Example sentences of "[pron] is [adj] [verb] that [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the team leader at work who is concerned to ensure that members of the group are all pulling in the same direction towards greater productivity or an improved service . |
| 2 | It is salutary to remember that children who are rated as most aggressive by their classmates are those who view ( unsupervised ) the most violent TV programmes . |
| 3 | When looking for solutions of the Ernst equation for stationary axisymmetric space-times , it is appropriate to require that solutions be asymptotically flat . |
| 4 | It is unhistorical to assume that children in the last century responded to death in the same way as children today ; children 's attitudes are largely conditioned by those of adults , and in our day the usual adult attitude is to evade the subject of death , to treat it as ‘ morbid ’ and , so far as possible , to exclude it from the home . |
| 5 | However , it is essential to monitor that services are working . |
| 6 | It is essential to realise that investors hold bonds ( securities ) issued by the ultimate borrower , unlike the euro-currency bank market where investors hold short-term claims on banks ( intermediaries ) . |
| 7 | Dr Margaret O'Brien , a chartered psychologist at East London Polytechnic and author of The New Man , told the conference : ‘ Though there have been many changes in family life over the century , it is surprising to discover that children seem to have such a traditional view . ’ |
| 8 | Defendants are permitted to prove their innocence to the extent of whatever accounts and receipts they may have , but case law has shown that it is impossible to prove that savings from wages are not the fruit of crime , being just money in the bank . |
| 9 | Consequently it is reasonable to suppose that decision-makers form judgements about the likelihood of controls being imposed and take action to mitigate their effects . |
| 10 | It is reasonable to suppose that children enter a communication task as active interactants ready to ask questions and generally negotiate meaning because that is what they do all the time in the world outside the laboratory . |
| 11 | It is reasonable to acknowledge that women and men within one community do share a historical and cultural experience to a much greater extent than the miner and the public schoolboy . |
| 12 | It clearly works as a formula , and it is reasonable to assume that alternatives have been tested and found inferior . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , it is useful to remember that children walk more than any other age group and women walk more than men . |
| 14 | Moreover , as the intraluminal contents may influence motility , it is safer to infer that differences between individuals in motility patterns are causally related to their altered bowel habits if these motility patterns are seen when the intraluminal contants are similar — that is , after bowel evacuation , as opposed to varying from liquid to hard masses . |
| 15 | In the case of mapping theses , it is logical to assume that researchers would be interested in adjacent areas , or in areas within the same major structural or stratigraphic units . |
| 16 | If we regard the proportions as ’ half and half ’ , it is logical to assume that households containing two or more people should pay 100 per cent. , that the occupants of a house that is empty or not their principal residence should pay 50 per cent. , and that a single occupant — being , as it were , in the middle — should pay 75 per cent . |
| 17 | This pattern of epidemics may explain the broad movement of wages in the mid fifteenth century , for the 1440s , 1450s and 1470s , when it is logical to assume that deaths were more likely to have exceeded births , were precisely those decades when wages were highest . |
| 18 | Since all the schools follow the same teaching plan and since the content of the programme followed by children in the early years is less demanding academically than that followed by adolescents , it is easy to argue that teachers in the lower grades require less training . |
| 19 | And , remember , that Times 12 Roman and Times 12 Italic are two different fonts so it is easy to see that users quickly began to experience problems . |
| 20 | It is easy to see that users and separate pieces of literature may hold different perspectives on one subject . |
| 21 | Today , it is easy to imagine that Romanians would indeed welcome Soviet forces with open arms as liberators . |
| 22 | It is easy to assume that teams are ‘ a good thing ’ and therefore , in some way , essential , but experience indicates that they are only essential in certain sorts of situations . |
| 23 | The huge , gently tilting summit plateau is vast and it is easy to believe that locals held horse races here last century . |
| 24 | It is not that prospects for earnings are 10 p.c. better that they were in the middle of last week , but it is possible to argue that prospects are that much better than they would have been under a Labour government and that the market was discounting such a result . |
| 25 | Just as schools have been accused of creating pupils with learning difficulties , it is possible to argue that schools create disruptive pupils . |
| 26 | It notes that it is possible to argue that societies ' liquid assets are mostly fixed , mostly current or neither fixed nor current ! |
| 27 | However , it is possible to concede that defendants should be judged on the facts as they believe them to be , and yet to argue in favour of an exception in rape cases . |
| 28 | It is well to recognise that decisions about information-holding or access are , to an extent , always decisions about power . |
| 29 | In the spring Petrakis 's survey of sexuality for It revealed , amidst a cluster of curious statements , that ‘ it is true to say that homosexuals are neurotic ’ . |
| 30 | b ) Social mobility : in western societies it is common to find that individuals aspire to " move up " to the next social class above . |