Example sentences of "is that the [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is interesting is that the most effective child rearing practices ( as far as these things are measurable ) appear to represent a ‘ golden mean ’ between the extremes suggested by successive fashions . |
| 2 | Finding reasons , or excuses , for this unflattering view of the building surveyor 's contribution to his profession during a period of unprecedented post-war reconstruction and technological innovation is not a productive exercise , but what is obvious is that the most damning indictment is the lack of identifiable discipline . |
| 3 | If there is one overriding message that has been reinforced by the experience so far it is that the most productive approach is one that flows from an attitude of , and a commitment to , continuous improvement . |
| 4 | The good news is that the most common infestation , by the woodworm — or anobium punctatum or furniture beetle , call it what you will — can be treated , so long as it has not gone too far into the timbers , at a cost of a few hundred pounds . |
| 5 | It is a diagnosis whose burden is that the supposedly mistaken analysis , of a kind which has persisted through centuries , is owed not to good reason but to a kind of desire . |
| 6 | The result is that the publicly available information resource that might be of relevance to strategic decision making presents an extremely confusing picture to the executive decision maker . |
| 7 | The only problem is that the terminally ill patient has in effect lost his autonomy , and it does n't work for him , and that 's what the bill is all about . |
| 8 | The overall effect is that the morally indefensible opportunist appears as a very human figure , a man who would have liked to have had his cake and eaten it and who , forced to make choices , alternates between self-congratulation and a sense of self-betrayal . |
| 9 | The crucial point is that the very potent symbol of Einstein was not a representation of the theory of relativity . |
| 10 | All I would say to you is that the very small primary schools I not only have to doubt the financial viability , but I personally sometimes would doubt that the National Curriculum can be delivered to a school where you 've got an age range between five and eleven and you 've only got thirty or forty children , and that is a personal point of view , which I have , erm having seen many of our schools , and I believe that the problems that some of our large urban schools have , with thirty to a class packed in , is also something we should address and give careful thought to when we are resourcing education . |
| 11 | The real trouble is that the more restricted field causes problems inasmuch as the binoculars have to be really steadily held . |
| 12 | What we find is that the virtually unadapted fabliau of this kind , a version of the world of production , religion and sexual relationships ( which do not in this case imply reproduction ) is a literary genre that , allowed to follow its own logic to the very end , shames the active characters within the tale , which in this case includes the feigned narrator . |
| 13 | Of particular concern to the government is that the once guaranteed divider of Spain 's workers — Stalinism and the cold war — is no longer of any relevance . |