Example sentences of "[is] [adj] that [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His lace assumes a natural look he 's able to sit up and breathe more normally and for a time seems well My dear Dr Dunstaple , perhaps you could explain to us why , if the symptoms are caused , as you seem to believe , by damage to the lungs or by a poison circulating in the blood and depressing the action of the heart … why it 's possible that these symptoms should thus be suspended by an injection of warm water holding a little salt in solution ? " |
| 2 | John Anderson , principal hydrologist with the Tay River Purification Board , is emphatic that any attempt to hold back the irresistible force of the Tay is doomed to failure . |
| 3 | Deputy Editor John Bryant said : ‘ It is absurd that any newspaper should ask the Office of Fair Trading to raise the price of another newspaper , particularly at a time when all the qualities are losing circulation . |
| 4 | IT IS shameful that some people are saying Britain should not give sanctuary to refugees from the civil war in Yugoslavia . |
| 5 | It is strange that that point is being made because of a shift of about 1,000 votes in a constituency . |
| 6 | ‘ It is strange that most companies insure property , plant and equipment against damage or theft as a matter of routine . |
| 7 | ‘ Master , ’ I touched him on the shoulder , ‘ it is strange that these messengers stop at the same convent where the Lady Francesca was educated . |
| 8 | Given his initial thought that properly established geometrical results would not be disputable , it is ironical that this claim led to lengthy and acrimonious argument , and brought Hobbes into some disrepute . |
| 9 | From a rural development point of view it is preferable that such industries have a family or community labour base and that the initiative for their establishment comes principally from the community . |
| 10 | While it is undeniable that that system has had a dramatic effect of the development of the market it is incorrect to assume that it is the only one which is influencing it . |
| 11 | It is undeniable that most readers find amusement to be part of their experience of these texts . |
| 12 | If at least some people and states obey some laws for other reasons , such as moral conviction or non-coerced self-interest , then it is possible that all persons and states might do so . |
| 13 | It is possible that all dreams are merely mental detritus . |
| 14 | Apparently it was convenient for BR to say that , because , had there been such a high-speed line included in the Channel Tunnel Bill , it is possible that that Bill would have fallen . |
| 15 | It is possible that such customers will not be concerned by an indirect holding via an index future ( Martin , 1988 ; Luskin , 1987 , pp. 343 4 ) . |
| 16 | Nor do the minutes provide evidence of any formal attempt to compare the cost of improving Village school building with the cost of transporting the children to Green Haven , though it is possible that such studies took place . |
| 17 | It is possible that such errors however , are merely indicative of the same craftsman 's readjustments . |
| 18 | It is possible that such people had minor enzyme deficiencies before their damaging exposure , but that these were not causing any symptoms at that stage . |
| 19 | It is possible that such perturbations to regional heat flow may have affected the evolution of vitrinite reflectance in the underlying Carboniferous rocks . |
| 20 | Lillian Faderman accepts that women 's relations may have been less physical in the past , but asserts that it is possible that such relations were still lesbian : |
| 21 | It is possible that many cases of petty assault were instituted as retaliation for verbal abuse . |
| 22 | Indeed it is possible that many people recognise subconsciously that the hypothesis is not merely unprovable , but false ; certainly many drift away from an active interest in the subject . |
| 23 | It is possible that these countries could become virtual havens for the continuing production of CFCs . |
| 24 | It is possible that these changes have been critical in generating the considerable crustal extension ( possibly up to 100 per cent ) calculated for the Basin and Range Province . |
| 25 | It is possible that these differences reflect the availability of suitable timber , but it is difficult at present to determine the extent of woodland at a sufficient level of detail . |
| 26 | It is possible that these differences do not preclude these mosaics as works of the same mosaicist . |
| 27 | It is possible that these symptoms are due to hormonal upsets , caused by anti-bodies affecting the ovaries . |
| 28 | It is possible that some day such concern will change . |
| 29 | It is possible that some elements of the Hooligan dress-style were derived from the clothes favoured by costermongers in mid-nineteenth-century London . |
| 30 | It is possible that some basis for explaining British football hooliganism may be found in appropriate studies of American sports-related disorder . |