictions of rationality and rectitude . |