Example sentences of "[is] [adj] that [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is little that farmers could , or can , do about these cultural changes which have come to broaden the horizons of so many rural people . |
| 2 | Although employees who decide not to move may be in breach of contract , there is little that employers can do . |
| 3 | Among smaller firms , it 's possible that Customs changes with respect to the single European market may accelerate the take-up of EDI . |
| 4 | It is understandable that leases of premises in shopping centres may contain restrictions on the opening hours of the premises either because of centralised heating and other services or because the main gates to the centre , or to the servicing facilities , are closed . |
| 5 | It is understandable that facts such as those in Bank of Montreal v. Stuart may seem to justify this stringent requirement , but less easy to understand why the facts of Shears and Sons Ltd. v. Jones , 128 L.T. 218 should have done so . |
| 6 | As we saw earlier , cylinders were individually made and carried no labels at that time , so it is understandable that mistakes occur nowadays when the only evidence is that of the recording itself . |
| 7 | Of course it is admirable that expectations are high and that women should be given greater autonomy ( and hope for more in the sexual area than their Victorian forebears ) . |
| 8 | The aim must be to make ferreting as uncomplicated as possible , but it is undeniable that complications can and do occur . |
| 9 | However , it is undeniable that contemporaries , operating with contemporary methods and criteria of accountancy , believed that it was inferior , though of course we can not tell how far the very justified horror of slavery or serfdom biased their calculations . |
| 10 | It is undeniable that consumers have the capacity to resist the blandishments of advertisers , as borne out by the failure of many products brought on to the market . |
| 11 | It is undeniable that animals intend to do things in the sense that it is often true of them that unless interfered with they will go on voluntarily to perform various actions . |
| 12 | Crêches can be expensive to run and it is possible that charges will be prohibitive , particularly if you are returning on a modest pay grade . |
| 13 | It is possible that others besides Carter were asked to write the piece . |
| 14 | Dom Grossard need not be correct ; certainly Pérignon perfected the art of producing starbright white wines , but it is possible that others succeeded before him — the fame of the white wines of Aÿ , for example , suggests this . |
| 15 | Some other Parkia species are dispersed by agoutis and it is possible that others may have been adapted to dispersal by large terrestrial herbivores that are now extinct . |
| 16 | However , legionellae suspended in aerosol at 65% relative humidity in laboratory conditions can survive for at least 2 h , so it is possible that legionellae are also robust in air in natural conditions . |
| 17 | These mobile pieces of DNA ( called transposons ) share many features in common with the genetic material of some viruses and it is possible that viruses have evolved from them . |
| 18 | It is possible that juries would prefer to convict of murder in such cases so as to register their abhorrence of the defendant 's activities in general . |
| 19 | It is possible that women are , on the whole , more receptive to acknowledging them , and will use them more readily . |
| 20 | It is possible that women will experience more occasions of loss and loneliness in extreme old age . |
| 21 | The data do not prove that the operation precedes the bowel dysfunction , and it is possible that women who are troubled by the symptoms of constipation are more likely to report gynaecological symptoms to their general practitioners . |
| 22 | It is possible that firms could agree to co-ordinate their actions in some way without explicit communication and discussion . |
| 23 | With a variety of adults exercising control of children during the school day including class teacher , teacher on playground duty and lunch time supervisors it is possible that patterns of repeated bullying are not picked up by adults . |
| 24 | It also appears that just as Belfast speakers can merge pairs like pack and peck , so it is possible that patterns of merger , or near-merger , of such pairs might have been observable in EModE . |
| 25 | It is possible that proposals for revisions to accounting standards on these subjects will be made in the future . |
| 26 | However , with a business operation the size of ours , ( we handle nearly 1m parcels every working day ) it is possible that things will occasionally go wrong . |
| 27 | However , with a business operation the size of ours , it is possible that things will sometimes go wrong . |
| 28 | It is possible that parents do convey to their children that they themselves do not judge and relate to people on the basis of their skin colour , but they should also tell the child that many people in the society do . |
| 29 | It is possible that variations in the colour and intensity of light reflected from these structures help to confuse predators as to the size and distance of the insect . |
| 30 | ‘ I suppose it is possible that squatters or other vagrants took possession of the house between the time of my uncle 's death and the sale of the property . |