Example sentences of "is [adv] [verb] that [noun] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is widely assumed that Elders will not bother to hold on to any Scottish shares and its 23.7 per cent stake will be acquired and used as the springboard for a bid . |
| 2 | It is widely expected that bondholders will then be asked to convert some of their holdings into a new convertible preference share . |
| 3 | It is optimistically forecast that women will become freer from household burdens as a result of these technological innovations . |
| 4 | And it is generally felt that traffic will get heavier when the new A3 Petersfield bypass opens . |
| 5 | It is generally accepted that aims should be reviewed ( even if this does not result in alteration ) every four years . |
| 6 | It is also expected that IBM may want to shed up to a further 30,000 people from its 300,000-strong pay roll , with undisguised lay-offs clearly on the agenda . |
| 7 | It is now believed that babies can be sensitized to food even before they are born , because a few food molecules , from food the mother eats , can reach the baby in her womb ( see p 246 ) . |
| 8 | It is often assumed that techniques must be learned and practised before problems are mentioned . |
| 9 | Though it is often suggested that Metastrongylus may transmit some of the porcine viruses , and may enhance the effect of viruses already present in the lungs , the role of the worm is not conclusively proven . |
| 10 | Brook is equally determined that parents should have no say over their children 's exposure to permissive sex-education material . |
| 11 | It is well established that individuals may be pursued in tort even though the allegedly negligent act or piece of advice itself was in name performed by a company . |
| 12 | In the field of cancer therapy it is well known that irradiation can cause tumours and yet they can also be treated by radiation and many of the drugs used in chemotherapy for tumours can also cause tumours . |
| 13 | It is well known that things can happen in the mind that can not happen elsewhere . |
| 14 | It is well known that heat can be used to kill malignant cells but this approach can not normally be used where the tumour cells are deeply seated in the body , as can be the case in bone tumours . |
| 15 | While it is well known that machair may extend as much as 2 km inland in South Uist , less well known is the altitude to which blown shell sand exerts an ecological influence : the dunes at Luskentyre Banks ( NG 0699 ) are up to 35 m high , while the presence of large amounts of wind-blown shell fragments is evident from the presence of charophytes in lochs on Tairaval ( NB 1135 ) ( Angus , unpublished NCC report ) and at Mangersta ( NB 0131 ) ( Biagi et al 1985 ) , both sites being more than 50 m above sea level . |
| 16 | It is particularly fitting that Underwood should have chosen to step down in a year when the president of the Rugby Football Union is Peter Yarranton , himself a former England player and RAF pilot , who will be at today 's game . |
| 17 | Whilst Britain is far from the centrally imposed curriculum found in some other countries , government is increasingly insisting that schools must reflect certain key areas of experience for all pupils , and in particular those concerned with the world of work ( sic ) , with science and technology , and with economic awareness . |
| 18 | It is sometimes thought that rigorism can take adequate account of what seems troubling here by recognizing that if we ask too much of ourselves we damage our power to do good by becoming worn out or embittered . |