Example sentences of "is [adv] [verb] that [noun] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | He adds , however , that to recognize the point is only to recognize that testing is what matters . |
| 2 | It is generally assumed that ASL is historically linked to the French Sign Language of the early 19th century , researchers seeing evidence of cognate signs in French Sign Language and ASL ( fig. 8.1 ) . |
| 3 | This is not to say that meat is unimportant to us now . |
| 4 | This is not to say that radicalism is dead ; far from it . |
| 5 | This is not to say that demand is necessarily elastic with respect to the rate of interest . |
| 6 | Predictably , the terse prose of Hemingway is found to lack the transformational complexities typical of Faulkner : which is not to say that Hemingway is innocent of transformations , only that he tends to use transformations of a different kind . |
| 7 | This is not to say that economy is paramount ; indeed , economy is secondary to what should be an overriding principle in public health — namely , equity . |
| 8 | That is not to say that antiquity is a valid criterion for the establishment of a convention . |
| 9 | Though this is not to say that abortion is a topic to be taken lightly as it is a human life a woman is dealing with and I think she should think carefully about all her options before she makes a decision but in the end it is her baby and up to her what happens . |
| 10 | This is not to deny that Branagh is at his best as a performer in Henry 's most anguished outpouring , his prayer to the god of battles before Agincourt ; here Branagh the actor is least hampered by Branagh the self-publicist . |
| 11 | This is not to deny that plan-making is a very valuable function of our local authorities ; it is rather to point out that the existing powers to implement their plans are restricted by the price that the market puts on some land , and by the fact that the planners ' resource is in the hands of private owners rather than at the disposal of the community . |
| 12 | This is not to deny that accuracy is important . |
| 13 | This is not to suggest that consistency is an unworthy value : the argument is rather that there is a need to decide upon the categories to which the argument of consistency is being applied , and above all to recognize that simple resort to the allegation of inconsistency might serve to conceal the conflict between a number of social interests or principles . |
| 14 | It is usually said that repetition is used for emphasis . |
| 15 | ALTERNATIVE comedian Alexei Sayle is out to show that vandalism is a serious problem . |
| 16 | It is often assumed that winter is the most suitable time for training yet only 43% indicated that any time during winter would be suitable . |
| 17 | However , as explained , such problems are often symptoms of deeper organisational and management problems : ‘ It is often assumed that stress is caused by too much work or tasks that are too difficult , but it is more likely to be because staff do n't have a context for what they are doing . ’ |
| 18 | It is often assumed that Foucault is simply the philosopher of discontinuity , merely substituting it where previously there had been continuity ; but the discontinuous is emphasized only because so much stress is normally placed on the continuous . |
| 19 | For example , it is often assumed that multiculturalism is methodologically individualist , and reduces racism to an individual pathology of prejudice , whilst antiracism is radically holist and insists on the primacy of structural processes . |
| 20 | It is often said that alcohol is ‘ the only little pleasure that old people have ’ , which may be true to an extent , but if drinking becomes a problem then it is for the individuals to decide how much of a pleasure drinking is , and whether they want help to stop . |
| 21 | It is often said that delegation is the art of management . |
| 22 | It is often claimed that hypertension is prevalent in diabetic subjects ( Christlieb , 1982 ) , although the evidence for such a statement is conflicting and by no means universally accepted . |
| 23 | It is boldly shown that God is the Creator of all — the universe , man , and everything else . |
| 24 | 3 Of course New Yorks is not the capital of the USA. 4 It is well known that Maths is harder than English . |
| 25 | Today , it is plainly recognized that stress is heart-related . |
| 26 | It is sometimes said that mutation is ‘ random ’ . |
| 27 | Thus it is claimed that God is perfectly just , where we are imperfectly so — indeed it is sometimes said that God is ‘ justice ’ or ‘ justice itself ’ . |
| 28 | In the great amount of talk about the permissive society , it is sometimes claimed that marriage is losing its sanctity because couples live together without being married and the number of illegitimate babies ( those born to unmarried mothers ) is rising . |
| 29 | In work organisations it is universally believed that cooperation is a Good Thing , and achieve greater productivity than lack of cooperation . |
| 30 | It is therefore argued that translation is the specific practice of lawyers in terms of which their place in the social structure should be theorised . |