Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [be] that [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 What is so amazing is that this stuff keeps going on .
2 What makes the study of the English choral renaissance so fascinating is that these ideals have arisen there in ways that complicate ( but in no way confute ) the argument of Richard Taruskin and others who regard them as a projection of certain 20th-century musical ideas and tastes .
3 What is especially curious is that this questionnaire is strongly reminiscent of others which are well-established as a marketing technique , and are supplemented by actual marketing surveys .
4 What is more unexpected is that such inequalities have increased over the years .
5 What was even more surprising was that this Union , so unnatural to France , should still endure after nearly two years of war and reverses .
6 What is legally disturbing is that this aspect appears in a summing-up at all , since it encourages an assumption that a libel has been perpetrated .
7 And in looking at the experience not merely of Asia , but also of Africa , what becomes increasingly apparent is that most development strategies have tended _ particularly when we look at technical change — erm have tended to bypass women , or in many cases one also notes that the impact of technical change has been detrimental to poor women , and examples of this can be found , for instance , in terms of adoption of certain kinds of technique , like mechanisation of rice processing in parts of Asia , where one finds that there has been a large scale displacement of landless women .
8 What is quite clear is that any success will rest on the basic sciences of virology and molecular biology , and that , without research into obscure aspects of these subjects the direct hunt for new cures would be no better than shooting in the dark with unfamiliar weapons at an undefined target .
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