Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [v-ing] that [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Once again , it is striking that these transformations , which include the development of many of the forms of marketing , design and distribution characteristic of mass production , occurred before the rise of machinery in this industry .
2 There are two crystallographically independent copies of the sCD2 molecule in the crystal and it is striking that this association occurs , in similar forms , for pairs of both copy 1 and copy 2 molecules ( the two versions are compared in Fig.5 a ) .
3 And it is striking that this week 's pressure on the peseta did not reflect a fundamental misalignment of the currency : on most estimates , the Spanish currency was not at all over-valued .
4 In a changing world it is reassuring that some things never change .
5 When Marx tells us in the Communist Manifesto that ‘ all history is the history of class struggles ’ , he is claiming that all conflict and change in societies can ultimately be traced back to the underlying class conflict , based on the opposing class interests arising from exploitation .
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