Example sentences of "[is] [adj] [verb] that " 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 | It is vain to think that more of the load will be shouldered by voluntary effort . |
| 3 | Grandfather used to say ‘ the day is a cock 's stride longer at Old Newerday ’ ( 12th January ) , but in the first week of the new year there is little to show that the sun is creeping marginally higher each day . |
| 4 | There is little to suggest that this view changed , at least until the sterling crisis of 1947 . |
| 5 | Many may have felt betrayed , but there is little to suggest that MacDonald was any the less of a socialist than others , nor is there hard evidence to suggest that he schemed to bring about the collapse of the Labour government . |
| 6 | In areas such as Cheltenham , Hereford and Eastbourne there is little to suggest that anything new has happened to enable them to translate this into general election support . |
| 7 | However , there is little to suggest that this occurred . |
| 8 | Although it might have been hoped that local and central government would redirect main programmes to the benefit of the cities , there is little to suggest that this occurred . |
| 9 | Moreover , there is little to suggest that public-sector investment has been successful in encouraging equivalent private spending . |
| 10 | At first sight there is little to suggest that Michell has found anything other than chance connections . |
| 11 | Despite the evidence of solidarity there is little to suggest that this culture , even though it is against the formal organizational structure , is one that produces active protest against the conditions of the work enterprise . |
| 12 | And there is little to suggest that it will improve when China takes over . |
| 13 | Although much of their business was conducted in Anglo-Norman ( which developed a literature of its own ) there is little to suggest that ‘ English ’ magnates were ignorant of the best written French . |
| 14 | Even now cases of crossed aphasia in right handers are likely to be reported in the literature on account of their rarity ( e.g. Brown and Wilson , 1973 ; Zangwill , 1979 ; Wechsler , 1976 ; April and Han , 1980 ) although there is little to suggest that there is any qualitative difference between the aphasias produced by left and right sided lesions ( Carr , Jacobson and Boller , 1981 ) . |
| 15 | Equally there is little to suggest that past human groups were any less exploitative of their environment — or any less spendthrift in their consumption of its resources — than we are today . |
| 16 | It is difficult to know how far they were a significant deterrent to claiming relief , but over the long term there is little to suggest that any parish maintained the lowering of its poor rate which sometimes accompanied the initial operation of a workhouse . |
| 17 | Whatever personal suffering the laws caused — and there is no doubt they caused a great deal — there is little to suggest that the development of the eighteenth-century economy was frustrated by an unusual level of institutionally produced labour immobility . |
| 18 | There is little to indicate that environmental and/or property improvements actually create jobs , boost output or encourage investment . |
| 19 | The work has been quite hard , actually little short of the 24 hours ' teaching a week which I originally feared we might have to teach , but it 's a pity not to offer the course as we prepared it in Peking , complete with extra lectures , as there seems to be a great demand for anything we teach , which is understandable considering that it 's a chance of a lifetime for some of the teachers ; in fact , some have never spoken to a foreigner in their lives before ! |
| 20 | Although MAS will obviously be seeking to create an auction , it is normal to state that the vendors are not motivated purely by financial concerns but give great importance to other factors such as finding the right buyer , etc . |
| 21 | And er and although it nobody could ever say that the union was politically motivated er it it 's strange to relate that at union meeting when the general strike started and we of course we were n't in the T U C we were too small anyway , although I know that there 's been unions with twenty eight members in the T U C now . |
| 22 | But it 's strange to think that the day 's not so far away when players like Robert Cray , Bonnie Raitt and Jimmie Vaughan , for so long representatives of the new American blues generation , will themselves be looked on as the elders of the blues . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's strange to think that pile of tapes is all that 's left of Nicola 's life , is n't it ? ’ |
| 24 | The second thing to note is that to say that someone who says ‘ I hope ’ — for example , ‘ I hope you 'll come ’ — is simply expressing his mental state is to ignore the role of such utterances in human intercourse . |
| 25 | One of the things I I I found it very difficult to start with I must admit is that to prejudge that people would or would not go in . |
| 26 | These examples demonstrate that it is absurd to say that the Cox Report does not advocate the teaching of grammar . |
| 27 | But it is absurd to suppose that Lewis had nothing to gain from Minto 's company , or that all thEir time was spent discussing domestic trivia ( much as she and Lewis both enjoyed such discussions ) . |
| 28 | But it is absurd to suppose that every power which is conferred on the political head of a department must be exercised by him and him alone . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Yet the central point is that it is absurd to assume that any woman is less competent to direct her life than any man she marries . |