Example sentences of "is [adj] [to-vb] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is vain to think that more of the load will be shouldered by voluntary effort . |
| 2 | There is little to suggest that this view changed , at least until the sterling crisis of 1947 . |
| 3 | However , there is little to suggest that this occurred . |
| 4 | Although it might have been hoped that local and central government would redirect main programmes to the benefit of the cities , there is little to suggest that this occurred . |
| 5 | Despite the evidence of solidarity there is little to suggest that this culture , even though it is against the formal organizational structure , is one that produces active protest against the conditions of the work enterprise . |
| 6 | Moreover , there is little to suggest that public-sector investment has been successful in encouraging equivalent private spending . |
| 7 | It is difficult to know how far they were a significant deterrent to claiming relief , but over the long term there is little to suggest that any parish maintained the lowering of its poor rate which sometimes accompanied the initial operation of a workhouse . |
| 8 | Equally there is little to suggest that past human groups were any less exploitative of their environment — or any less spendthrift in their consumption of its resources — than we are today . |
| 9 | There is little to indicate that environmental and/or property improvements actually create jobs , boost output or encourage investment . |
| 10 | Yet the central point is that it is absurd to assume that any woman is less competent to direct her life than any man she marries . |
| 11 | To someone such as I , who had the vague but tenacious idea that Indians communicated in pictures only , a fragile method , it is pleasant to see that one scholar of native American languages calls the manuscripts ‘ the largest corpus of texts ’ of them and ‘ a remarkable resource ’ . |
| 12 | It is pleasant to find that this believer in the perfectibility of mankind was a good father to them all . |
| 13 | When there is a market for the intermediate product , it is usual to assume that each division can trade with that market if it wants to . |
| 14 | It is strange to think that these two extraordinary symphonies came from the composer of the student-exercise Piano Quartet movement which has been recorded by the Alpe Adria Ensemble . |
| 15 | It is strange to relate that this well-known symbol has been comparatively neglected by social scientists and especially by social psychologists . |
| 16 | It is strange to relate that this short stretch of water should be such a barrier but the hills of Wouldham and village are as foreign to some people of Halling as any parts of the world and in fact there are some who travel all over the country and to some places abroad , but have lived all their lives in the village without ever setting foot on the further banks of the river . |
| 17 | It is possible to argue that certain sections could , with advantage , have been expanded to stress the more chemical aspects of topics — eg the section of enzymes ‘ in reverse ’ ( why not refer to this as synthesis ? ) touches on an area of great value and which is increasingly used industrially . |
| 18 | On the other hand , where severance of the subject matter is envisaged under the contract and property is to pass at this time , it is possible to argue that this is only a sale of goods ( see Kursell v Timber Operators and Contractors Ltd [ 1927 ] 1 KB 298 ) . |
| 19 | The world can be divided up on a purely climatic basis by using any climatic parameters one likes , so that the number of possible methods of division is very large , but , as most of these are meaningless geographically , it is possible to say that pure climatic regions do not exist , at least from a geographer 's point of view . |
| 20 | It is possible to say that Christian beliefs are ‘ symbolically true ’ . |
| 21 | Decision tables are less graphical but are concise and have an in-built verification mechanism so that it is possible to check that all the conditions have been catered for . |
| 22 | If it is possible to show that existential propositions are equivalent to denials of the validity of inferences of a certain kind , then instead of talking about existence we can confine ourselves to talking about the validity of inference . |
| 23 | In both Devon and Somerset it is possible to show that some of the surviving medieval farmsteads represent former hamlets . |
| 24 | The general form is Under certain conditions it is possible to show that any functional y may be expressed in the form ( Frechet 1910 ) . |
| 25 | It is possible to think that this plebeian has been lent some part of Naipaul 's aristocratic fastidiousness , some part of his hostility , while also suffering the consequences of an exposure to these qualities , and to recall that both Ahmed and the author of An Area of Darkness are preoccupied with the hanks of human shit that litter certain landscapes . |
| 26 | It is possible to imagine that one of them was brightening with the low cunning of unscrupulous greed and that the other was already stepping into that heavy gloom of shame and guilt which could only take him to the hospital or worse . |
| 27 | Sir Ian is right to emphasise that plebeian savagery was more vulnerable than its patrician counterpart : cock-throwing declined while fox-hunting flour ished . |
| 28 | Macdonald is right to state that future research must find out how genes and environment operate ( or co-operate ? ) and that newer twin study-designs may help with this . |
| 29 | While Fisher is right to argue that some important principles can , nevertheless , be applied , he is also right to say that the consumerist philosophy and concepts of compulsory care which involve acting in the individual 's interests are basically incompatible . |
| 30 | Keith Flett is right to claim that Labour needs active grassroots supporters to defeat the Tories ( Letters , 24 April ) . |