Example sentences of "is [adv] [adj] that [noun] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the process of delivering National Curriculum history it is most important that pupils are introduced to a wide and varied range of historical resources , and it may be useful to offer some general advice on the resourcing of such units . |
| 2 | On all the evidence it is highly improbable that overvaluation was the dominant constraint ; particularly since import penetration occurred in a ratchet-like fashion . |
| 3 | It was not beyond the wit of any surgeon worthy of his calling or apothecary worthy of his phial to have been able to perform superficial embalming , and it is highly unlikely that assistance was asked for at the London end . |
| 4 | Gravity is so strong that space is bent round onto itself , making it rather like the surface of the earth . |
| 5 | Initially it appears as an act of balance , with vigorous debate between those who think that censorship is never worth it , and those for whom pornography is so dangerous that censorship is not too high a price at all . |
| 6 | ‘ America is so big that bands are n't surrounded by other bands trying to do the same thing . |
| 7 | The children 's charity , Barnardos , says that poverty in Britain is so bad that parents are going hungry so that the children can eat . |
| 8 | County Durham headteacher , Olwyn Gunn , a national executive member of the National Association of Schoolmasters and Union of Women Teachers , said : ‘ I really do n't know of any school where poverty is so bad that children are being treated like this . ’ |
| 9 | We have been given to understand that our forest of Chippenham around the place called ‘ Holloway ’ is so dense that malefactors are able to lie hid in those parts , and so travellers are threatened with frequent losses , and some incur peril of lives and goods there . |
| 10 | In reality , few farmers wear complete protection at the tank , and the operation is so messy that liquid is bound to get on the smallest area of exposed skin . |
| 11 | It could also be that the chain of distribution is so complicated that margins are pared to nothing . |
| 12 | The trouble with this way of dealing with the myth is that the myth is so attractive that people are not put off by the objection that it opens the door to scepticism about common meanings . |
| 13 | It is perhaps surprising that Dempsey is ranked among the greatest champions of all time when he was artificially protected from the challenge of black opponents . |
| 14 | As regards the market within the firm , it is obviously true that managers are frequently competitive by nature and hence will exert themselves in their quest for personal advancement within the organisational hierarchy . |
| 15 | Because it is patently obvious that Rollins is not bullshitting or manipulating . |
| 16 | In the first place , we can not say that the coins recovered from a site , whether by excavation or otherwise , represent a cross-section of coins in use on that site , even though it is generally true that coins are dropped in proportion to the amount of times they are handled or passed from hand to hand . |
| 17 | Efforts made by communist states to reduce inequalities vary , but it is generally true that bureaucrats are better off than those they rule . |
| 18 | It is generally true that people are in the greatest difficulties when the external world confirms their worst fears about themselves , and are at their happiest when it confirms their best fantasies . |
| 19 | It was clearly a site of some importance and it is not impossible that Rochester was the centre of one of the four Kentish kingdoms mentioned by Caesar , although by the time of Claudius ' invasion these kingdoms appear to have been united under one ruler . |
| 20 | In the centuries where children were treated like Oliver Twist and worse ; where children were beaten , half-starved , and put to work for sixteen hours a day and more ; it is not surprising that horses were treated no better . |
| 21 | Hitchcock was triumphantly able to achieve this sort of synthesis , but it is not surprising that Woolf was suspicious of the highbrow values that were being propagated around this time , and decided to challenge their deployment on this film . |
| 22 | In these circumstances it is not surprising that businessmen are hesitant to commit resources to forge new relationships in Eastern Europe . |
| 23 | With his attention diverted to the new studio , the honour of the Royal Command Performance and the crisis with his South African production , it is not surprising that Tiller was unaware that he was losing control of his Manchester school . |
| 24 | So it is not surprising that deconstruction was reduced to what could be easily handled and passed on . |
| 25 | Considering the number of changes associated with midlife , it is not surprising that stress is especially high at this period . |
| 26 | Given the marked difference between non-enrollers and migrants in regarding financial considerations , it is not surprising that non-enrollers were more likely to want more financial support and financial advice . |
| 27 | In nature , live food forms an important , if not the major part of all fish diets and it is not surprising that fish are keen to eat this particular kind of food . |
| 28 | It is not surprising that rationalizations are often made about why delegation is impossible when the true reason lies mainly within oneself . |
| 29 | In looking at training and education as parts of a whole process it is not surprising that TECs are encouraged to take responsibility not only for Youth Training Schemes and for Employment Training but also for non-advanced , work-related FE . |
| 30 | These are extreme cases , but there are many lesser cases that we hear of more frequently , so it is not surprising that house-buyers are asking : |