Example sentences of "is [adj] [to-vb] that [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as schools have been accused of creating pupils with learning difficulties , it is possible to argue that schools create disruptive pupils . |
| 2 | It is not that prospects for earnings are 10 p.c. better that they were in the middle of last week , but it is possible to argue that prospects are that much better than they would have been under a Labour government and that the market was discounting such a result . |
| 3 | It notes that it is possible to argue that societies ' liquid assets are mostly fixed , mostly current or neither fixed nor current ! |
| 4 | However , it is possible to concede that defendants should be judged on the facts as they believe them to be , and yet to argue in favour of an exception in rape cases . |
| 5 | Mr Lawson is right to say that deficits are more sustainable than they were in the 1970s . |
| 6 | I know that that caused some concern , but , broadly speaking , my hon. Friend is right to say that standards in our schools are very good . |
| 7 | It is unrealistic to expect that accounts can contain ‘ full ’ provisions for the Businesses 's liabilities . |
| 8 | It is popular to believe that managers are responsible for developing their people but closer examination reveals this to be a nonsense . |
| 9 | Paul is careful to emphasise that relationships relate both to God and man by the statement which comes immediately prior to , and also introduces , his section on the full range of relationships in which Christians will be involved . |
| 10 | We can now ask how far it is sensible to say that genes ‘ program ’ or ‘ control ’ development . |
| 11 | Our results suggest that it is wrong to assume that patients will become unduly anxious if they are warned about most of the potential risks of surgical treatment , at least as far as inguinal herniorrhaphy and general anaesthesia are concerned . |
| 12 | It is interesting to observe that publishers regularly reproduce conscious manipulation of the written medium on the part of the writer . |
| 13 | It is interesting to note that birds and mammals can be grouped together in evolution terms , as both evolved from two distinct reptilian stocks along independent lines ; but both can be treated as similar from a thermoregulatory point of view . |
| 14 | It is interesting to note that attitudes towards the outcomes of SSE , in terms of the promotion of change in schools , are only minimally correlated to attitudes towards the processes . |
| 15 | However it is interesting to note that Johnes ( 1990 ) , in her study of student wastage in the University of Lancaster , while emphasising the importance of A-level results , also points to the importance of other factors associated with non-completion . |
| 16 | It is interesting to note that Eskimos have higher HDLs . |
| 17 | It is interesting to note that GLCABS have recently made their interviewing procedure more personal and informal . |
| 18 | It is interesting to note that prepositions such as in and out can appear adjectivally , for example the in thing , it 's out , it 's not on . |
| 19 | Defendants are permitted to prove their innocence to the extent of whatever accounts and receipts they may have , but case law has shown that it is impossible to prove that savings from wages are not the fruit of crime , being just money in the bank . |
| 20 | And , remember , that Times 12 Roman and Times 12 Italic are two different fonts so it is easy to see that users quickly began to experience problems . |
| 21 | It is easy to see that users and separate pieces of literature may hold different perspectives on one subject . |
| 22 | Since all the schools follow the same teaching plan and since the content of the programme followed by children in the early years is less demanding academically than that followed by adolescents , it is easy to argue that teachers in the lower grades require less training . |
| 23 | It is easy to assume that teams are ‘ a good thing ’ and therefore , in some way , essential , but experience indicates that they are only essential in certain sorts of situations . |
| 24 | The huge , gently tilting summit plateau is vast and it is easy to believe that locals held horse races here last century . |
| 25 | Today , it is easy to imagine that Romanians would indeed welcome Soviet forces with open arms as liberators . |
| 26 | When looking for solutions of the Ernst equation for stationary axisymmetric space-times , it is appropriate to require that solutions be asymptotically flat . |
| 27 | Sir David is likely to stress that proposals which are viewed in the colony as ungenerous would create difficulties for his administration 's attempts to ensure a smooth transition to Chinese rule . |
| 28 | Certainly it is hard to believe that bull-leapers grasped the horns , and relied on the tossing movement to get them safely over the bull 's head . |
| 29 | In Milan the victims and suspected victims — and it is hard to believe that non-sufferers ever survived being suspected sufferers — were herded in to a custom-built enclosure . |
| 30 | Given the substantial experience that many schools have built up of alternative timetabling structures — through the provision of BTEC courses , for instance , or CPVE , or through modular and cyclical courses under TVEI — it is hard to believe that schools will not take the opportunity of reviewing present practice to reflect more closely what we know about effective learning . |