Example sentences of "[is] [adj] [verb] [that] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the evidence of solidarity there is little to suggest that this culture , even though it is against the formal organizational structure , is one that produces active protest against the conditions of the work enterprise . |
| 2 | There is little to suggest that this view changed , at least until the sterling crisis of 1947 . |
| 3 | Moreover , there is little to suggest that public-sector investment has been successful in encouraging equivalent private spending . |
| 4 | It is difficult to know how far they were a significant deterrent to claiming relief , but over the long term there is little to suggest that any parish maintained the lowering of its poor rate which sometimes accompanied the initial operation of a workhouse . |
| 5 | Yet the central point is that it is absurd to assume that any woman is less competent to direct her life than any man she marries . |
| 6 | To someone such as I , who had the vague but tenacious idea that Indians communicated in pictures only , a fragile method , it is pleasant to see that one scholar of native American languages calls the manuscripts ‘ the largest corpus of texts ’ of them and ‘ a remarkable resource ’ . |
| 7 | It is pleasant to find that this believer in the perfectibility of mankind was a good father to them all . |
| 8 | When there is a market for the intermediate product , it is usual to assume that each division can trade with that market if it wants to . |
| 9 | It is possible to think that this plebeian has been lent some part of Naipaul 's aristocratic fastidiousness , some part of his hostility , while also suffering the consequences of an exposure to these qualities , and to recall that both Ahmed and the author of An Area of Darkness are preoccupied with the hanks of human shit that litter certain landscapes . |
| 10 | Sir Ian is right to emphasise that plebeian savagery was more vulnerable than its patrician counterpart : cock-throwing declined while fox-hunting flour ished . |
| 11 | Macdonald is right to state that future research must find out how genes and environment operate ( or co-operate ? ) and that newer twin study-designs may help with this . |
| 12 | My hon. Friend is right to say that British Rail needs to use available modern technology to reduce further the incidence of accidents involving loss of life and injury on the railways . |
| 13 | J R Hall ( Points of View , 12 February ) is right to suggest that British Rail would be able to make a profit if the Government took full responsibility for funding the provision and maintenance of railway infrastructure as it does roads . |
| 14 | Second the behavioural view of such behaviour was introduced along with the concept that in the context of intervention it is profitable to consider that all behaviour is learned . |
| 15 | Although innovative schemes have made it possible to maintain at home people with disabilities that were once thought to require hospital or residential care , it is unrealistic to suggest that institutional care could be entirely dispensed with . |
| 16 | This immediately puts their organisation in a good light and the journalist is disposed to feel that this outfit may be a useful source of information in the future . |
| 17 | The CTP proclaims that the link between the perceived object and the perception is just an ordinary bit of the great causal nexus of nature ( it needs to believe this , as we shall see presently ) and yet it is prepared to accept that this segment of the chain has a rather privileged status ; at the very least , that it has a beginning and an end . |
| 18 | It is wrong to say that real ale should be served at room temperature : too warm and the beer tastes tacky and rancid ; too cold and the subtle palate of the beer is masked by the chill . |
| 19 | ( It is interesting to see that recent union negotiations may place the wages of such workers above those of refuse collectors for the first time . ) |
| 20 | Library lessons taught library layout , the Dewey Decimal Classification , the index , and the contents page in ways which were not dissimilar from library lessons of 20 years ago , and it is interesting to note that absolute silence is the requirement at all times . |
| 21 | If this peptide plays a significant part in regulating fat consumption , it is interesting to note that dietary fat has a role in colipase regulation with an adaptive response to dietary lipids having been shown with at least a twofold increase in pancreatic procolipase in rats fed a 25–30% lipid containing diet . |
| 22 | It is interesting to note that high spring tides occur at approximately the same time of the day every year in each location on the coast . |
| 23 | It is interesting to note that this situation was in contrast to an earlier serious problem in the banking system , the secondary banking crisis of 1973–1974 , in which less well known banks were subject to less regulation than the more stable institutions . |
| 24 | It is interesting to note that this example shows that what underlies Hobbes 's rejection of formal causes is , perhaps , no more than an impatience with what the Aristotelians said about them , and a desire to disassociate himself from that tradition . |
| 25 | It is crucial to understand that this class relationship is a social relationship which is not automatically and directly produced by specific techniques of production . |
| 26 | It then becomes impossible to rank societies as more or less aggressive than one another , just as it is impossible to say that one society is more or less evil than another . |
| 27 | In my judgment , it is impossible to say that that decision is wrong and this appeal will be dismissed . |
| 28 | Given these assertions , it is easy to see that one reason for the neglect of Freud by sociologists , especially in Britain and to a lesser extent in the United States , is as much due to the fact that intellectual fashions have changed as to anything intrinsic to Freud 's theory . |
| 29 | ‘ It is easy to see that all work represents a fight against something , an attack upon the environment . |
| 30 | It is easy to see that would-be DIY funeral undertakers would be as welcome as a swarm of greenfly at the Chelsea flower show . |