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

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1 It is possible to argue that certain sections could , with advantage , have been expanded to stress the more chemical aspects of topics — eg the section of enzymes ‘ in reverse ’ ( why not refer to this as synthesis ? ) touches on an area of great value and which is increasingly used industrially .
2 The world can be divided up on a purely climatic basis by using any climatic parameters one likes , so that the number of possible methods of division is very large , but , as most of these are meaningless geographically , it is possible to say that pure climatic regions do not exist , at least from a geographer 's point of view .
3 It is possible to say that Christian beliefs are ‘ symbolically true ’ .
4 If it is possible to show that existential propositions are equivalent to denials of the validity of inferences of a certain kind , then instead of talking about existence we can confine ourselves to talking about the validity of inference .
5 Sir Ian is right to emphasise that plebeian savagery was more vulnerable than its patrician counterpart : cock-throwing declined while fox-hunting flour ished .
6 Macdonald is right to state that future research must find out how genes and environment operate ( or co-operate ? ) and that newer twin study-designs may help with this .
7 Keith Flett is right to claim that Labour needs active grassroots supporters to defeat the Tories ( Letters , 24 April ) .
8 Hall is right to say that current Labour and Liberal parties can not take on the task of realignment , but would be equally correct in saying they ca n't be by-passed .
9 Although my hon. Friend is right to say that budget-holding practices have been outstandingly successful and are now very popular with most doctors —
10 My hon. Friend is right to say that British Rail needs to use available modern technology to reduce further the incidence of accidents involving loss of life and injury on the railways .
11 J R Hall ( Points of View , 12 February ) is right to suggest that British Rail would be able to make a profit if the Government took full responsibility for funding the provision and maintenance of railway infrastructure as it does roads .
12 Although innovative schemes have made it possible to maintain at home people with disabilities that were once thought to require hospital or residential care , it is unrealistic to suggest that institutional care could be entirely dispensed with .
13 It is popular to assume that other people resist change but , of course , we are all potential resisters of change .
14 It is wrong to say that real ale should be served at room temperature : too warm and the beer tastes tacky and rancid ; too cold and the subtle palate of the beer is masked by the chill .
15 ( It is interesting to see that recent union negotiations may place the wages of such workers above those of refuse collectors for the first time . )
16 It is interesting to note that rectilinear structures are frequently found in one of two distinctive locations , often accompanied by marked functional variations .
17 It is interesting to note that other countries are now copying our know-how funds because they have been of such help to the former Soviet Union and other eastern European countries .
18 Library lessons taught library layout , the Dewey Decimal Classification , the index , and the contents page in ways which were not dissimilar from library lessons of 20 years ago , and it is interesting to note that absolute silence is the requirement at all times .
19 It is interesting to note that electric vehicles built in 1920 were still in use in the 1950s .
20 It is interesting to note that severe physical exercise in the daytime is sometimes associated with increased deep sleep the following night ; perhaps there is a link here between deep sleep , an increase in growth hormone release , and the growth of muscular tissue that is produced by exercise .
21 If this peptide plays a significant part in regulating fat consumption , it is interesting to note that dietary fat has a role in colipase regulation with an adaptive response to dietary lipids having been shown with at least a twofold increase in pancreatic procolipase in rats fed a 25–30% lipid containing diet .
22 It is interesting to note that high spring tides occur at approximately the same time of the day every year in each location on the coast .
23 ( It is interesting to note that freshwater pearls were known to the Chinese by the beginning of the first millennium B.C. )
24 It is interesting to learn that nuclear scientists are now seeking the particles necessary to anti-matter and may have found some of them .
25 And it is crucial to recognize that widespread racial discrimination has been an important factor in reproducing these patterns of employment and settlement and , as we shall see , also has a significant role in explanations of levels of achievement by black pupils in British schools .
26 It is sad to see that conservation bodies seem to have halted their attempts to purchase the key Cairngorms estate of Mar Lodge .
27 It is easy to see that would-be DIY funeral undertakers would be as welcome as a swarm of greenfly at the Chelsea flower show .
28 It is easy to deduce that other systems do , too ; many targets are being hit again and again .
29 IVF is already spreading to developing countries , and it is easy to imagine that other new methods will be introduced as well .
30 This point needs to be developed to incorporate the discussion by Wood of ‘ disarticulated ’ capitalism under colonial and post-colonial conditions , a discussion which suggests it is false to conclude that pure capitalism had become established by colonialism .
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