Example sentences of "is [adj] [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , there is little to suggest that public-sector investment has been successful in encouraging equivalent private spending . |
| 2 | It is possible to argue that certain sections could , with advantage , have been expanded to stress the more chemical aspects of topics — eg the section of enzymes ‘ in reverse ’ ( why not refer to this as synthesis ? ) touches on an area of great value and which is increasingly used industrially . |
| 3 | It is possible to say that Christian beliefs are ‘ symbolically true ’ . |
| 4 | If it is possible to show that existential propositions are equivalent to denials of the validity of inferences of a certain kind , then instead of talking about existence we can confine ourselves to talking about the validity of inference . |
| 5 | Sir Ian is right to emphasise that plebeian savagery was more vulnerable than its patrician counterpart : cock-throwing declined while fox-hunting flour ished . |
| 6 | Macdonald is right to state that future research must find out how genes and environment operate ( or co-operate ? ) and that newer twin study-designs may help with this . |
| 7 | Keith Flett is right to claim that Labour needs active grassroots supporters to defeat the Tories ( Letters , 24 April ) . |
| 8 | Although my hon. Friend is right to say that budget-holding practices have been outstandingly successful and are now very popular with most doctors — |
| 9 | My hon. Friend is right to say that British Rail needs to use available modern technology to reduce further the incidence of accidents involving loss of life and injury on the railways . |
| 10 | J R Hall ( Points of View , 12 February ) is right to suggest that British Rail would be able to make a profit if the Government took full responsibility for funding the provision and maintenance of railway infrastructure as it does roads . |
| 11 | Although innovative schemes have made it possible to maintain at home people with disabilities that were once thought to require hospital or residential care , it is unrealistic to suggest that institutional care could be entirely dispensed with . |
| 12 | It is popular to assume that other people resist change but , of course , we are all potential resisters of change . |
| 13 | Is this to deny that living things obey the laws of physics ? |
| 14 | It is wrong to say that real ale should be served at room temperature : too warm and the beer tastes tacky and rancid ; too cold and the subtle palate of the beer is masked by the chill . |
| 15 | ( It is interesting to see that recent union negotiations may place the wages of such workers above those of refuse collectors for the first time . ) |
| 16 | It is interesting to note that rectilinear structures are frequently found in one of two distinctive locations , often accompanied by marked functional variations . |
| 17 | It is interesting to note that other countries are now copying our know-how funds because they have been of such help to the former Soviet Union and other eastern European countries . |
| 18 | Library lessons taught library layout , the Dewey Decimal Classification , the index , and the contents page in ways which were not dissimilar from library lessons of 20 years ago , and it is interesting to note that absolute silence is the requirement at all times . |
| 19 | It is interesting to note that electric vehicles built in 1920 were still in use in the 1950s . |
| 20 | If this peptide plays a significant part in regulating fat consumption , it is interesting to note that dietary fat has a role in colipase regulation with an adaptive response to dietary lipids having been shown with at least a twofold increase in pancreatic procolipase in rats fed a 25–30% lipid containing diet . |
| 21 | It is interesting to note that high spring tides occur at approximately the same time of the day every year in each location on the coast . |
| 22 | ( It is interesting to note that freshwater pearls were known to the Chinese by the beginning of the first millennium B.C. ) |
| 23 | It is interesting to learn that nuclear scientists are now seeking the particles necessary to anti-matter and may have found some of them . |
| 24 | It is sad to see that conservation bodies seem to have halted their attempts to purchase the key Cairngorms estate of Mar Lodge . |
| 25 | It is easy to see that would-be DIY funeral undertakers would be as welcome as a swarm of greenfly at the Chelsea flower show . |
| 26 | It is easy to deduce that other systems do , too ; many targets are being hit again and again . |
| 27 | This point needs to be developed to incorporate the discussion by Wood of ‘ disarticulated ’ capitalism under colonial and post-colonial conditions , a discussion which suggests it is false to conclude that pure capitalism had become established by colonialism . |
| 28 | So far as the early history of the emancipation process is concerned Field 's position is probably stronger than Zakharova 's , for although Nicholas I 's call for a militia gave rise to disturbances among the peasantry in 1855 , although almost all the memoranda which circulated in private during the Crimean War referred to the possibility of peasant risings , and although Alexander II alluded to the prospect of rural uprisings both in his speech to the Moscow gentry and in his comments on the papers submitted to him by Haxthausen , it is hard to prove that rural developments took pride of place among the reasons for setting reform in train . |
| 29 | The noble land-owners ' outlook was that of passive rentiers who made it a point of pride to be cheated by their bailiffs ; even if entail had not put technical difficulties in the way of raising capital it is hard to believe that Spanish aristocrats would have conceived of higher rents as a reward of investment . |
| 30 | None the less , Springhall is unwilling to conclude that young people were repressed by adults . |