Example sentences of "[adj] [is] that [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is becoming increasingly clear is that parents need practical support ( adequate housing , income , employment , educational , health and social welfare services ) , psychological and emotional support ( interpersonal within the family and the community ) and a network of supportive services . |
| 2 | However historically authentic ( or not ) this account may be , what is clear is that Hungarians adhered to it for a thousand years after their arrival in the Danubian plain at the beginning of the tenth century . |
| 3 | The upshot of all this is that families encourage young women to get as much education as possible — men can make a reasonable living without it , but women can not — and women are more advanced in the shift away from Gullah . |
| 4 | The result of this is that males have no idea as to whether or not they are the father of the offspring they raise . |
| 5 | The alternative vision is the one that I subscribe to , and along with me , most historians in this country and in America , and indeed increasingly erm a young generation of German historians , and this is that things began to go wrong well before nineteen fourteen , and that the Germans in fact deliberately started the First World War as the Treaty of Versailles said they did , that nineteen eighteen was not therefore the beginning of the evil , but merely a hiccup in erm a German attempt to conquer Europe , erm as it were , a play with two acts , the first act being nineteen fourteen to eighteen , and then the second act being nineteen thirty-nine to forty-five , two attempts to dominate the continent of Europe by military force . |
| 6 | that the only kind of learning worth seriously measuring is that which can be evaluated by making a mark on a card for subsequent ingestion by a machine ( An awful corollary to this is that judgments made by human beings must be given less weight than electronically certified facts . ) |
| 7 | The principle we can distil from this is that thoughts precede actions . |
| 8 | The underlying reason for this is that statutes do not really have ‘ corners ’ in the neat way postulated by theory . |
| 9 | The upshot of all this is that takeovers involve a significant degree of risk for offerors . |
| 10 | Among the reasons for this is that girls seem to volunteer more readily for singing and the recruitment of boys is not given priority . |
| 11 | The implication of this is that dividends do not carry significant new information , merely a confirmation of present conditions which are already known from other sources of information . |
| 12 | The significance of all this is that Utah had already convinced themselves that test-tube fusion could be an economic bonanza of unimaginable magnitude , and the first shots in the skirmish for priority had already been fired in February with the accusations that Jones had pirated the Utah chemists ' work . |
| 13 | What is meant by this is that people begin to come to terms with what has happened . |
| 14 | An extension of this is that people do not like being insulted . |
| 15 | Again , we see , that one of the very important truths that comes out of this is that people matter to God . |
| 16 | One problem with this is that comparisons have a tendency to set up one group covertly as the norm ; in the case of sex , it is men who are the norm . |
| 17 | One reason is that its rag-bag of products is hard to evaluate ; another is that Hanson appears to have a poor image on community and environmental responsibility . |
| 18 | What is even more amazing is that Jesus does not meet the centurion either . |
| 19 | The second is that Yorkshire finished 1989 four points from the bottom with a one-day record almost as poor ; it seems there has been no improvement , nor is one in sight . |
| 20 | The second is that drivers like to retain at least one common link with those fans who do n't have private jets , Boss jeans , impossibly lithe blondes etc . |
| 21 | ‘ What 's lucky is that Harry had the sense to take you with him . |
| 22 | ‘ I also quite like Johnson Fry 's Election Protection BES and Capital Ventures Election Hedge , but my reservation with these is that contracts remain unsigned . ’ |
| 23 | One of these is that stocks have been only modestly run down compared with previous recessions ; another is the boost to government spending from the Gulf war . |
| 24 | The irony of it all is that Jim does not eat fish . |
| 25 | The most damning fact of all is that Seb had been drinking . |
| 26 | The outcome of it all is that Wainwright heads the points table with 55 and is followed by Karen Cross with 48 . |
| 27 | There was one who told his wife , ‘ The reason I 'm late is that Harry died at the third hole , so we had to go all the way round the other fifteen holes on the course , dragging Harry . ’ |
| 28 | What is important is that Jesus saw that blind obedience to the letter of the law was stopping a man from being healed . |
| 29 | More important is that executives have learned to act more effectively without taking the personality route . |
| 30 | What is important is that Hepzibah 's got to leave Druid 's Bottom . |