Example sentences of "is [adv] [adv] [verb] [that] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is so well known that women who smoke risk giving birth to underweight babies that the labels on cigarette packets in America caution that ‘ smoking may complicate pregnancy . ’ |
| 2 | Polo parks ( one was constructed recently at Châteaux Giscours ) , marble bottling halls ( Michel Delon 's at Léoville-Lascases is so highly polished that workers have been issued with special boots ) , Versailles-style formal gardens with sunken cellars provide the spectacular icing on the cake of wealth accumulated by the leading châteaux over the last decade by the simple expedient of charging much more for their wines than it costs to make them . |
| 3 | The great endeavour which Peter Scott and a small group of inspired people began in 1961 may be said to have only just started to have the worldwide impact which will help mankind to learn once again to develop in full harmony with the natural world , but it is already indelibly clear that Peter 's influence and determination has been crucial in creating a force that will not be denied its place of importance on a planet which , in the foreseeable future , may be required to support a human population of double its present size . |
| 4 | It is already widely acknowledged that Germany has been able to augment her political weight , especially in European affairs , by pursuing her interests under the European banner . |
| 5 | The list of observed bands ( Table 5.12 ) shows that all the IR bands observed coincide with Raman bands ( within 20 cm -1 , which is close enough considering that IR and Raman spectra are of different phases ) , and the number of Raman bands is indeed nine . |
| 6 | Although it is still popularly assumed that men are more prone to fall prey to the ravages of ‘ burnout ’ due to overwork and unhealthy lifestyle , all the evidence now points to women , especially aged between 35 and 50 , as today 's prime targets of stress . |
| 7 | It is also generally believed that people with cancer should not be massaged because cancer cells may start to spread to the rest of the body via the lymphatic system . |
| 8 | It is also well recognized that overdoses are often associated with threatened or actual disruption of a marital relationship , or a relationship with a boyfriend or girlfriend . |
| 9 | It is also well known that languages like Japanese and Tagalog have topic markers distinct from case markers . |
| 10 | The EC Commission is also now arguing that approximation rather than total harmonization may well suffice . |
| 11 | It is also now doubted that Pluto is really a planet at all , although , ironically , astronomers believe they have discovered a ‘ tenth planet ’ named Planet X. In addition some scientists believe the Sun , like many other stars in the galaxy , may be part of a binary system and have a twin . |
| 12 | And it is now equally clear that Mrs Thatcher 's response to this ultimatum was similarly direct . |
| 13 | It is now generally accepted that Jesus 's mother was the sister of Elizabeth , the mother of John . |
| 14 | It is now generally accepted that FAP is fully penetrant ( polyps are present ) if the bowel is examined endoscopically . |
| 15 | Origin of Wings and Flight — It is now generally accepted that wings arose , perhaps in the early Devonian , as lateral expansions of the thoracic terga ( Hamilton , 197 z ) . |
| 16 | It is now generally accepted that Frolik was a plant designed to waste MI5 's resources while important spies remained undetected and to sow seeds of distrust between MI5 and the CIA . |
| 17 | It is now generally accepted that words prefixed by pett or pit ( similar to the Welsh and Cornish peth for ‘ thing ’ or ‘ piece ’ ) are of Pictish origin , as in places such as Pitlochry ( ‘ stony share ’ ) and Pittenweem ( ‘ share of the cave ’ ) . |
| 18 | It is now generally acknowledged that Helicobacter pylori infection is the major cause of antral gastritis . |
| 19 | It is now generally appreciated that Warner Bros had been particularly badly hit by the depression , largely because of the furious rate at which they had acquired movie-houses in the 1920s . |
| 20 | It is now well established that diabetics are prone to early atherosclerosis ( Epstein et al , 1965 Pirart , 1978 ; Kannel & McGee , 1979 ) which appears no different from that in non-diabetics ( Robertson & Strong , 1968 ) . |
| 21 | It is now widely accepted that H pylori is one of the most important factors in the pathogenesis of duodenal ulcer disease . |
| 22 | It is now widely acknowledged that Keynes accepted the classical theory of the demand for labour in the form of marginal productivity theory . |
| 23 | In the 1980s it has been acknowledged that the importance of formal ( tripartite ) arrangements at ‘ peak ’ levels has been reduced — indeed it is now often suggested that Britain was always less ‘ corporatist ’ in these terms than countries such as the Federal Republic of Germany , Austria and Sweden . |
| 24 | It is fairly well known that Martin bought the Swedish Levin Guitar factory in the 1970s and that Levin had ceased trading by the end of that decade . |
| 25 | VIA also has to pay heavily to use the tracks and it is almost universally agreed that CP in particular has spent the last 12 years over-charging and trying to find ways of clearing the passenger trains from the path of its lucrative freights . |
| 26 | While the earliest sources give no clue to the date of Molla Fenari 's appointment to the Muftilik but simply state that he was Mufti , later Turkish tradition has asserted that the Muftilik was created in the time of Murad II ; and as it is almost universally held that Molla Fenari was the first Mufti , his appointment , if the tradition is to be believed , must have occurred after 824/1421 , the year of Murad II 's accession . |
| 27 | From that point onwards , it is hard even to hope that Mr Wroe gets off with a ‘ not proven ’ . |
| 28 | It is generally accepted , for example , that the Duzme Mustafa who opposed both Mehmed I and Murad II was executed in 825/1422 , though there is , admittedly , a story that he made good his escape to Kefe ; and it is likewise generally held that Ibrahim Pasa held the office of Grand Vezir uninterruptedly from his appointment in 824/1421 ( ? ) until his death in 832/1429 . |
| 29 | Recent outbreaks of salmonella have declined to sharply , according to latest Government statistics , but experts have warned that it is too soon to conclude that salmonella is under control . |
| 30 | The great Ewan MacColl wrote the hill walker 's anthem , The Manchester Rambler , as a tribute to those who took part in the Great Trespass on Kinder Scout in 1932 and it is therefore particularly fitting that Fay Godwin should have chosen another of his poems to end her book Our Forbidden Land . |