Example sentences of "is [adj] [verb] that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is possible to argue that certain sections could , with advantage , have been expanded to stress the more chemical aspects of topics — eg the section of enzymes ‘ in reverse ’ ( why not refer to this as synthesis ? ) touches on an area of great value and which is increasingly used industrially . |
| 2 | It is possible to say that Christian beliefs are ‘ symbolically true ’ . |
| 3 | If it is possible to show that existential propositions are equivalent to denials of the validity of inferences of a certain kind , then instead of talking about existence we can confine ourselves to talking about the validity of inference . |
| 4 | Keith Flett is right to claim that Labour needs active grassroots supporters to defeat the Tories ( Letters , 24 April ) . |
| 5 | Although my hon. Friend is right to say that budget-holding practices have been outstandingly successful and are now very popular with most doctors — |
| 6 | Half the patients who require heart surgery are dealt with immediately , but the hon. Gentleman is right to say that some patients have to wait . |
| 7 | However , given current UK time costs , it is unrealistic to believe that many listeners will hear a given commercial many times . |
| 8 | It is interesting to see that some developments in reading instruction are stressing the need to help pupils cope with text organisational problems . |
| 9 | It is interesting to note that rectilinear structures are frequently found in one of two distinctive locations , often accompanied by marked functional variations . |
| 10 | It is interesting to note that other countries are now copying our know-how funds because they have been of such help to the former Soviet Union and other eastern European countries . |
| 11 | It is interesting to note that electric vehicles built in 1920 were still in use in the 1950s . |
| 12 | It is interesting to note that 300 years ago in a census to find the number of Conformists , Catholics and Nonconformists , that Hailing was given as " no Papists , no Nonconformists but 60 Conformists " . |
| 13 | The subjects were corn plants , and it is interesting to note that these plants have a natural variability in leaf area of nearly 10% , which can be increased by errors introduced by the measurement technique employed . |
| 14 | ( It is interesting to note that freshwater pearls were known to the Chinese by the beginning of the first millennium B.C. ) |
| 15 | It is interesting to note that some phonologists of the 1950s and 1960s felt it necessary to invent a ‘ phoneme ’ of juncture in order to be able to transcribe minimal pairs like ‘ grey tape ’ / ‘ great ape ’ unambiguously without having to refer to grammatical boundaries ; see for example Trager and Smith ( 1951 ) . |
| 16 | Although her views are still regarded as highly eccentric outside reactionary conservative and fascist circles , it is interesting to note that some historians now argue that secret societies like the IRA and the Mafia have indeed played a significant role in world events , and that the Illuminati conspiracy in the 1780s was truly a model for future revolutionary organization . |
| 17 | It is interesting to note that some Branches were expected to open from 10.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. without even having arrangements in place for Lunch-time Opening . |
| 18 | It is interesting to learn that nuclear scientists are now seeking the particles necessary to anti-matter and may have found some of them . |
| 19 | It is sad to see that conservation bodies seem to have halted their attempts to purchase the key Cairngorms estate of Mar Lodge . |
| 20 | It is easy to deduce that other systems do , too ; many targets are being hit again and again . |
| 21 | It is easy to assume that such skills will be picked up incidentally , as they will usually be by fully sighted children , who often copy what they see other children doing , especially if a teacher 's directions are unclear to them . |
| 22 | Of course TI is quick to note that these projections only take into account existing compilers . |
| 23 | At any given time the monitoring of caseloads is likely to show that some lawyers have capacity while others are overloaded . |
| 24 | So far as the early history of the emancipation process is concerned Field 's position is probably stronger than Zakharova 's , for although Nicholas I 's call for a militia gave rise to disturbances among the peasantry in 1855 , although almost all the memoranda which circulated in private during the Crimean War referred to the possibility of peasant risings , and although Alexander II alluded to the prospect of rural uprisings both in his speech to the Moscow gentry and in his comments on the papers submitted to him by Haxthausen , it is hard to prove that rural developments took pride of place among the reasons for setting reform in train . |
| 25 | The noble land-owners ' outlook was that of passive rentiers who made it a point of pride to be cheated by their bailiffs ; even if entail had not put technical difficulties in the way of raising capital it is hard to believe that Spanish aristocrats would have conceived of higher rents as a reward of investment . |
| 26 | Perhaps this is considered too expensive , but it is hard to believe that 240 doctors can be trained at no capital cost , even if there is head space at medical schools . |
| 27 | Strictly , then , it is hard to imagine that such organizations exist . |
| 28 | At the time of writing it is good to notice that local boys from ordinary homes in Portadown are still doing well . |
| 29 | Still , it is good to know that British boxers can now command as much money for fighting in London as they once would have received only when topping the bill in the United States . |
| 30 | Therefore , assuming that the supply of heroin remains strong , it is reasonable to predict that future levels of heroin use will continue to mirror any increases in unemployment or poverty , though a decline in social deprivation will not necessarily be accompanied by a drop in the prevalence of heroin use . |