Example sentences of "is that [pron] have [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 A problem with diagnosing lipid disorders is that everyone has been obsessed with examining fasting specimens , a requirement which presents two obstacles for diabetics .
2 is that we 've been involved in health strategy for the past over five years .
3 And as you 've seen with previous closures of our homes , the last three , is that we 've been able to utilize some of those resources to provide that shift in policy which has been very successful , and has , er , a process that we 've got has allayed people 's fears who 've been used for those residential home agreements .
4 The optimistic reading is that we have been successful , in that the number of men convicted of rape has increased over the last decade by 39 per cent in the case of rape , 2 per cent in the case of sexual assault , and 55 per cent in the case of incest .
5 What we have been successful at and particularly important in point of view is that we have been successful in keeping Whitchurch within the rural development areas , and , and retaining the status of the available which that gives .
6 Indeed , we make an effort not to use the phrase for a number of reasons , one of which is that we have been unable to figure out what it means ’ .
7 Yeah but the fact it 's come out is that they 've been honest .
8 One important point is that they have been able to determine the temperature profile of the gas and this shows that , within the central 75 kiloparsecs , the temperature decreases as one goes towards the centre of the cluster .
9 A necessary condition of this is that there has been sufficient money to enable it to function ( barely true for instance in Zaire , and parts of Nigeria and Tanzania in the 1980s ) , and that civil strife has been contained , sometimes ruthlessly .
10 So the current position is that there 's been substantial progress er in Greater York , and I think its testimony to the willingness of the Greater York authorities to work together there that there 's been such a level of agreement I think probably er never before achieved in the Greater York area as to the direction that Greater York erm er should take .
11 As far at I could judge it , the general feeling among the present day staff is that there have been some gains to both the prisoners and the system , and some losses , but the gains have been bought dearly and slowly and the losses may be irreversible .
12 The , the thing is that I 've been concerned for some time when it 's finally helped , f f found for next month , because
13 But we both know , although I have n't said it , that the consequence of her unfaithfulness is that I have been able to take the high ground .
14 Perhaps the best that can be said of Mr Karimov 's treatment of dissidents is that it has been consistent .
15 If the campaign has been logical to the strategists , the public perception is that it has been awful .
16 One reason for this lack of information is that it has been difficult to obtain pure enzymes that are sufficiently active under in vitro conditions .
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