Example sentences of "[pron] is [adj] [noun sg] [verb] that " in BNC.

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1 There is limited evidence to suggest that working class women were also convinced of the danger their contributions to the family economy posed to their husbands ' work incentives .
2 There is substantial evidence showing that the chances of surviving to old age are lower among the manual than non-manual groups and that this also applies , though to a lesser extent , to the number of years people live beyond retirement .
3 Third , there is substantial evidence showing that economic growth and education in advanced industrial societies are correlated , though there is equally substantial disagreement about the direction of the causality .
4 Categorising types of writing is not easy , but there is good evidence to suggest that the type of writing attempted has a strong influence on the outcome .
5 There is good evidence to show that the Mental Health Act is used disproportionately against black people and other disadvantaged groups , and this element of social control that is invested in psychiatric practice is likely to be further strengthened and made more pervasive by the introduction of community supervision orders .
6 There is good reason to argue that it is .
7 Of course , this is possible but there is good reason to suppose that it is not the case .
8 The local name of the place , the Gold Pit , implies that a good deal of gold was robbed from the site before the French archaeologists started excavating it in the 1920s , and there is good reason to suppose that the so-called Aegina Treasure , which is now in the British Museum , originated here .
9 There is good reason to suppose that St.John 's is the latest of the Gospels to be written .
10 If there is no difference , there is good reason to suppose that the Spirit has not been received into the man 's life .
11 Secondly , and the reasons for this are unclear , there is good reason to suggest that West Indian workers are more likely to use formal or official job-search channels than are whites or Asians , who use informal channels to a comparatively greater extent .
12 Unless steps have been taken to ensure that the people of the organisation are fully informed of the changes that are proposed , that they support the changes , and see themselves as gaining from them , then there is no reason to assume that they will cooperate with the changes : indeed , there is good reason to assume that they will try to ensure that the changes do not work .
13 Doubtless many social and economic forces have contributed to this trend ; but there is good reason to believe that our attitudes to child-rearing play a not insignificant part .
14 Suffice it to say that there is good reason to believe that the original censuses in Numbers 1 and 26 set out the numbers of each tribe , somewhat in this form :
15 However , just as basic systems theory suggests that every system begins and ends with the individual and , therefore , that all systems are circular , there is good reason to believe that a common policy for education can only be arrived at by looking at the array of experiences of different individuals instead of others ' perceptions of these experiences .
16 Furthermore , the rules and guidelines should identify situations where there is good reason to believe that competition might be absent , before any investigation of supposed ‘ anticompetitive practices ’ such as price discrimination or vertical restraints .
17 But in this respect too there is good reason to believe that things have recently begun to go seriously wrong :
18 There is good reason to believe that these attacks were well justified , because after the defeat of the rising and Cade 's death , a commission , sent into Kent to investigate extortions there , held inquests in various parts of the shire between late August and late October 1450 .
19 A major defence by many of those prosecuted was that the enclosures had taken place before the practice had been made an offence , and although the practice continued after this date there is good reason to believe that this was often the case .
20 So there is good reason to believe that a contract for writing a computer program will fall within that part of the Act dealing with the supply of services , sections 12 to 16 .
21 The Ramsey chronicle of c.1170 , for example , claims to have used charters , some written in English , while there is good reason to think that the historian of Ely Abbey did have access to records compiled in Anglo-Saxon in the late tenth century and translated into Latin in the early twelfth .
22 Practically unique letter specification was obtained from only the downstrokes of the writing , and there is other evidence to suggest that most of the information in cursive writing is in the downward portions of the writing .
23 In August , Lyell had refused to do so , but Mr Greene says that there is new evidence to suggest that the Commission did not exercise its duties correctly ; The Commissioners seem not to have taken expert advice , as they were bound to do , on the importance of the paintings to the collection , but relied merely on the statements supplied by the College itself .
24 There is strong evidence to believe that Bamford was representative in another respect : their first child was present at the wedding .
25 Finally , there is strong evidence to show that humus in the soil can confer a remarkable degree of resistance to plant and animal pests and diseases .
26 She concludes from her study that there is strong evidence to suggest that the ward ‘ climate ’ is an important factor in the satisfaction of students with their learning environment .
27 There is strong evidence to suggest that the brain does not cope with information in a simple , linear form .
28 Such an application can only be made with the leave of the court , and the court may only grant leave if it is satisfied , inter alia , that ‘ there is reasonable cause to believe that if the court 's inherent jurisdiction is not exercised with respect to the child he is likely to suffer significant harm : ’ see section 100(3) and ( 4 ) ( b ) .
29 Where there is reasonable cause to believe that a person has information about the child 's whereabouts he may be ordered to disclose it ( s95(6) ) .
30 ‘ ( 1 ) Where a coroner is informed that the body of a person ( ‘ the deceased ’ ) is lying within his district and there is reasonable cause to suspect that the deceased — ( a ) has died a violent or an unnatural death ; ( b ) has died a sudden death of which the cause is unknown ; or ( c ) has died in prison or in such a place or in such circumstances as to require an inquest under any other Act , then … the coroner shall as soon as practicable hold an inquest into the death of the deceased either with or , subject to subsection ( 3 ) below , without a jury .
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