Example sentences of "is [adv] that the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is rather that the whole point of a national curriculum will be lost if it can not be assumed that children at 11 will be ready for whatever is the generally agreed content of the first year at secondary school . |
| 2 | My hon. Friend is right that the Labour party would be prepared to overrule parental ballots and to take grant-maintained schools back into the throes of LEA control , which is exactly what parents have voted to escape . |
| 3 | Perhaps it is right that the official institutions of a community should express moral judgements on behalf of its law-abiding members — but why should it have to take form of punishment ? |
| 4 | The difference between a more conventional company and an incorporated contract computer programmer/analyst is merely that the former can and does respond simultaneously to a multiplicity of orders which partly overlap and partly succeed one another . |
| 5 | For example , the Kenyan scholar Ali Mazrui has written that the reason why the Swahili word for a newspaper is gazeti is merely that the first papers that East Africans came into contact with were government gazettes . |
| 6 | We assume that it is enough that the new way will prove better than the old way once it has been tried for some time . |
| 7 | This is so that the flatter base becomes the top , ensuring a smoother surface to the cake . |
| 8 | The argument is thus that the major purpose behind project work from a teacher 's point of view should be skill development rather than knowledge acquisition . |
| 9 | The correct position is thus that the corporate entity is a vehicle for benefiting the interests of a specified group or groups . |
| 10 | So the really important thing that has happened is not that the official forecasts have been wrong , it is that the New Consensus , having been tried in the balance since we joined the ERM and , indeed , during the past 12 years as a whole , has been found wanting . |
| 11 | The point then is not that the subjective impression is infallible but that without it no choice of ends can arise , very much as no choice of means can arise without highly fallible generalizations about causal connexions . |
| 12 | The point of all this is not that the entire women 's liberation movement should support the Wages for Housework demand ( as at present formulated ) — a pretty remote possibility — but that it should recognise — as WfH does — the importance of feminism 's attitude to housewives . |
| 13 | The problem of recruitment administration is not that the individual tasks are difficult , but that the addition of fluctuations in the level of activity makes them difficult . |
| 14 | What is surprising is not that the rural past should be called up , but that the writer should invest it with the imaginative and emotional power that he does . |
| 15 | The point is not that the theological pronouncements of scientists are to be discounted but rather that they do sometimes have to be seen as efforts at mediation . |
| 16 | The likelihood is not that the whole system is ‘ switched off , but that parts of it are turned off in a very unsystematic way . |
| 17 | Remember the little truth theory that we did in lecture two or three , or when you do semantics in logic by swinging two model theories , when you interpret the expressions of a logical language , you have to assign a structure and , er the claim here is just that the natural language , that structure , structure that the semantic interpretation rules apply to , it 's just the syntactic structure . |
| 18 | When demand outstrips supply by the widest margin , the reason is usually that the original seller is trying to rig the market — as at the FA Cup final , or Wimbledon . |
| 19 | The explanation is usually that the top variety — the scion — is encouraged to put out its own roots , and then you have two lots of root and a better plant . |
| 20 | It is possibly that the judging system in Australia , where almost all judges are all-rounders and are passed to judge at group level , has not helped the development of type in Australia . |
| 21 | It is now that the final form of the book begins to emerge , and the researcher has to begin to withdraw from the research group . |
| 22 | It is now that the marked effect of training can most clearly be felt . |
| 23 | It is here that the ingenious suggestion of Finsinger and Vogelsang ( 1981 ) comes in , to provide what might be called an almost ideal constraint . |
| 24 | It is here that the sacred mysteries of Osiris 's resurrection were celebrated . |
| 25 | It is here that the contradictory character of the inner city assumes such significance . |
| 26 | It is here that the various valves , heaters etc. , comprising the Wolverton system of steam heating are manufactured , and all the stock of the Company is rapidly being fitted with this patent arrangement . |
| 27 | Bordered by desert , the Mediterranean and the Red Sea , this densely populated country is concentrated along the Nile , away from the blistering heat of the hinterland , and it is here that the great monuments to the country 's past civilisation lie . |
| 28 | It is here that the visual cat and mouse game in nature becomes so fascinating lending itself to multifold design possibilities . |
| 29 | It is here that the dauntless cavalrymen of Ellyrion rest when they return from their long sweeps through their embattled land . |
| 30 | It is here that the Old World 's finest wizards learn their art , and where the Empire 's deadly Battle Wizards are trained . |