Example sentences of "is [adv] [verb] that [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Former Irish international Dr Geraldine Barniville from Dublin has been nominated as the new president but it is understood that Ulster 's Billy Bell and Paddy McAuley the outgoing treasurer and secretary will not be standing for election. , It is widely acknowledged that Paddy McIlroy , past president of Ulster , and the outgoing Irish vice-president , made a major contribution in drafting the new constitution and by-laws . |
| 2 | On the other side , it is widely believed that Kerr 's ambitions are backed by money belonging to Jack Gillespie , a director of Rangers . |
| 3 | It is widely believed that Scuderia Italia will merge with Minardi next year . |
| 4 | It is widely believed that Mr Holmes a Court , the so called Perth predator , is keen to buy Dalgety 's extensive Australian land interests . |
| 5 | It is widely rumoured that Pillsbury and Ruth Carter Stevenson , an influential trustee of the National Gallery , did not get on , and also that several National Gallery staffers were , in the words of one curator , ‘ absolutely terrified ’ at the prospect of Pillsbury 's appointment , the general feeling being that ‘ heads would roll ’ in a grand sweep . |
| 6 | For example , it is widely held that Egas Moniz was stimulated into developing the now largely abandoned technique of controlling psychological disorders by the use of psychosurgery after hearing about the ‘ beneficial ’ side-effects of frontal lobe removal in chimpanzees . |
| 7 | It is widely conjectured that Stalin himself planned the murder of Kirov . |
| 8 | Yet , says Sir Adrian Cadbury , chairman of PRONED , the organisation which seeks to promote wider use of non-executive directors , it is overwhelmingly accepted that NEDs with the right qualities are essential in an effective board . |
| 9 | The influence of national political considerations on local electoral behaviour is so marked that Newton considers that ‘ the term ‘ local election ’ is something of a misnomer … . |
| 10 | It is entirely fitting that Dawn Run should share the statuary honours with the other two Cheltenham legends , for she was the first — and to date the only — horse to win both the Champion Hurdle and the Cheltenham Gold Cup . |
| 11 | It is generally assumed that ASL is historically linked to the French Sign Language of the early 19th century , researchers seeing evidence of cognate signs in French Sign Language and ASL ( fig. 8.1 ) . |
| 12 | It is generally stated that Vlasov was awarded the Order of Lenin in February 1941 and the Order of the Red Banner in January 1942 ; however , a photograph of summer 1942 clearly shows him wearing two badges of the latter , as here . |
| 13 | It is generally agreed that Japan possesses many of the institutional characteristics of other capitalist societies , but these institutions do not produce the same degree of impersonal alienation because subordinates are regularly consulted and authority is ‘ soft ’ and legitimate . |
| 14 | It is generally agreed that Haydn was the father of the string quartet , and he set the highest standards : the quartets of Beethoven and Schubert could hardly have been written without his brilliant examples of how it should be done . |
| 15 | But unfortunately we can then easily imagine a context in which that sentence might be appropriately used , in which it is not assumed that John cheated : for example , you thought he had cheated , asked me whether he now repents , but I tell you he never did , and persuade you accordingly , and then I say so John does n't regret cheating ( Gazdar , 1979a : 105 ) . |
| 16 | It is not destined that Eleanor shall marry Bertie Stanhope ’ , he is teasing rather than indulging his audience . |
| 17 | It is not pleaded that Euramco has gone into liquidation . |
| 18 | This is not to say that Shadwell does not add some twists of his own . |
| 19 | All this is not to say that Basil was incapable of showing normal human impatience or intolerance . |
| 20 | This is not to say that Marx was unaware of the need for such a proportional distribution of labour , but this was not directly discussed in his own exposition of the schemas of reproduction . |
| 21 | This is not to say that Locke accepts all the details of the scholastic account of scientia any more than Gassendi did . |
| 22 | This is not to say that Richard was irreligious . |
| 23 | This is not to say that Castro 's actions as described above can be explained solely in terms of Cuba 's relations with Moscow . |
| 24 | Predictably , the terse prose of Hemingway is found to lack the transformational complexities typical of Faulkner : which is not to say that Hemingway is innocent of transformations , only that he tends to use transformations of a different kind . |
| 25 | That is not to say that Derek Bevan was wrong ; just to say that we saw it differently , that 's all . |
| 26 | This is not to say that Paisley was dictatorial and simply imposed his will on other activists . |
| 27 | Creating an image , in this sense , is an external systematizing activity ; which is not to say that Zuwaya failed to recognize the finished product or failed to enjoy it . |
| 28 | This is not to say that Hewison denies outright the possibility of a career — his concentration throughout the book on the films of Derek Jarman speaks otherwise — it is more that the pessimism of his viewpoint stops him from looking for them . |
| 29 | This is not to say that James II ( or VII as he was in his northern Kingdom ) was any more popular in Scotland at the time of the Revolution than he had been in England . |
| 30 | This is not to say that Gloucester was consciously building up his own authority at the expense of the crown — the distinction is meaningless in Edward IV 's lifetime — but by 1483 the duchy connection was Gloucester 's as well as the king 's . |