Example sentences of "is [adj] [verb] that [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equally there is little to suggest that past human groups were any less exploitative of their environment — or any less spendthrift in their consumption of its resources — than we are today . |
| 2 | It is strange to think that these two extraordinary symphonies came from the composer of the student-exercise Piano Quartet movement which has been recorded by the Alpe Adria Ensemble . |
| 3 | It is strange to relate that this short stretch of water should be such a barrier but the hills of Wouldham and village are as foreign to some people of Halling as any parts of the world and in fact there are some who travel all over the country and to some places abroad , but have lived all their lives in the village without ever setting foot on the further banks of the river . |
| 4 | It is strange to relate that this well-known symbol has been comparatively neglected by social scientists and especially by social psychologists . |
| 5 | The world can be divided up on a purely climatic basis by using any climatic parameters one likes , so that the number of possible methods of division is very large , but , as most of these are meaningless geographically , it is possible to say that pure climatic regions do not exist , at least from a geographer 's point of view . |
| 6 | The general form is Under certain conditions it is possible to show that any functional y may be expressed in the form ( Frechet 1910 ) . |
| 7 | While Fisher is right to argue that some important principles can , nevertheless , be applied , he is also right to say that the consumerist philosophy and concepts of compulsory care which involve acting in the individual 's interests are basically incompatible . |
| 8 | Hall is right to say that current Labour and Liberal parties can not take on the task of realignment , but would be equally correct in saying they ca n't be by-passed . |
| 9 | In connection with the location of the energy barrier separating the two states , it is interesting to remark that some crystallographic results have been interpreted as containing B II phosphates when in fact these conformations correspond to ε-ζ values of roughly +30° ( see , for example , 10 ) which in the light of our findings should be considered B I . |
| 10 | It is interesting to note that such detailed diagrams have similarities to the Petri nets of Furuta and Stotts [ 6 ] . |
| 11 | It is interesting to note that many fast bowlers during the 1920s and 1930s employed a long-off when bowling to Woolley , who was also , of course , a very useful slow left-arm bowler , who could probably be entrusted to get through 10 overs at reasonable cost . |
| 12 | It is interesting to note that severe physical exercise in the daytime is sometimes associated with increased deep sleep the following night ; perhaps there is a link here between deep sleep , an increase in growth hormone release , and the growth of muscular tissue that is produced by exercise . |
| 13 | It is interesting to note that these German demands for greater centrally-imposed discipline , together with their attacks on British plans for currency competition , came in spite of increasing interest in the proposal in France . |
| 14 | It is interesting to note that several Portuguese nationals were included in the Lisbon membership list . |
| 15 | It is interesting to note that some Muslim schools are considering opting out of local authority control and offering separate provision . |
| 16 | However , it is interesting to note that some wider forms of inter-group dependence can , paradoxically , act as a diversification mechanism to reduce organizational ambiguity , and may actually lessen the need for overall planning to ensure that specific interdependencies are always tightly managed . |
| 17 | However , it is crucial to recognize that such learned responses are not genetically transmitted to offspring . |
| 18 | And it is crucial to recognize that widespread racial discrimination has been an important factor in reproducing these patterns of employment and settlement and , as we shall see , also has a significant role in explanations of levels of achievement by black pupils in British schools . |
| 19 | They argue that it is misguided to pretend that these proscribed organisations ( like Sinn Fein ) either do not exist or do not carry massive popular support . |
| 20 | One is dismayed to learn that 3,000 million do not get pure drinking water and so are too weak to undertake the work necessary to grow more food . |
| 21 | It is easy to assume that any significant , gender-linked difference should be attributed to the general operation of gender roles . |
| 22 | It is easy to show that these two steps combine to give the required result . |
| 23 | IVF is already spreading to developing countries , and it is easy to imagine that other new methods will be introduced as well . |
| 24 | Experience is likely to show that this optional page is rarely completed because the extra costs have to be passed on to clients . |
| 25 | The simultaneous withdrawal of the state from regulative intervention in labour matters clearly advantaged employers and it is hard to deny that all this amounted to class legislation . |
| 26 | It is hard to recall that this peaceful pathway , less than a mile long , was once an important means of communication and is a vital link with part of Cornish history . |
| 27 | I could understand one man imagining that he saw a person in the immediate area of the box but it is hard to believe that two level-headed signalmen could have been mistaken enough to be confused by the same phenomenon . |
| 28 | If Alexander II had died before ascending the throne , it is hard to believe that some Russian Fortinbras would have said he was " likely , had he been put on , to have proved most royal " . |
| 29 | How much the meeting was told about the previous shipments to Iran is unclear but it is hard to believe that those present were not aware of them . |
| 30 | But it is hard to believe that three such bumblers could ever have got the paper off the ground . |