Example sentences of "is [adv] [verb] that [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is widely believed that people become less productive as they get older . |
| 2 | This is the part where there is a surfaced footway or pavement but at present it is so overgrown that pedestrians have to walk on the road . |
| 3 | 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 … . |
| 4 | The first point is that it is generally recognized that ritual tends to increase , intensify and shift in focus at times of social crisis . |
| 5 | And since it is generally recognised that managers cost their companies at least three times their annual salary , the scope for cost-saving is enormous . |
| 6 | It is generally assumed that hypergastrinaemia predisposes to the development of gastric carcinoids through progressive hyperplastic changes of fundic endocrine cells . |
| 7 | It is generally agreed that objects appear smaller and heavier as they move upwards . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It is already known that Strauss worked to a system of keys associated with particular characters and situations , but Professor Gilliam identifies his primary concern in Elektra as ‘ establishing a sense of motivic continuity in the orchestral line ’ , thus lending extra point to Strauss 's description of Salome as ‘ a symphony in the medium of drama ’ . |
| 10 | Although it is clearly established that Nicholl served in the Grenadier Company , the wings are laced to the pattern of a Light Company . |
| 11 | It is also said that Jacqueline had begun writing to a young Glaswegian who really was in prison . |
| 12 | It is also said that Hinduism believes in an impersonal rather than a personal Deity . |
| 13 | It is also known that hepatocytes express a series of integrin and non-integrin receptors for a series of matrix constituents . |
| 14 | It is also claimed that males walk to the breeding pond , while females walk and hop . |
| 15 | When it is also remembered that Belorussia had the lowest literacy rate of all European Russia , the sluggish response of the denizens of the Roslavl' area comes as no surprise . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Evidence is now emerging that women have been detained in order to be raped and even impregnated , and that political and military leaders knew , but condoned it.One woman who can testify to the existence of rape camps and the suffering of women , is Francoise Hampson , senior lecturer at Essex University and an expert in the law of armed conflict . |
| 18 | It is often assumed that employers take advantage of the demand for positions where interesting work , pleasant conditions and a high degree of job satisfaction are reckoned to make up for low pay . |
| 19 | In a commercial or industrial setting it is often assumed that organisations try to maximise profits as their main goal . |
| 20 | It is often assumed that clients interfere with their ulcers between treatments to ensure the community nurse will revisit and meet their need for social contact . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It is often said that opposites attract , but this does n't usually work with horses ; most people are happier with an animal whose temperament is similar to their own . |
| 23 | It is often said that women have greater access to housing in the public sector than men , or that housing officials tend to be more sympathetic to women . |
| 24 | It is often said that children pick up and learn things much quicker than adults . |
| 25 | It is often said that children have their lives before them and to die before they have had a chance to develop their personalities and lives seems particularly cruel . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It is often said that Yugoslavia exports lower-quality products to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe than to the West . |
| 28 | Thus it is often argued that statutes punishing cruelty to animals can only be explained in that way . |
| 29 | It is often argued that television has contributed much to the trivialization of politics in general and to the nomination process in particular . |
| 30 | Indeed , the argument is often advanced that mergers bring benefits through reducing costs of production because of the attainment of economies of scale . |