Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] is that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Does the case suggest that the worse the plight of the promisor ( for example , the bigger the penalty clause ) the greater the benefit to him and the more likely it is that performance of the contract will be held to be consideration ?
2 The more dense and multiplex the ties , the more likely it is that complexity will be maintained .
3 Hence , the smaller the amount of equity the more likely it is that debt holders may have to bear some part of any losses .
4 And the more unstable a relationship is , the less likely it is that contraception will be used .
5 The historian normally wants a longer perspective and the more time passes , the more likely it is that research will be concerned with change over time rather than with a ‘ snapshot ’ of 1991 .
6 One British observer has pointed out how curious it is that assessment of performance procedures has been developed ( by the APU ) without any reference to procedures for the improvement of performance .
7 The distinction is a very significant one , because all the great religions of the world have emphasized how important it is that religion and life are bound up together , that religion does not hive off into some remote corner unrelated to the real world ; all religions do bother about the secular in the first sense of the word — about how life is actually lived and what people are and do , and not just about what they say and believe .
8 How risible it is that art can not provide a better imitation of life , when we know that life itself is so illusory .
9 When she had finished she said to Piers , to hide her confusion , ‘ I — I always think how odd it is that turtle soup does n't taste of turtle . ’
10 Claiming that the ( Greek Cypriot ) majority does not accept these resolutions is plain absurd , given that it is that majority that initiated almost all of them .
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