Example sentences of "is [adj] [verb] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there is little to suggest that it will improve when China takes over . |
| 2 | Even now cases of crossed aphasia in right handers are likely to be reported in the literature on account of their rarity ( e.g. Brown and Wilson , 1973 ; Zangwill , 1979 ; Wechsler , 1976 ; April and Han , 1980 ) although there is little to suggest that there is any qualitative difference between the aphasias produced by left and right sided lesions ( Carr , Jacobson and Boller , 1981 ) . |
| 3 | In areas such as Cheltenham , Hereford and Eastbourne there is little to suggest that anything new has happened to enable them to translate this into general election support . |
| 4 | The work has been quite hard , actually little short of the 24 hours ' teaching a week which I originally feared we might have to teach , but it 's a pity not to offer the course as we prepared it in Peking , complete with extra lectures , as there seems to be a great demand for anything we teach , which is understandable considering that it 's a chance of a lifetime for some of the teachers ; in fact , some have never spoken to a foreigner in their lives before ! |
| 5 | The second thing to note is that to say that someone who says ‘ I hope ’ — for example , ‘ I hope you 'll come ’ — is simply expressing his mental state is to ignore the role of such utterances in human intercourse . |
| 6 | I agree also that it is absurd to suggest that there is anything wrong with national testing of pupils ' progress at certain ages , both to inform parents and to inform localities about the performance of their schools . |
| 7 | Although there is no evidence that Horace Walpole ( who died on 2 March 1797 ) ever attended College meetings it is pleasant to think that he may have formed the undiscovered link between Lord Camden and the as yet unlocated Veterinary College . |
| 8 | In this day and age when we are bombarded with books on climbing , it is strange to relate that there is no modern comprehensive history of mountaineering . |
| 9 | In particular to ensure that land that is restored to agriculture , forestry or amenity uses can be managed in a suitable way for a period after the restoration itself is complete to ensure that it returns to a proper level of productivity by an ‘ after-care ’ condition . |
| 10 | It is possible to see that they had never been lived in , could never be lived in , though front door and portico are present and their ranks of windows , the spaces where the glass should be painted a dull blue . |
| 11 | From the moment that Blanche decides to persuade Stella to leave the ‘ brute ’ , it is possible to see that there can only be a tragic ending . |
| 12 | However , it is not necessary for the restraint of trade clause to be part of the main contract so long as it is possible to argue that it is referable to it or is in some other way of contractual force . |
| 13 | It is possible to argue that he wrote in the proportion to which each location claimed or received his spans of time and attention — and as he spent more than twice the length of time out on the islands as he did getting there , the greater part of his book addresses the west . |
| 14 | It is possible to argue that there is , in principle , nothing more to understand , because the ‘ subjective meaning ’ of an action consists in conformity to the governing rules . |
| 15 | ‘ We do not think it is possible to deny that there are circumstances in which individuals may justifiably choose to enter into a homosexual relationship ... [ although ] such a relationship could not be regarded as the moral or social equivalent of marriage . ' |
| 16 | It is possible to say that their pas de deux are completely uninhibited . |
| 17 | Thus when a man 's vassals rebelled against him , it is possible to say that they were exerting , in due form , the ancient right of resistance , of diffidatio , or , with William of Malmesbury , that they had proved swift to break faith . |
| 18 | Indeed , it is possible to show that there was a marked increase in the number of married children living with parents during the nineteenth century and into the twentieth century in cotton towns — quite the reverse of what one would expect if it is true that industrialization broke up the extended family . |
| 19 | It is possible to hear that there are many people in a room , but without vision impossible to count them . |
| 20 | My hon. Friend is right to say that we live in an increasingly competitive environment and that much in the social action programme would damage that competitiveness within the European Community — to the interests of the Japanese , the United States and our other competitors . |
| 21 | My hon. Friend is right to say that the local income tax is not an alternative to council tax which commends itself to Conservative Members — or even to most Opposition Members , and he is right to say that anybody interested in knowing why local income tax will not work could do no better than to read the report of our proceedings in Committee . |
| 22 | My hon. Friend is right to say that there has been an enormous improvement . |
| 23 | The Minister is right to say that there are different reasons and attitudes in the different parties in the north of Ireland on this issue . |
| 24 | It is right to say that I have heard from Mrs Paul 's classroom assistant during the last academic year , she appears virtually to have acted as an enabler , but she was by no means dedicated to Paul as a one to one enabler and of course the extent of the attention of which she had to give to Paul detracted from her ability to give attention to other pupils . |
| 25 | He is right to insist that he rejects the material world of philosophers , such as Descartes and Malebranche , a world that is only indirectly perceived r=itvia our ideas . |
| 26 | His methods of computation may be ridiculous , but he is right to think that they do not love him , and his sense of bitter ingratitude causes his madness . |
| 27 | Tides are destroyers and creators of coastlines — nibbling here , building there ; it is odd to think that our coasts are shaped largely by the gravitational energy of the moon . |
| 28 | ‘ It is impractical to say that we should set some timetable for ending discharges without any idea whether it can be achieved or not . ’ |
| 29 | The possibility of a profit from the sale of one 's crime story is , however , so speculative that it is unrealistic to suppose that one would be deterred from committing a crime by the constructive trust statute . |
| 30 | It is unrealistic to expect that they would . |