Example sentences of "is [adj] [verb] [that] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WITH the demand for golf courses vastly outweighing supply , it is refreshing to note that a number of courses have been given planning permission in the Durham and North Yorkshire area . |
| 2 | My Lords , if I may revert to the proposition that a person can not consent to the theft of property from himself , it is absurd to suppose that a company consents to the theft of its own property , merely because the thief is for most purposes of the company its directing mind . |
| 3 | Currently it is usual to find that a contract cleaning company may be used to look after the offices and toilets , but production areas are generally ‘ out of bounds ’ , because they are considered too sensitive . |
| 4 | It is usual to indicate that a consonant is syllabic by means of a small vertical mark , for example ‘ cattle ’ . |
| 5 | It is possible to specify that a production should not be a silent movie and the end result is therefore in English . |
| 6 | It is unrealistic to assume that a junior will confide in you unless you are prepared to confide in him or her . |
| 7 | Given the sheer volume of works created by people calling themselves artists in the United States during any two-year period , it is unrealistic to think that a museum exhibition devoted to two years of art can give a visitor a sense of the breadth of what is being produced . |
| 8 | At this point it is interesting to note that a number of Wordsworth 's opinions on colour and air of the lakeland landscape are very similar to Green 's . |
| 9 | It is interesting to note that a number of new users , rather than inject , snorted heroin as they previously had done with speed and coke until they saw a television programme on Hong Kong which ‘ instructed ’ them how to chase the dragon . |
| 10 | It is interesting to note that a Dellinger fade out is often followed by a magnetic field change around 48 hours later . |
| 11 | This can be extremely hazardous and it is dangerous to assume that a rug will necessarily be cheaper in the country of origin than it is in the West ; rugs on sale in the bazaars in Turkey , for example , are often just as expensive , if not more so , than they are in London or New York . |
| 12 | Without them , it is impossible to say that a country has a constitution in the current international sense of the word . |
| 13 | However , whilst it is impossible to guarantee that a business 's terms will be incorporated into all its contracts , if a business takes care to adopt proper contract formation procedures , it can maximise the chances of its terms being incorporated into its contracts , and therefore its chances of being able to rely on those terms should any dispute arise . |
| 14 | It is pointless to deny that a dictatorship can rest on popular support , or that under certain circumstances a majority of the people can be persuaded to support or endorse illiberal and anti-democratic policies . |
| 15 | When one notes that Jaguar 's pre-tax profits for the first half of 1989 had slumped to £1.4 million , it is easy to see that a company valuation of £1.6 billion might be considered rather high . |
| 16 | From a distance it is easy to believe that a child is counting when in fact he is only reciting a number sequence and touching or moving objects at random . |
| 17 | It is easy to assert that a child 's early experience is important , but considerably more difficult to substantiate . |
| 18 | It is sobering to reflect that a case could be made out for the judgment that the last extensive exercise of the English poetic sensibility was Wordsworth 's Prelude . ’ |
| 19 | It certainly is a good story but it is hard to believe that a designer as experienced as Tupolev would casually use such information without first carefully checking it out , particularly if one considers the history of the Russian aircraft industry which over the years has sprung many surprises upon the West and will doubtless do so again in the future . |
| 20 | It is hard to believe that a World Championship event , which will inevitably lack the close communion of teams , could cap this one . |
| 21 | It is hard to imagine that a term like ‘ daddy 's girls ’ can be applied with fairness , let alone exactitude . |
| 22 | It is reasonable to suppose that a sense of what is usual or unusual or noticeable in language is built up from a lifelong experience of linguistic use , so that we are able to affirm with reasonable confidence and without resort to a pocket calculator ( to take a simple case already mentioned ) that Hemingway favours short sentences . |
| 23 | It follows that it is reasonable to assume that a unit of goodness can exist in the mind of man to aid him in understanding the origin of his God , just as the scientific unit aids human thought directed towards physical activity . |
| 24 | Since it is implausible to suppose that a creature 's understanding of ‘ inside ’ is independent of its manipulative abilities , a kingfisher 's perceptual experience of containment would differ from a chimp 's . |
| 25 | It is implausible to imagine that a man , or a group , would refrain from winning an argument simply because a principle of statelessness excluded contact with external authority . |
| 26 | He comes from a reasonably conservative background and Mains is sure to insist that a lot of very basic work is done before the backline frills are attempted . |
| 27 | It is safe to assume that a guardian will be appointed in most cases and the rules state that the appointment should be made as soon as practicable after the commencement of proceedings ( FPCR , r10(1) ; FPR , r4.10(1) ) . |
| 28 | ‘ Moreover , it is important to realise that a commitment to animal welfare is consistent with striving to improve the overall condition of those individuals who have a welfare , both humans and other animals , even if this means decreasing the welfare of some . |
| 29 | It is important to remember that a government 's power can and normally does quite properly extend to people who do not accept its authority . |
| 30 | It is important to remember that a standing structure such as a church can be read in the same way as an archaeological section : features cutting into or overlying others can be used to construct relative dating relationships . |