Example sentences of "is [adv] [verb] that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is widely assumed that different ICUs can be compared by the ratio of actual mortality to that predicted by the APACHE score . |
| 2 | It is widely accepted that vast amounts of police time are wasted by calling constables unnecessarily as court witnesses but the problem has so far proved intractable . |
| 3 | It is widely accepted that new members of the research community deserve careful initiation , socialisation and accreditation . |
| 4 | In particular , it is widely recognised that behavioural methods often result in relatively rigid language patterns , and that subsequent generalisation beyond training sessions and the spontaneous combination of taught elements into novel combinations continue to be problematic . |
| 5 | It is widely recognised that agricultural resources produce far more than a supply of raw foodstuffs . |
| 6 | At the European level it is widely believed that common standards will allow an expanded internal market to be developed and thus facilitate the economies of scale considered necessary for effective competition against foreign manufacturers . |
| 7 | Although it is widely agreed that successful innovations need to couple R&D , manufacturing , and marketing activities to ensure that new products can be manufactured at reasonable cost and are attractive to consumers , it is not completely obvious that this means that all three activities always need to be conducted under the same roof . |
| 8 | However , it is generally recognised that economic considerations are undoubtedly important in shaping the changes which have occurred within existing structures over the course of time since collective bargaining itself is an evolving social institution . |
| 9 | In 1912 Edison introduced the compatible ‘ Blue Amberol ’ records made of an even tougher plastic ; and it is generally accepted that Blue Amberols had a better , higher fidelity performance than any other medium before the First World War . |
| 10 | It is generally accepted that large numbers of people evaded the attention of the enumerators on that occasion and that if allowance is made for under-recording the total should be raised to about 9·2 millions . |
| 11 | It is generally assumed that international forces have a great influence on the UK so that it is the international economy which determines the character of the crossroads now facing the UK . |
| 12 | It is generally agreed that retail investors need a far higher level of supervision because of their lack of knowledge and because of the severe consequences of loss . |
| 13 | This is not to say that economic relationships always constitute the main bases of inequality in a society . |
| 14 | This is not to say that economic imperatives play no part in penal developments . |
| 15 | Yet this is not to say that lexical decisions should always be left open until the end of the utterance , as in HARPY . |
| 16 | This is not to say that nationalized industries might not be capable of earning enough revenues to pay that debt ( far from it ) but that the Government will not need a published balance sheet to assess financial viability . |
| 17 | This is not to say that financial reports should be restricted to financial measures , of course , only that in practice they are . |
| 18 | This is not to say that other members did not provide leadership . |
| 19 | This is not to say that other methods would not work , but it is unwise to use non-standard methods for recovery from a fully developed spin , even if they appear to work better . |
| 20 | This is not to say that other injections and leakages are less significant , only that they are less easy for governments to control . |
| 21 | This is not to say that middle-class girls do n't get pregnant , they do , but they are more likely to be encouraged to use contraception , and also take the option of an abortion more than working-class girls . |
| 22 | That is not to say that British citizens in the legal sense have no rights , only that they are not part of the express legal concept of citizenship . |
| 23 | That is not to say that sexual partners of people with recurrent candidal infection should not be sought and examined — many cases of treatment-resistant thrush are due to repeated reinfection by an asymptomatic carrier . |
| 24 | This is not to say that mass markets have disintegrated or that economies of scale are irrelevant to competitive performance . |
| 25 | This is not to say that complementary therapies act only at the psychological level . |
| 26 | In S/Z Barthes is not suggesting that literary texts implicitly refer to some transcendent model : literary texts can only cross-refer to each other . |
| 27 | This is not to deny that individual teachers may be highly effective in making their own way by an intuitive sense of direction . |
| 28 | This is not to deny that random changes are not automatically beneficial , but the direction towards improvement comes from natural selection ; i.e. from genetic changes that were an aid to survival . |
| 29 | This is not to deny that local inspectors are skilled at informal observation , or able to give advice to teachers in particular areas of the curriculum . |
| 30 | However , this is not to deny that pornographic videos may well have a damaging effect . |