Example sentences of "is [adv] [verb] that [noun] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The influence of national political considerations on local electoral behaviour is so marked that Newton considers that ‘ the term ‘ local election ’ is something of a misnomer … . |
| 2 | The first point is that it is generally recognized that ritual tends to increase , intensify and shift in focus at times of social crisis . |
| 3 | It is generally assumed that hypergastrinaemia predisposes to the development of gastric carcinoids through progressive hyperplastic changes of fundic endocrine cells . |
| 4 | It is generally agreed that Japan possesses many of the institutional characteristics of other capitalist societies , but these institutions do not produce the same degree of impersonal alienation because subordinates are regularly consulted and authority is ‘ soft ’ and legitimate . |
| 5 | It is also said that Hinduism believes in an impersonal rather than a personal Deity . |
| 6 | Some pessimists have calculated that enormous exercise workouts would be needed in order to achieve even modest weight loss , but it is now recognized that exercise does effectively help to burn up calories by speeding up the body 's metabolic rate for some time afterwards . |
| 7 | For example , it is often said that testing assumes that intelligence can be quantified by a single number , as in a much-praised recent book , The Mismeasure of Man , by a palaeontologist , Stephen Jay Gould . |
| 8 | We go further , and it is often said that God has revealed his Spirit as much in Buddhism and Hinduism as in Christianity ; indeed , as much in atheism as in theism . |
| 9 | It is often said that Yugoslavia exports lower-quality products to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe than to the West . |
| 10 | It is often argued that television has contributed much to the trivialization of politics in general and to the nomination process in particular . |
| 11 | Although it is often claimed that exercise has a beneficial psychological effect in its own right , the evidence for this is scanty and it is always difficult to separate the specific effect of exercise from the moral support and social contact which usually goes with it . |
| 12 | While it is well recognised that London has its own distinctive speech , characterised by features of accent and grammar in particular , there are surprisingly few " dialect " studies of London ( in contrast with , for example , areas more traditionally thought of as using " dialect " , such as Lancashire or Norfolk ) . |
| 13 | It is well known that dissatisfaction occurs when actuality falls short of expectation . |
| 14 | It is sometimes claimed that stylometry enables the scholar to identify the fingerprint of an author , a stylistic criterion , or set of criteria , which can be used to determine with certainty questions of disputed authorship . |
| 15 | It is readily acknowledged that QIP needs management support if it is to succeed . |
| 16 | It is commonly argued that nationalization takes place in order to socialize the losses of sectors of capital where capitalist relations have broken down ( e.g. Fine and O'Donnell 1981 ) or to resolve an immediate crisis in a sector of the economy , as with the creation of the Italian state holding company IRI by Mussolini in response to the impending collapse of the banking system ( Maraffi 1980 ) . |
| 17 | Moreover , this distinctive structural location has been remarkably resilient to change and it is commonly argued that schooling plays a big part in the reproduction over time of the position of black people in British society . |