Example sentences of "[be] [adj] that [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ It is scandalous that only a tiny fraction of cars in the UK have catalysts fitted . |
| 32 | But it is important that here the yokes are inverted : Mariana and the ties with Spain she represents have been transformed , translated into Mexican , into the complexities of the mestizo Mexican present . |
| 33 | It is evident that today the expertise ( knowledge + expertise ) and reasoning strategies used by highly skilled maintenance engineers are the most critical areas of the problem-solving process . |
| 34 | It is plain that only a small community closely knit by ties of kinship , common sentiment , and belief , and placed in a stable environment , could live successfully by such a regime of unofficial rules . |
| 35 | If we are tackling a very big warren it is probable that only the most likely of the bolt-holes will have been fitted with purse nets , simply because insufficient nets are available . |
| 36 | It is noteworthy that neither the article nor the constitution uses the expression " deaf and dumb " . |
| 37 | It is true that once a useful co-ordinating convention is established every person has reason to adhere to it , a reason which is independent of the existence of the authority , a reason deriving entirely from the existence of the useful convention . |
| 38 | Hilton is aware that ultimately the lord will be best judge of what helps him most , but he suggests that every day should start with an effort to discipline his whole attention to God . |
| 39 | But at another level it is significant that almost every new initiative in British urban policy in the last decade has involved a ‘ freeing up ’ of the labour market . |
| 40 | It was possible that even a reject like him could be of use in such a godforsaken spot . |
| 41 | It was interesting that quite a number saw their being easily located at their place of work as a benefit . |
| 42 | By the early sixties … it was clear that neither the efforts made in the first post-war decade nor the developments outlined in Mr Butler 's White Paper were reducing — or were likely to reduce — the volume of crime or the numbers of persistent offenders . |
| 43 | But for years the garden , with its extraordinary follies and temples , had been decaying , and it was clear that soon no more than a few heaps of stone would be left . |
| 44 | They stood to attention , but it was clear that both the administrator and his deputy were unsure of the proper response . |
| 45 | From March 1918 it was clear that only a crushing military victory by one or other side would bring ‘ peace ’ . |
| 46 | The plenum , in the event , made little influence upon the continuing discussion , and by the early 1990s it was clear that only a reconsideration of the very bases of Soviet statehood would be likely to satisfy the aspirations of the various republics and nationalities . |
| 47 | Shipbuilding was in crisis , and it was clear that only the fittest could survive . |
| 48 | Law and morality were not yet clearly distinguished , nor could one even say that the whole of law or justice was to be found in any one court ; the Ecclesiastical Courts , and Local Courts of many different kinds , administered a justice which was not the justice of the Common Law Courts ; so the thought was natural that even the King 's justice was not exhausted in the power conferred on his courts . |
| 49 | It was unlikely that even a common language could create a common national spirit to unite Spanish-speaking people divided by the salt , estranging sea , but as long as empires based on the principles of allegiance to a monarch were the dominant form of political organization they were very well adapted to face the problems of expanding and then of ruling new subjects . |
| 50 | It was true that both the house and the grounds had the curious quality of seeming larger than they were . |
| 51 | We wrote it down and repeated it time and time again to Sergeant Moustaine , until he was satisfied that even the most stupid of us had understood it . |