Example sentences of "[is] [pron] that [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , given the availability of a trained and skilled operator there is nothing that a good desktop publishing system can not achieve in monochrome or spot colour publishing that was not possible by traditional methods . |
| 2 | Especially their new record , which is everything that a modern rock CD should be . |
| 3 | Technological change is something that the personal computer industry is only too familiar with ; buy the latest home computer this week and it 's likely to be out of date within six months ! |
| 4 | This is something that the Anglo-American Phyllis Bottome , writing in England in wartime , finds hard to accept : |
| 5 | This is something that the British harp on that incessantly , using it as the main reason for choosing one restaurant over another , but do we really understand what it means and are we consistent in our assessment of perceived value ? |
| 6 | One feature of English verse that is scanted by this method , or can be acknowledged only incidentally , is one that every careful reader knows from his or her experience : tempo , the speeding up or slowing down of enunciation , and therefore of apprehension , as we read through a line or through several lines in sequence . |
| 7 | Well , my feeling is , and it 's really the same message that you get from most greens and most environment books , is that under-consumption , that is poverty in the poor countries , is linked to over-consumption in the rich countries , and we have to grasp this nettle — it 's one that the Conservative Party in its White Paper on the environment avoids noticeably — we have to grasp the nettle , that as long as we are over-consuming there 's not going to be enough to go round everywhere , and my book shows that this pattern is really a three hundred year old pattern dating from the first Colonial expansion of Europe and the slave trade , and it 's still going on today . |
| 8 | To put all the above into context , and that 's something that no published review is ever likely to achieve , require a detailed understanding of what methods are currently being used to produce documents . |
| 9 | And so the media are constantly giving the impression that there 's something that the British government should be doing . |
| 10 | But it needs to be borne in mind , before we embark on the various ways of doing this , that it is by no means a universally accepted need nor is it that every bereaved person with whom we come in contact will need ‘ help ’ . |
| 11 | Why is it that a specific person has the indefinable ‘ It ’ and another has not ? |
| 12 | How much more likely is it that a professional boxer , for example , would suffer permanent bodily damage , than a kidney donor ? |
| 13 | How is it that a large cavern with a high roof may be formed underground ? |
| 14 | Michael Land of Sussex University , our foremost authority on invertebrate eyes , is worried , and so am I. Is it that the necessary mutations can not arise , given the way Nautilus embryos develop ? |
| 15 | Why is it that the psychic gifts often cause apprehension and even fear ? |
| 16 | ‘ What is it that the Roman poet Catullus said ? |
| 17 | Or is it that the working class has shrunk to a level which means it can never put Labour into power ? |
| 18 | Why is it that the black sheep of the family is often the most likeable . |
| 19 | How likely is it that the other staff would volunteer information , especially about practices in which they themselves might have been involved ? |
| 20 | If all those taxes have been abolished since 1979 , why is it that the average family , starting out in 1979 with a debt of 45 per cent . |
| 21 | Is it that the overall proportion of Management to staff is too high so the balance is being put right ? |
| 22 | Why is it that the simple act of purchasing something can often be hell ? |
| 23 | Or is it that the sudden perception of one 's own constant vulnerability provides , in its black , clouded way , a dazzling , near-religious feeling of revelation — this is how things really are ; that to be born is , by definition , to be a victim ? |
| 24 | When eating out , why is it that the next table 's conversation is often so much more fascinating and intriguing ? |
| 25 | Is it that the human being is secretly nothing without others ? |