Example sentences of "is [adj] that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In unfair dismissal cases , it is understandable that industrial tribunals tend to shrink away from complex arithmetic . |
| 2 | It is absurd that Western citizens should give money to help victims of apartheid in Mozambique and Angola , only to find their own elected governments undermining that work by continuing to trade with South Africa . |
| 3 | It is absurd that French Railways can raise funds for new investment in the City of London , when British Rail is not allowed to do so . |
| 4 | Whatever the basis for these suspicions , it is undeniable that close connections between the mining companies and some prominent politicians were to raise grave doubts about the legitimacy of state actions in relation to mining . |
| 5 | Steers ( 1953 ) has stressed the importance of vegetation and of dune formation in the history of offshore bars on the north Norfolk coast , which will be discussed below , and it is possible that slight changes of base level may also be important in the initial stages of some offshore bars . |
| 6 | It is possible that concrete foundations for a boundary wall will be laid at the same time by the adjacent landowner ) ; |
| 7 | Most of the terraces are preserved as flattenings on spurs and it is possible that similar features might result from wasting of a spur due to attack by the headward erosion of valleys on either side . |
| 8 | It is possible that future developments in storage and warehousing may intensify these problems . |
| 9 | It is possible that future cohorts of older people will illustrate different patterns of disability . |
| 10 | As the severity of Crohn 's disease and linear growth velocity during the first two years of follow up among males and females were comparable , it is possible that varying demands on growth during normal puberty may account for these differences . |
| 11 | Given that the recognition of the significance of portal hypertension in portopulmonary hypertension is recent , it is possible that other cases of PBC associated primary PHT have been dismissed as merely associated with liver disease . |
| 12 | Expanding upon his conversation at the Paris airshow ( see the August issue ) , Yakovlev noted that , ‘ It is possible that other types of single-engined Yak replicas or restorations will appear . ’ |
| 13 | A quarter of the present patients had no identifiable gastrointestinal infection/infestation ; it is possible that new organisms or occult infection are implicated , and , although unlikely given the absence of CD4 receptors on healthy biliary epithelium , HIV may itself damage the biliary tree . |
| 14 | For the most part it made use of trackways already established and ancient , though it is possible that new pieces of track were trampled out where the direct line required it . |
| 15 | Even in the case of language tests , it is possible that situational factors will influence a child 's performance and hence make comparisons between two sets of scores difficult to interpret . |
| 16 | " Or it is possible that exaggerated stories have got about of the valuables in Moorlake . |
| 17 | With eighty percent of the scholarly publications in research libraries printed on acidic paper and major campaigns underway in the US and Europe either to reformat or substitute that material in new formats such as microfilm or digital media it is possible that retrospective conversions will eventually digitize millions of volumes . |
| 18 | However , it is possible that cognitive changes occurring in the early stages of a depressive disorder may initiate a vicious circle that can transform an otherwise mild and short-lived reaction into one that is more severe and protracted . |
| 19 | Apart from the artifactual GS-ANA staining pattern caused by antibodies directed against nucleophilic cytoplasmic antigens , it is possible that true GS-ANAs also exist . |
| 20 | Further research is needed in this area and it is possible that important abnormalities in the ‘ modulating ’ apoproteins may be found . |
| 21 | For example , it is possible that clinical cases are only an extreme form of a normal reaction to the short winter days . |
| 22 | It is possible that risky situations may lead to enhanced memory for information centrally important to driving in the situation but show impairments in memory for information peripheral to the driving task . |
| 23 | This underwater world has not yet been thoroughly explored , so it is possible that unknown monsters exist there . |
| 24 | It is possible that time-gap experiences represent driving at the tactical level which is conducted without controlled processes being involved , the assumption here is the common one that unless a stimulus event receives conscious attention it will not be stored in long term memory ( e.g. Bargh , 1984 ; Broadbent , 1958 ; Moray , 1959 ; Shiffrin & Schneider , 1977 ) . |
| 25 | Since the patients in Newcombe and Ratcliff 's study sustained penetrating missile wounds of the brain whereas those of Hécaen and Sauguet suffered from naturally occurring lesions it is possible that aetiological differences account for the discrepant findings . |
| 26 | It is possible that hormonal fluctuations which occur while a woman is pregnant can affect both mood and pre-natal development more than was once recognised . |
| 27 | All accommodation and resorts are described as they are seen , but it is possible that local conditions and changes could affect the situation quite significantly . |
| 28 | It is possible that local managers were looking over their shoulders in planning ahead ; there was little pressure on them from the informed public to achieve rundown and disperse asylum services . |
| 29 | Administrators , on the other hand , are entirely the creatures of statute and it is possible that different considerations apply to administrators than apply to administrative receivers on the question of unregistered companies . |
| 30 | It is possible that twelfth-century laymen regarded his outpourings with an indulgent smile . |