Example sentences of "is [adj] that [noun] be " in BNC.

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1 Of course it is admirable that expectations are high and that women should be given greater autonomy ( and hope for more in the sexual area than their Victorian forebears ) .
2 Whilst it is undeniable that Strach is a great player he is approaching his 37th birthday — how much longer can he keep it going .
3 It is undeniable that artillery was making progress , and that its development was one of the major changes associated with the conduct of war at this time .
4 It is always laborious to find the components of a vector , so we are not much better off with A than with H or B. It turns out however that A is a more basic quantity of physics than B. Since B is given by the curl of A it is possible that A is finite while its curl is zero .
5 However , legionellae suspended in aerosol at 65% relative humidity in laboratory conditions can survive for at least 2 h , so it is possible that legionellae are also robust in air in natural conditions .
6 Since the play was probably written before her dismissal , it is possible that Leapor is describing a struggle against the logic of her own ambitions .
7 It is possible that Leapor was employed at Weston at the time of Arthur Barnardiston 's death .
8 It is possible that women are , on the whole , more receptive to acknowledging them , and will use them more readily .
9 As lack of MHC class II antigens on the cell surface does not adversely affect the ability of cells to grow ( 35 ) , it is possible that pleiotropism is implicated .
10 Indeed in some cases it is possible that responses are made to those whose communication channels are working most efficiently , but not to those whose channels are blocked or filtered .
11 It is possible that EGF is not produced in the oesophagus but is transported to the oesophageal mucosa by the blood stream , being released from the platelets and then transported into capillary endothelium .
12 As shown in Fig 7 , channel kinetics underconditions that produced inward current flow ( NaCl solution in the bath and high K + solution in the pipette ) differed from those seen during outward current flow ( see Fig 1 ) , and it is possible that channels were not activated sufficiently to produce sustained bursts of openings when NaCl solution was present in the bath .
13 Consequently , it is possible that alteration is responsible , at least in part , for these unusual groundmass compositions .
14 But it is possible that auditors are trapped by their competitive environment , and so are unable to heed Professor Tweedie 's warning even if they wanted to .
15 But a solicitous critic ( Amis has had his share , for all the faces he makes ) could perhaps be counted on to demonstrate that the novelist is sorry that Patrick is sexist .
16 It is clear that signalling is one of the vital factors that , unfortunately , has contributed in the immediate past to several major accidents .
17 It is clear that Ministers are intent on a campaign of vilification and attack on Mr. Bruce Millan , the European Commissioner responsible for regional development .
18 It is difficult to see through the vagueness now surrounding the Government 's plans , but it is clear that ministers were both unprepared and unco-ordinated in their response to what MPs across the political divide detected as the stench of injustice .
19 It is clear that Britain is coming out of recession and confidence is returning … the green shoots of economic spring are appearing once again .
20 Nevertheless , it is clear that charters were often important in determining ownership , as the quantity in which they were produced implies , and that boundary clauses could be taken very seriously .
21 From the outset it is clear that Alfieri is a highly intelligent man , and one who has been well educated .
22 It is clear that firms are taking the regulatory regime seriously ; nearly all have taken steps to comply with audit regulations .
23 This requires a conscious effort , because it is clear that discrimination is more often unintentional than intentional .
24 From a large number of quantititative studies , it is clear that escape is very well predicted by certain patterns of behaviour .
25 It is clear that TFT is an ESS ; TFT strategists , when playing each other , get the benefits of cooperation .
26 It takes a while to get used to the looks of the new car , but it is clear that Lotus is seeking to advance sports car design rather than just repeat past successes .
27 When one considers that the main reason that words are absent is that they are proper nouns , which will also be unavailable from the larger lexicon , it is clear that omissions are unavoidable .
28 As this has been combined with a general relaxation of Industrial Development Certificate controls on the location of industry and reduced real spending on regional policy , it is clear that resources are being redirected from rural areas .
29 Now it is clear that Falkenhayn was already beginning to lose interest in the ‘ bleeding white ’ experiment .
30 In particular , it is clear that associability is not ( as eq 3.1 implies ) determined solely by events occurring on the preceding trial .
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