Example sentences of "is [adv] [adj] that [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Abse is most emphatic that mothers should congratulate children on their first excretions , and praise the resulting faeces . |
| 2 | In the process of delivering National Curriculum history it is most important that pupils are introduced to a wide and varied range of historical resources , and it may be useful to offer some general advice on the resourcing of such units . |
| 3 | It is most important that arts teachers see themselves first and foremost as teachers and only after carrying out their duties in this respect to see themselves as artists . |
| 4 | ‘ It is rather regrettable that candidates have to use their energy on this sort of thing , instead of working to get elected . ’ |
| 5 | It is little wonder that surgeons themselves develop medical conditions : bad backs are common . |
| 6 | In these days of broadening the base of those who are authorised to undertake conveyancing , it is fundamentally important that solicitors should follow the Law Society 's guide on how to deal with unadmitted persons . |
| 7 | Investors realize that it is highly improbable that events will turn out as expected . |
| 8 | The resulting exposition is so authoritative that practitioners and the courts departed from it only rarely unless subsequent developments made this necessary . |
| 9 | Mrs Prentiss , the wife of the American consul in St Pierre wrote a letter home : ‘ The smell of sulphur is so strong that horses in the street stop and snort , and some of them drop in their harness and die of suffocation . |
| 10 | The author is not aware of any book dealing with the totality of this field , indeed it is so wide that generalisations can be misleading . |
| 11 | At its climax , their performance is so punishing that senses of sight , sound and balance break down almost entirely . |
| 12 | But the pigeon 's adaptation to such a diet of large objects is so good that seeds only a little smaller than a nutmeg will pass right through the bird and be ejected together with a small quantity of droppings which will help them grow on the forest floor . |
| 13 | The placid dog is a more promising patient and the treatment , I am assured , is so relaxing that dogs often fall asleep . |
| 14 | ‘ America is so big that bands are n't surrounded by other bands trying to do the same thing . |
| 15 | The children 's charity , Barnardos , says that poverty in Britain is so bad that parents are going hungry so that the children can eat . |
| 16 | Another area of apparent convergence is that both schools of thought would acknowledge that in some situations parental care is so bad that children should be removed and kept away from their parents . |
| 17 | County Durham headteacher , Olwyn Gunn , a national executive member of the National Association of Schoolmasters and Union of Women Teachers , said : ‘ I really do n't know of any school where poverty is so bad that children are being treated like this . ’ |
| 18 | We have been given to understand that our forest of Chippenham around the place called ‘ Holloway ’ is so dense that malefactors are able to lie hid in those parts , and so travellers are threatened with frequent losses , and some incur peril of lives and goods there . |
| 19 | It could also be that the chain of distribution is so complicated that margins are pared to nothing . |
| 20 | In some cases , incidentally , this is so precise that embryologists can give a name to each cell , and a given cell in one individual organism can be said to have an exact counterpart in another organism . |
| 21 | And the ensuing pain is so intense that victims seem , for a while , to go out of their minds . |
| 22 | Given their experience of the remote jargon of their teacher training , and of the demonstrable lack of impact of the pundits on education , as well as their weariness and preoccupation , it is entirely understandable that teachers should be turned off ideas at least as much in 1989 as they were twenty-five years ago : understandable but a mistake , as I am trying to argue . |
| 23 | It is entirely appropriate that racehorses should be trained in that setting , for Lady Anne 's grandfather was the 6th Duke of Portland , owner of the legendary racehorse and sire St Simon . |
| 24 | It is perhaps inevitable that professionals view advocates with a touch of apprehension and mistrust . |
| 25 | If a proper level of justice is provided in prisons , then it is less likely that prisoners will behave in this way . |
| 26 | However , as a result of Russell v Northern Bank it is less likely that companies will be parties to such agreements lest any provision in the agreement is considered a fetter of the vendor 's statutory powers and the agreement is declared invalid . |
| 27 | Leaving aside the moral issue , it is obviously desirable that schools should foster awareness of the physical risks of sexual activity , and especially of the danger of contracting a sexually transmitted disease . |
| 28 | As regards the market within the firm , it is obviously true that managers are frequently competitive by nature and hence will exert themselves in their quest for personal advancement within the organisational hierarchy . |
| 29 | It is scarcely surprising that popes did not like calling Councils . |
| 30 | However , it is patently obvious that parents can be a good or bad influence and example for their children , and this fact can hardly be used to explain present patterns of crime . |