Example sentences of "is a [noun sg] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a discovery that changing concepts is a political activity : that it is not value-free , but is tied to the adoption of a particular interpretation of the world . |
| 2 | It is a warning that any science which claims to be authoritative has the potential for being used as a discourse of domination . |
| 3 | It is a myth that such relationships are best fostered over " heavy " business lunches . |
| 4 | So , it is a myth that conversational discourse is inevitably symmetrical . |
| 5 | It is a myth that conversational turns and sentence endings invariably coincide . |
| 6 | Mr Gordon accused GFP of being ‘ fundamentalists ’ about roads and said : ‘ It is a myth that other cities are spending nothing on roads . |
| 7 | It is a pity that New Scientist has give a new lease of life to the old story of 100 000 meteorites falling in a swarm in Poland ( 17 March , p 711 ) . |
| 8 | It is a pity that other royals can not behave like her , particularly during the personal crises in their lives . |
| 9 | At a time when nursing and health care is subject to much change , both professionally and politically determined , it is a pity that these elections appear to have been organised with little concern for the democratic process . |
| 10 | It is a pity that this book contains only half ( 11 ) of the papers presented at the symposium , the rest having appeared in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society , apparently for logistic rather than logical reasons . |
| 11 | The authors refer to the carbon steels as ‘ equivalent modern wires ’ That equivalence presumably was established to Rose 's satisfaction during the many years of his research on original strings before marketing his ‘ English Iron ’ It is a pity that this research has not been published . |
| 12 | It is a pity that Scottish students can not so easily access national qualifications from other member states in the European Community ’ . |
| 13 | Differences among accents of English have been mentioned several times in the course , and this is a subject that many students of English find interesting and wish to know more about . |
| 14 | Maths is a subject that many people find difficult . |
| 15 | It is a trick that many groups , including Mr Arnault 's , have yet to master . |
| 16 | Because the generation of a clone library is essentially a random sampling of intervals from the genome , even in libraries of high coverage there is a probability that some parts of the genome may not be cloned . |
| 17 | With the new set-aside agricultural policies , there is a possibility that cultivated parks can be put back to pasture . |
| 18 | In extreme circumstances when a situation escalates to a position where the client(s) can not be controlled by physical restraint , staff members should be prepared to vacate the room , even if there is a possibility that extensive damage may result . |
| 19 | There is a possibility that rectal dialysis in patients with diarrhoea may reflect exchanges of fluid within the bag with faecal water in the rectum of these patients . |
| 20 | ‘ Unless there is some event , some circumstance , some miracle that I can not see , then I repeat there is a possibility that that plant will cease to exist . ’ |
| 21 | There is a possibility that transient UOS relaxations may be unusually easy to trigger in some subjects and so predispose them to oesophagopharyngeal reflux . |
| 22 | The distinction between capital and maintenance schemes can sometimes amount to little more than an administrative technicality , and as grants for capital schemes are reduced , there is a possibility that old-style capital works will be slipped by under the banner of maintenance . |
| 23 | ‘ There is a possibility that this chap will move to another university next year , but for the time being I 've had to look for a way to take the heat off . |
| 24 | The morphology of the alveolar clivus supports this alternative , in which case Graecopithecus can be interpreted as a fossil hominine , but there is a possibility that this morphology represents an ancestral great ape character which was primitively retained in Graecopithecus and the hominines ( and was independently further modified to produce the more derived orang-utan condition ) . |
| 25 | The present geological and palaeoecological evidence suggests that there is a possibility that some taxa with northern distributions today may have survived the entire last glaciation in parts of the Outer Hebrides ( cf. |
| 26 | ‘ There is a possibility that some information could be lost to us forever — but at the moment we do n't really know . |
| 27 | It is a sign that ordinary men and women at the workface of wealth-creation are appalled at the notion of a return to state intervention . |
| 28 | There is a sign that big businesses on either large scale or multiple units are moving into this market , thus leading to a need for even closer monitoring in view of the vulnerability of many residents . |
| 29 | Ceasing to pay for a solicitor 's representative to attend court with a barrister in the great majority of legal aid cases ; [ at the moment it is a requirement that all barristers are accompanied in court by a representative of the instructing solicitor . ] |
| 30 | Erm there is a requirement that all trainees and new starters within the group , who are having training reviews undertaken , will maintain a training file . |