Example sentences of "[is] that [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not surprising either to find that English visitors were hostile ; the notable point is that their real venom was unleashed not in the period before 1560 , when England and Scotland were nourishing their long-standing enmity , but afterwards , when they were officially allies , and particularly once the unthinkable and shameful had happened , and Scotland had given England a king , in the person of James VI in 1603 . |
| 2 | But what is especially characteristic of Todi and San Gimignano is that their golden age , their period of most notable prosperity , came to an end about 1300 , so that we can still inspect cities whose walls and public buildings , though there is an element of Etruscan and Roman in many of them , belong above all to the period from 1050 to 1300 . |
| 3 | What is striking about the Information Workstation Group 's efforts is that their actual study of multimedia is far better than their attempt to define it . |
| 4 | The second is that their long-term view may be clouded by immediate short-term factors . |
| 5 | Their main danger is that their entire home will become drenched and waterlogged . |
| 6 | What is not disputed , however , is that their current degree of refinement and decorative panache is primarily the result of the skill and artistry of the 16th and 17th-century Persian weavers and designers , who took a number of hitherto rather simple motifs and compositions and turned them into some of the most beautiful , elaborate and awe-inspiring examples of textile art the world has ever known . |
| 7 | sometimes artists have been working for two or three years , releasing records unsuccessfully , although the public 's perception is that their first hit must be their first record . |
| 8 | Having done so , I find the one feature that is common to both the New Zealand and British schemes is that their basic purpose is to relieve financially-embarrassed governments of claims for further investment . |
| 9 | But what is known about these genes , based mainly on biochemical evidence , is that their catalytic protein products are likely to play critical roles in the transducing pathways that stimulate cells to grow and adopt specific phenotypes of functional importance . |
| 10 | THE nightmare of Israeli and Palestinian peace negotiators is that their history-making agreement on self-rule in the West Bank and Gaza Strip may spark a Palestinian civil war . |
| 11 | One significant advantage of electric vehicles is that their widespread use would make far better use of off-peak electricity . |
| 12 | The one factor that still tilts general election predictions in the Tories ' favour is that their hillcrest position seems ultimately impregnable . |
| 13 | Noblenet 's problem is that its major competitor , Boulder , Colorado-based Netwise Inc has already mopped up most of the potential outlets with its RPC-Toolkit offering . |
| 14 | Its special property is that its chemical composition can be adjusted so it dissolves in water , soil , or human tissues at any predetermined rate . |
| 15 | IBM Corp 's personal computer business was around the break-even level or may have been profitable in the first three months of this year , the president of IBM Personal Computer Co Robert Corrigan told the New York Times : he says he thinks ‘ people will be surprised at how quickly we 're bringing this business back , ’ and that it should be solidly profitable before year-end ; problem is that its closest rivals , Compaq Computer Corp and Dell Computer Corp , which both faced the same problems as IBM , adjusted to the change in the market much more quickly , and rushed appropriate machines out while IBM procrastinated , so that they are already strongly profitable while IBM is still having to build up momentum . |
| 16 | The difficulty is that its traditional features — communal tenure , a three-field system , and growing land pressure — have often served as all-Russian criteria , but they did not apply to the West . |
| 17 | The theory is that its internal air pocket will ‘ bounce ’ back the dolphin 's sonar signal , regardless of the direction of approach . |
| 18 | What most visitors who admire it do n't know is that its original home was the middle of Oxford town centre — just below Carfax tower — with traffic flowing around it from all directions . |
| 19 | The movie 's dilemma is that its luxurious pace ambles all over the shop , never really getting anywhere or bringing any of the characters to a satisfying conclusion . |
| 20 | An important indication ( although , as we shall see , not a sufficient one ) that a portion of a sentence is a semantic constituent is that its semantic contribution to the sentence is the same as that which it makes to other , different sentences ; in other words , it carries what is in some sense a constant meaning from context to context . |
| 21 | The problem for the Thatcher Government is that its own diagnosis of the crisis of state authority constantly impelled it towards intervention whether in the internal affairs of trade unions , the spending priorities of local authorities , the curricula of schools and universities , or the patterns of family behaviour . |
| 22 | An additional problem when using alumina in load bearing situations is that its elastic modulus ( 380 GPa ) is significantly higher than that of the cortical bone ( 72.5 GPa ) with which it is in contact . |
| 23 | Almost entirely surrounded by a circle of water that formed part of the original fortifications , and still linked to its neighbours and the port of Zeebrugge about eight miles away by canals , Bruges ' attraction is that its medieval architecture is remarkably intact . |
| 24 | The impression left by the report issued yesterday is that its main aim was not to upset anyone . |
| 25 | One of the advantages of studying Middle English is that its written forms are highly variable . |
| 26 | It says a ‘ fundamental requirement ’ is that its retail acquirers should be issuers too . |
| 27 | The main advantage of Energy and the environment is that its rapid publication means that the information presented is as up to date as is possible in a book . |
| 28 | A MOTHER is living in a nightmare from which her only possible escape is that her tiny daughter may win her fight for life . |
| 29 | The interesting thing about the panto is that her real life brother , Stephen , will play the supporting role of Prince Danilo , who , I seem to remember , ends up marrying Snow |
| 30 | Mrs. Bennet 's approach is that her whole task in life is to get her daughters married as well as possible . |