Example sentences of "is [adv] [verb] that [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He adds , however , that to recognize the point is only to recognize that testing is what matters . |
| 2 | It is generally accepted that managers are motivated to pursue profits , whereas they are not greatly motivated to keep within a cost budget . |
| 3 | Although there is a claim that these vats were introduced by Charles Tennant Dunlop and Heinrich Buff of Giessen , it is generally accepted that Shanks was responsible for their development . |
| 4 | It is generally accepted that people are motivated by success and that it is often easier to work towards realistic short-term targets . |
| 5 | It is generally assumed that ASL is historically linked to the French Sign Language of the early 19th century , researchers seeing evidence of cognate signs in French Sign Language and ASL ( fig. 8.1 ) . |
| 6 | However , it is generally assumed that rug-weaving was brought into China , probably from Turkestan or Mongolia , some time before the reign of Emperor K'ang Hsi ( 1661–1722 ) , a noted patron of the arts who may well have encouraged its assimilation into Chinese artistic life . |
| 7 | It is generally stated that Vlasov was awarded the Order of Lenin in February 1941 and the Order of the Red Banner in January 1942 ; however , a photograph of summer 1942 clearly shows him wearing two badges of the latter , as here . |
| 8 | It is generally agreed that students/trainees are observed performing on many occasions over a period of time as a natural part of the learning process . |
| 9 | It is generally agreed that Haydn was the father of the string quartet , and he set the highest standards : the quartets of Beethoven and Schubert could hardly have been written without his brilliant examples of how it should be done . |
| 10 | True prevention is thus to ensure that women are immunised against diseases which can cause mental handicap in the foetus long before they plan to conceive . |
| 11 | It is usually said that repetition is used for emphasis . |
| 12 | It is also said that Moorcroft was shocked to find that his co-professor was wholly ignorant of all veterinary matters ; yet Moorcroft and Coleman had negotiated the terms of their joint appointment , and it is inconceivable that Moorcroft could have remained unaware of his future colleague 's lack of veterinary knowledge . |
| 13 | It is also said that girls are more verbally adept and can express complex concepts more readily than boys . |
| 14 | 14 It is also suggested that documents are lodged in public libraries . |
| 15 | However , it is also recommended that documents are lodged in District Council Planning Department Offices , and if relevant also in other District council venues ( if these are located in settlements different from the Planning Department offices ; and in Edinburgh also in the decentralised offices , two of which are now open , at West Hailes and Craigmillar . |
| 16 | It is now known that smokers are more likely to develop a cerebral thrombosis ( stroke ) than non smokers . |
| 17 | Even if access to data is restricted through the use of passwords when calling it up from the computer , it is often felt that data are not secure and confidentiality may be breached . |
| 18 | It is often assumed that winter is the most suitable time for training yet only 43% indicated that any time during winter would be suitable . |
| 19 | In this country , it is often assumed that teachers are a law unto themselves once they are inside the classroom and that it is their professional training and sense of professional responsibility that are the chief influences on their practice . |
| 20 | However , as explained , such problems are often symptoms of deeper organisational and management problems : ‘ It is often assumed that stress is caused by too much work or tasks that are too difficult , but it is more likely to be because staff do n't have a context for what they are doing . ’ |
| 21 | It is often assumed that Foucault is simply the philosopher of discontinuity , merely substituting it where previously there had been continuity ; but the discontinuous is emphasized only because so much stress is normally placed on the continuous . |
| 22 | Indeed , it is often assumed that women are the ‘ natural ’ carers , and that such work is n't quite suitable for a man . |
| 23 | For example , it is often assumed that multiculturalism is methodologically individualist , and reduces racism to an individual pathology of prejudice , whilst antiracism is radically holist and insists on the primacy of structural processes . |
| 24 | It is often said that alcohol is ‘ the only little pleasure that old people have ’ , which may be true to an extent , but if drinking becomes a problem then it is for the individuals to decide how much of a pleasure drinking is , and whether they want help to stop . |
| 25 | It is often said that delegation is the art of management . |
| 26 | It is often said that people are bored at school , and can not do well , because of the irrelevance of the curriculum to their own life and experience , or the life and experience they will have when they leave school . |
| 27 | Since class is generally defined by male socioeconomic status , it is often argued that women are more able to transcend class than men . |
| 28 | It is often argued that equities are more marketable as they are a better safeguard against inflation because they will reflect the rise in the nominal value of real assets during an inflationary period . |
| 29 | The argument is often heard that problems are not necessarily solved by throwing money at them ; how are they solved if you do n't ? |
| 30 | It is often claimed that hypertension is prevalent in diabetic subjects ( Christlieb , 1982 ) , although the evidence for such a statement is conflicting and by no means universally accepted . |