Example sentences of "[is] [det] [noun] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is little chance that new mines will open in Britain to excavate these metals . |
| 2 | ‘ There is little doubt that financial management is an aspect of life which gives many people sleepless nights , ’ Education Minister Jeremy Hanley said at the launch in the CAB 's Belfast headquarters . |
| 3 | Whatever the differences between Protestantism and Catholicism there is little doubt that financial matters play far too important a part in their affairs . |
| 4 | While there is little doubt that endoscopic sclerotherapy provides a valuable and effective means of controlling acute variceal haemorrhage its role in the long term management of the problem remains controversial . |
| 5 | If pay settlements in the private sector continue to decelerate to 2 per cent and the underlying rate of inflation edges up to around 3.75 per cent by the end of this year when the effects of cheaper mortgages start working their way out of consumer budgets , there is little doubt that many individuals will find their real disposable incomes squeezed . |
| 6 | There is little doubt that annual inspection , maintenance and the repairing of damage in use will eliminate a high proportion of the problems arising from neglect . |
| 7 | Taking advantage of the disordered and uncertain state of things it is not surprising that some mineral " owners " felt they ought to have reward for the working of minerals on their land , and there is little doubt that legal issues could and did arise where such " illegal " mining was detected . |
| 8 | No one expected to reverse the pull of 14 years of refugee resettlement overnight , and there is little doubt that voluntary repatriation would pick up speed if the Hong Kong authorities used quiet persuasion instead of the big stick . |
| 9 | But whatever is ultimately decided about where person , place and time deixis belong , there is little doubt that most aspects of discourse deixis and social deixis will lie outside the scope ofa truth-conditional semantics . |
| 10 | Furthermore , the value of MRI in other areas of oncology , is beginning to be recognised and there is little doubt that further advances in technology and in the development of new contrast agents will carry MRI into a new era . |
| 11 | There is little doubt that some sort of hostelry stood on the site from the Middle Ages . |
| 12 | There is little doubt that some Frenchmen fired on Germans during the raid and afterwards , although on this occasion no hostages were shot . |
| 13 | However , there is little doubt that this phenomenon is a most important one in our species and it can only be explained by assuming that , with the beginnings of hunting , neotenous changes suddenly became adaptive . |
| 14 | At present MRI is not routinely used in clinical practice for assessing bone marrow malignancy , but as scanners become more widely available , there is little doubt that this field will expand into one of the major applications of MRI in oncology . |
| 15 | However , there is little doubt that this precaution , intended to provide reassurance , was a grim reminder of the ever present danger . |
| 16 | Outstanding incompatibilities not resolved by the ABI — and there is little doubt that different look and feels will still prevail — are to be addressed by a streamlined porting environment that can be whittled down over time as more features are incorporated into the ABI . |
| 17 | But there is little doubt that charter-train profit can be read in seven-figure sums rather than six and that as a business venture , InterCity has not done badly at all . |
| 18 | Diamond and Smith ( 1982 , 1984 ) and Diamond ( 1985 , 1987 ) have argued that there is little evidence that all students not admitted to their first-choice institution will be prepared to substitute an alternative institution particularly if this is one from a different sector . |
| 19 | However , as we have seen , there is little evidence that such poverty did decline in this period ; indeed the survival of more mouths to fed may have increased it . |
| 20 | Two other constraints also operate : the parties have difficulty raising sufficient money to fight campaigns ( national and local appeals are common when an election is in the offing ) and there is little evidence that increased expenditure in local campaigns necessarily helps win elections . |
| 21 | Although there is little evidence that any treatment changes the natural course of osteonecrosis , early diagnosis is important to be able to recommend the patient possible new job training , etc . |
| 22 | There is little evidence that social class was a conscious force among other groups during British rule , with the possible exception of the new élite , or ‘ middle class ’ . |
| 23 | In addition , there is little evidence that qualified entrants who demand university education but who are not admitted will be prepared to substitute a public sector place . |
| 24 | As we have already pointed out , the crime rate in general is increasing for all age groups , and there is little evidence that juvenile criminality is increasing at a very much greater rate than crime in general . |
| 25 | In practice , however , there is little evidence that Minor award schools were visibly disenchanted by their smaller funding . |
| 26 | Despite the demonstration , for instance , by conservative researchers like Douglas ( 1967 ) that after 1944 girls in primary schools consistently demonstrated their academic superiority over boys , there is little evidence that this superiority followed girls into their secondary school . |
| 27 | There is little question that overseas markets , by and large the trophies of war , were of great value for the growth of English manufacturing over the eighteenth century . |
| 28 | The only problem that I can see is that fact that many books can not be taken home and that many sources can not be photocopied . |
| 29 | There is some concern that such schemes could be killed off by privatisation . |
| 30 | There is some evidence that low salinities induced by freshwater may result in physiological damage to corals . |