Example sentences of "that it is [adj] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A large proportion of the Company 's employees work outside the United Kingdom and the directors believe that it is appropriate to establish share option schemes for those employees which broadly mirror the UK schemes but which take account of the laws , securities requirements and tax regimes in the countries where the employees live and work . |
| 32 | This is a language , a world view , a form of life perhaps , wherein one of the principal reasons for according praise to a type of art is that it is able to give voice to a politics ; Bolshevism in the main case , though as Callinicos acknowledges , one of the salient points about Modernism was its ‘ ambiguity , its capacity to express a variety of different political positions ’ ; that is , when it was not engaged on its more usual ‘ flight from politics ’ ( p. 161 ) . |
| 33 | The results presented above show that the 80 bp promoter fragment binds at least two different factors and that it is able to modulate transcription in both homologous and heterologous constructions . |
| 34 | ( 7 ) The whole report must be written in such clear and precise language that it is able to withstand cross-examination by Counsel . |
| 35 | Finally , there is a growing consensus ( epitomised by the Clothier committee report ) that it is ethical to use gene therapy in a variety of somatic ways , but not in gametes or embryos , and indeed that gene therapy may provide a new general enabling technology for protein and drug delivery as well as for gene therapy through the entry of normal genes . |
| 36 | Inevitably , the Church of England will sooner or later announce officially that it is acceptable to express love and commitment to another woman or another man in a sexual relationship . |
| 37 | Although femininity is often a problem for women seeking equal treatment with men — in that it is easier to take advantage of people who are gentle than those who are aggressive and pushy — its positive aspects in terms of openness , emotional expression and human warmth are also important . |
| 38 | Freedom of choice is no longer on the agenda , especially now that American Jews have discovered that it is easier to raise money for absorbing Soviet Jews in Israel than it is for resettling them in the US . |
| 39 | They are almost 20 years old and should have been replaced , but the company has accepted that it is unlikely to get government approval for new ferries until the bridge controversy has been resolved . |
| 40 | The evidence that it is inefficient to use meat for food is well documented . |
| 41 | But it might well be thought that if a procession has been regularly held even for such a comparatively short period of time , the police are aware that it is likely to take place , and it is therefore outside the rationale behind the advance notification requirement . |
| 42 | Well , if a thesis that it is difficult to make sense of allows a conclusion that is repugnant , then the rational course would seem to be to take this as another reason for distrusting the thesis : not as a reason for admitting the repugnant conclusion . |
| 43 | It is well known that it is difficult to grow plantation rubber ( Hevea brasiliensis , originally from Brazil ) successfully in the forest lands where that species grows wild , and it grows best in Malaysia ; cocoa , which is also native to the New World , grows best in West Africa , cloves from Indonesia , in Zanzibar , and so on . |
| 44 | ‘ This is the best art fair I 've done since 1989 ’ enthuses Susan Sheehan , a New York print dealer who sold twelve works , including a Matisse aquatint , for ‘ just under $100,000 ’ , and New York dealer Peter Findlay adds , ‘ There is a sense that it is alright to buy art again ’ . |
| 45 | Some consider that it is inconsistent to show issue costs of one kind of capital instrument in the profit and loss account and those relating to another kind in the statement of total recognised gains and losses . |
| 46 | Children of well-developed martyrs learn that it is wrong to enjoy life , wrong to fulfil your own needs , wrong to express anger directly and that ‘ love ’ means self-sacrifice . |
| 47 | When the doctor confirms that it is important to provide care , or when too much anxiety is felt in leaving an elderly person alone , the time has come to consider alternative options . |
| 48 | This lack of gender specificity in sex-role self-rating , and women 's and men 's similar scores , suggests that it is important to measure femininity and masculinity self-ratings in both sexes . |
| 49 | The danger of adopting a systems approach uncritically is that it is assumed that it is sufficient to identify system structures and to portray the multitudinous variables involved in a particular system which then reinforces the first law of ecology as graphically described by Commoner ( 1972 ) that everything is connected to everything else . |