Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] is that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 What has not yet been conclusively demonstrated is that birds learn to avoid brightly coloured sickening prey more quickly than equivalent but duller coloured prey .
2 ‘ I suppose that what you 're really saying is that Guy was attracted to me because he could pretend I was a boy ! ’
3 The Unionist MP Ken Maginnis , a former UDR member , said : ‘ What I hope is not happening is that people who — as I would have had in my time — had montages for lawful and necessary purposes will be made scapegoats . ’
4 A lot of the times what is really happening is that people are being put into artificial jobs .
5 All that is here assumed is that reasons are insufficient to establish the superiority of one option over the others .
6 What is immediately needed is that teachers should bring to bear on their day to day problems astringent intellectual scrutiny .
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