Example sentences of "[adj] be that [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is clear is that the financial cost of alcohol misuse to society as a whole runs into hundreds of millions of pounds each year . |
| 2 | This is very possible but , what is clear is that the only course open to you is to introduce your ferrets and hope that they will bolt a reasonable number of the occupants , since the depths involved make digging out impossible . |
| 3 | What is becoming increasingly clear is that the Labour party is trying to do nothing other than promote scare stories so as deliberately to frighten people who have traditionally relied on adult education courses . |
| 4 | Rather , what this chapter has been concerned to make clear is that the potential impact of records of achievement , as well as that of the GCSE , can not be determined without making reference to both initiatives . |
| 5 | There are other meanings to be drawn from this first sonnet , of course , but what is clear is that the poetic sequence of Astrophil and Stella may be seen announcing itself as a failure , a success , both , or neither . |
| 6 | The speaker who uses it feels himself or herself to be stating , with an explicitness not found in the merely qualifying adjective , even when it is ascriptive , that the property expressed does hold of the entity identified by the whole noun phrase ; an inevitable concomitant is that the postnominal adjective must be to a certain extent salient in the situation where it is used . |
| 7 | What is indefensible is that the tawdry motley should be financed by an annual impost on you and me . |
| 8 | What is interesting is that a different interpretation was also forthcoming , both from a lawyer and from thermodynamics . |
| 9 | However , what is most interesting is that a deliberate attempt was made to sell it as a concept rather than as what might have hitherto been seen as a package of infrastructural measures . |
| 10 | Yes , well , I particularly welcome this erm concentration on areas , I think it 's an excellent idea , particularly in relation to housing , I think what we will find interesting is that a whole number of Oxford citizens , perhaps indeed from Barton , Blackbird Leys , Marston originally , who are badly housed in these areas and waiting in the most appalling accommodation for the opportunity of a council home . |
| 11 | But what is then especially interesting is that the cultural process of including and incorporating areas of the oral culture into printed forms is very complex indeed , and in some important respects contradictory . |
| 12 | What is equally interesting is that the journalistic profession has clasped the promising idea of the Independent to its bosom . |
| 13 | What was clear was that the new department was intent on circumscribing medical influence within the state . |
| 14 | The allegations were unverifiable , but what was clear was that the mixed population was not around to enjoy day one of its newly-bestowed freedom . |
| 15 | The difficulty in acknowledging the possibility of harm from a method of prophylaxis that seems natural is that the potential hazard is unspecified and hypothetical whereas the potential benefit is specific . |
| 16 | The fourth reason why the Labour party 's hypocrisy and deceit on unemployment is incredible is that the Labour party — I shall not talk about its Common Market Safeguards Committee , of which eight members of the Shadow Cabinet are still members — and the Opposition Front Bench are just as committed as the Government to membership of the exchange rate mechanism . |
| 17 | What does , however , seem likely is that the great marketing operation for citizenship education , like that of citizenship before it , has involved the promotion of a product which its advertisers do not fully comprehend . |
| 18 | What is likely is that the royal burgh and its muir were set up by David 's brother , Alexander I , in about 1120 , but what is certain is that when David founded Holyrood Abbey in 1128 , or soon after , his charter makes it clear that Edinburgh was by then a going concern . |
| 19 | One point that is obvious is that a matching grant is generally more successful than a non-matching grant in stimulating local expenditure on a particular good or service . |
| 20 | What is less obvious is that the marine transgression , or whatever other event it may be at Locality " A " could well be reflected in some way in the different facies at Locality " B " . |
| 21 | ‘ What is most depressing is that the Balkan conflict may be a harbinger of what is to come , if , as now seems likely , human rights can be violated with impunity . |
| 22 | What is , perhaps , even more important is that the Chief Inspector will also decide which accidents will not be investigated . |
| 23 | What is important is that the British coal industry should achieve contracts with the generators in the next round of contracts due to start in April 1993 . |
| 24 | The most important is that the Guatemalan government is responding to international pressure . |
| 25 | What was even more alarming was that the American president believed North to be some sort of hero . |
| 26 | What is immediately apparent is that the political control of the district authority made very little difference to the Conservative/Labour swing in 1990 . |
| 27 | Equally probable is that the pre-schizophrenic child and the schizophrenic adult produced some of the abnormalities of the parents . |
| 28 | We 've argued that that would stimulate migration as opposed simply to accommodate past trends , so we 've argued that , but the the problem for West Yorkshire well for Leeds in particular is that the brown field sites we have , the regeneration that we need is not of sites which would readily accommodate housing , they 're not sites which lend themselves as nice places to live . |
| 29 | First , the sense in which the strategy is evolutionarily stable is that no other strategy ( among those considered in the model ) can do better than it . |
| 30 | Well , no , there would n't but what 's so odd is that the other horse chestnut trees in the area seem alright . |