Example sentences of "is [adv] [verb] that [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 2.1 It is widely recognised that English law is defective in failing to provide satisfactory machinery for the imposition on freehold land of positive obligations ( such as obligations to repair and to contribute to communal maintenance costs ) which can then be enforced against successors in title to the original owner of the land . |
| 2 | It is widely believed that local competition and small populations mean that volume sales are not achievable in Scandinavia and the Benelux countries . |
| 3 | It is widely believed that elemental diet is effective in Crohn 's disease by achieving bowel rest . |
| 4 | It is widely believed that senior navy officials trying to live within increasingly stringent Treasury spending limits want to close Rosyth dockyard and the adjacent naval base , and centralise all naval refitting work at Devonport . |
| 5 | It is widely claimed that English speech tends towards a regular alternation between stronger and weaker , and tends to adjust stress levels to bring this about . |
| 6 | The risks involved are thus extremely high , and it is generally recognised that close management control of these companies by the venture capital funds in necessary , as compared with the more remote approach of investors on the Stock Exchange . |
| 7 | Apart from city states , e.g. Singapore , it is generally recognised that agricultural development must precede ( or at least match ) industrial development . |
| 8 | It is generally recognised that casual working is still important in certain industrial/occupational labour markets , particularly that of the hotels and catering industry , although the question of whether the casual status of their jobs is a source of disadvantage to the people who work in this fashion is one which has , as yet , scarcely been answered . |
| 9 | It is generally accepted that increasing lake acidification due to acid deposition has caused fish kills and stock depletion ( figure 4.14 ) . |
| 10 | 3 : It is generally accepted that nuclear electricity is everywhere more expensive than other forms of generation when the brushed-aside costs of decommissioning and dealing with its wastes are included , as ultimately they must . |
| 11 | However , it is generally agreed that industrial structure plays no general part in the urban-rural shift . |
| 12 | It is generally thought that homophobic prejudice kept Minton out of the Academy , Munnings especially having a dislike of both him and his art . |
| 13 | While certain proteins cause these effects to a less extent than others , it is generally considered that uncontrolled adsorption of protein on surfaces in large amounts is undesirable if the surface is to be biocompatible . |
| 14 | Although sequencing errors may occur as a result of either left or right sided lesions ( Kim , Royer , Bonstelle and Boller , 1980 ) it is generally held that left hemisphere damage more frequently leads to impairment . |
| 15 | This is not to say that profitable trading strategies have not been devised using this method . |
| 16 | This is not to say that general practice has solved all its problems , for an old contradiction remains unresolved . |
| 17 | That is not to say that reasonable protection from development should not be given to particular areas , for it is important to retain the character of the land and to ensure that all tastes are catered for : For instance , some people like to climb dangerous rocks in pouring rain . |
| 18 | But this is not to say that sexist language is not alive and well in English-speaking communities . |
| 19 | While reading commercial bar codes and displaying the relevant information is not a very practical proposition for the home user , that is not to say that do-it-yourself bar codes are totally impractical . |
| 20 | Which is not to say that popular humour in the States is particularly nice : in recent years there has been a great demand for in-your-face racist , ethnic and misogynist stuff , as typified on the respectable side by Jackie Mason and on the unholy by Andrew Dice Clay . |
| 21 | To say that a question should be answered fully is not to say that irrelevant matter should be introduced into the answer . |
| 22 | This is not to say that sexual assault carries no stigma , but the term is vaguer and the stigma arguably less . |
| 23 | This is not to say that MARID-type metasomatism is a necessary precursor to all kimberlite genesis — the MARID suite is of restricted occurrence overall — but some form of metasomatism is an inevitable accompaniment . |
| 24 | This is not to say that adequate recognition can not be achieved without understanding , but rather an appreciation of the processes involved in understanding may facilitate the design of more efficient recognition algorithms and systems . |
| 25 | That is not to say that day-to-day management can be accomplished by committee . |
| 26 | All this is not to deny that perfect contestability provides a benchmark , moreover an extremely important one as we shall see shortly . |
| 27 | This is not to argue that prior activation of one hemisphere can not introduce a bias towards the opposite ear ( Nachson , 1973 ; Morais and Landercy , 1977 ) but it does suggest that the effect of activation may be to engage the processing mechanisms of a particular hemisphere rather than upset a hemispheric balance of attention . |
| 28 | The purpose of bailment and sale is different because , in the case of an ordinary contract of hire , it is not intended that general property in the goods will pass to the bailor/hirer . |
| 29 | All this is not to suggest that political advantage has not had and does not have any effect on the conduct of macro policy , but rather that the evidence and theory presented is consistent with its having a small rather than dominating impact . |
| 30 | The National Trust is currently undertaking a structural survey which will reveal the full scale of the damage , but it is already known that extensive harm has been done to the brickwork , windows and terrace . |