Example sentences of "[is] [adj] [verb] that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's strange to think that pile of tapes is all that 's left of Nicola 's life , is n't it ? ’ |
| 2 | It is shameful to suggest that Fascism is , or was , anti-Semitic . |
| 3 | It may be impossible to draw up a fitness league table but it is possible to say that complexity has increased during evolution . |
| 4 | By means of thermodynamic arguments it is possible to show that entropy change is equal to energy transferred as heat , q , divided by the temperature , T , thus The change in entropy can , relate to either the system or the surroundings . |
| 5 | Caroline 's comment : Faith is right to think that breast or formula milk is the best choice for Jake until he 's a year old although cow 's milk can be given from six months . |
| 6 | The hon. Member for Gateshead , East is right to suggest that government should be accountable and responsive — but to achieve that we need government that truly reflects local communities . |
| 7 | It is unrealistic to believe that warning labels will do anything to reduce alcohol abuse . |
| 8 | In his view , it is fallacious to say that Unix costs less per number of users than mainframes because no-one has ever put a large number of users on Unix boxes . |
| 9 | It is heartening to know that road casualties present no substantial threat to the toads at this particular lake . |
| 10 | It is wrong to contend that divorce legislation ‘ defines ’ all marriages as being dissoluble . |
| 11 | Editor , — John R Hampton may be right to lament the decline in doctors ' abilities to elicit and interpret physical signs , but I believe that he is wrong to conclude that training in the setting of general practice will sound the deathknell of these skills . |
| 12 | Self also believes it is wrong to assume that bureau chiefs generally control a monopoly . |
| 13 | It is interesting to note that bullhead rail is still in evidence some forty years after the infant British Railways adopted flat-bottom rail as standard . |
| 14 | Increased cellular proliferation has previously been reported in Barrett 's mucosa , and it is interesting to note that EGF is found in many of the epithelial cells of Barrett 's epithelium . |
| 15 | It is interesting to note that legislation was required , because , as said above , mid-nineteenth-century reformers thought that most of what was needed could be achieved by formalising the relationship by means of a lease . |
| 16 | It is interesting to note that stereo sound is already featured on some video recorders and camcorders , and it seems that it is only a matter of time before it becomes standard as for sound recorders . |
| 17 | It is interesting to note that Parliament struck these words out of s.62 because they took away from the purity of the section . |
| 18 | It is interesting to note that management and professional staff are the least certain as to whether they will move with their jobs . |
| 19 | expand this to a neighbourhood and it is easy to see that collection and transportation costs would turn this into an uneconomical exercise . |
| 20 | At the same time it is easy to see that group solidarity overrides all other loyalties and motives . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's frightening to think that sort of person exists . ’ |
| 22 | Even if the defendant himself can plausibly say that he did not intend to use violence , it is sufficient if he uses the language or behaviour in a situation where the addressee is likely to believe that violence will be used against him either by the speaker or by other persons . |
| 23 | So far in this section the naive inductivist account of science has been undermined largely by arguing that theories must precede observation statements , so that it is false to claim that science starts with observation . |
| 24 | But it is imperative to ensure that research is carried out on the value of screening for gestational diabetes in those hitherto neglected settings . |
| 25 | ‘ It is hard to believe that poverty stalks the land when even the poorest fifth of families with children spend nearly a tenth of their income on alcohol and tobacco ’ , was Mr Moore 's dismissive conclusion . |
| 26 | Since there is no guarantee that the behaviour of participants during the life of a co-operative R&D venture will mesh with their initial goals , or that new , anticompetitive restrictions will not be added to what started out as a pro-competitive co-operative R&D agreement , it is hard to believe that immunity from prosecution is an attractive policy option in the absence of continuous monitoring by the antitrust authorities . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's unfair to suggest that nature conservation is always about fencing off pretty sites , ’ says naturalist David Attenborough . |
| 28 | ‘ Even though I have been shriven , it is good to know that bastard went before me . |
| 29 | It is good to know that employee trustees have been introduced within the JS pension scheme , but I would nevertheless question whether ‘ ordinary employees ’ are likely to affect the deliberations and decisions of the present high-powered trustees , all of them JS directors , either currently or ex ? |
| 30 | NOW that the heavens have opened , dry rivers are flowing and our reservoirs are full , it 's comforting to think that summer hosepipe bans will be a thing of the past . |