Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] is [verb] that a " in BNC.

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1 The story is told that a certain academic was recruited as an expert ( supposedly ) on cryptograms , when in actuality he was an authority on crypto gams .
2 The key is to recognize that a market is a natural focal point of any town or city and therefore a potential asset .
3 Here it suffices to say that the aim is to ensure that a company is required to do so when it is thought that the matter is one that the public needs to know .
4 However , to prevent friction between country residents and visitors , the Commission is recommending that a new Country Code should be established , and the tourism industry should help to preserve the attractive elements of the country .
5 The difficulty for the prosecution is proving that a child so young intended to commit a crime .
6 The mistake is to say that a ‘ directing mind ’ accused is to be treated as having validly consented on behalf of the company to his own dishonest taking of the company 's property .
7 The principle is fixed that a scholar aspiring to high office must first teach at a graded series of medreses , one after the other , and that only when he reaches a certain grade does he become eligible for the great offices of the learned hierarchy , the mevleviyets , which are in their turn graded .
8 If a child is told that a particular outing is to take place tomorrow , this becomes a certain fact in his or her mind .
9 A businessman is claiming that a blunder by British Telecom has cost his firm seventy thousand pounds in lost orders .
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