Example sentences of "is [adj] [to-vb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Despite the evidence of solidarity there is little to suggest that this culture , even though it is against the formal organizational structure , is one that produces active protest against the conditions of the work enterprise .
2 There is little to suggest that this view changed , at least until the sterling crisis of 1947 .
3 Moreover , there is little to suggest that public-sector investment has been successful in encouraging equivalent private spending .
4 It is difficult to know how far they were a significant deterrent to claiming relief , but over the long term there is little to suggest that any parish maintained the lowering of its poor rate which sometimes accompanied the initial operation of a workhouse .
5 Yet the central point is that it is absurd to assume that any woman is less competent to direct her life than any man she marries .
6 To someone such as I , who had the vague but tenacious idea that Indians communicated in pictures only , a fragile method , it is pleasant to see that one scholar of native American languages calls the manuscripts ‘ the largest corpus of texts ’ of them and ‘ a remarkable resource ’ .
7 It is pleasant to find that this believer in the perfectibility of mankind was a good father to them all .
8 When there is a market for the intermediate product , it is usual to assume that each division can trade with that market if it wants to .
9 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 .
10 It is possible to say that Christian beliefs are ‘ symbolically true ’ .
11 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 .
12 It is possible to think that this plebeian has been lent some part of Naipaul 's aristocratic fastidiousness , some part of his hostility , while also suffering the consequences of an exposure to these qualities , and to recall that both Ahmed and the author of An Area of Darkness are preoccupied with the hanks of human shit that litter certain landscapes .
13 Sir Ian is right to emphasise that plebeian savagery was more vulnerable than its patrician counterpart : cock-throwing declined while fox-hunting flour ished .
14 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 .
15 Keith Flett is right to claim that Labour needs active grassroots supporters to defeat the Tories ( Letters , 24 April ) .
16 Although my hon. Friend is right to say that budget-holding practices have been outstandingly successful and are now very popular with most doctors —
17 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 .
18 Half the patients who require heart surgery are dealt with immediately , but the hon. Gentleman is right to say that some patients have to wait .
19 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 .
20 Second the behavioural view of such behaviour was introduced along with the concept that in the context of intervention it is profitable to consider that all behaviour is learned .
21 However , given current UK time costs , it is unrealistic to believe that many listeners will hear a given commercial many times .
22 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 .
23 This immediately puts their organisation in a good light and the journalist is disposed to feel that this outfit may be a useful source of information in the future .
24 It is popular to assume that other people resist change but , of course , we are all potential resisters of change .
25 The CTP proclaims that the link between the perceived object and the perception is just an ordinary bit of the great causal nexus of nature ( it needs to believe this , as we shall see presently ) and yet it is prepared to accept that this segment of the chain has a rather privileged status ; at the very least , that it has a beginning and an end .
26 Is this to deny that living things obey the laws of physics ?
27 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 .
28 ( 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 . )
29 It is interesting to see that some developments in reading instruction are stressing the need to help pupils cope with text organisational problems .
30 It is interesting to note that rectilinear structures are frequently found in one of two distinctive locations , often accompanied by marked functional variations .
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