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

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1 It is undeniable that a great deal of important and fundamental research has come from the several centres of excellence in the USA .
2 It is possible that a greater difference would have emerged if we had been able to age-match the Crohn 's disease and control groups , as age has been shown to be inversely correlated with intestinal blood volume .
3 The question in the 1959 survey was open-ended , and it is possible that the great increase in preparedness to act is an artefact of the changed method of question administration .
4 It is clear that a great deal of ley hunting done over the past 50 years has been hunting chance alignments .
5 Only one of the statutes accords the title of gentleman to landowners of this magnitude , yet it is clear that a great many , if not most of them , laid claim to the style even at the risk of carrying a bigger sail than they could bear .
6 It is clear that the greatest of them had beliefs about their relationship to and responsibility for their subjects different from those of their seventeenth or early eighteenth-century predecessors .
7 In the first place it is noticeable that the great theme of his two Councils was the same as that of the Roman Council of 1059 , when the first effective legislation on clerical celibacy was initiated : it almost seems as if this subject had matured in his mind since that date ; certainly his early Deploratio virginitatis male amissae suggests that he may have had cause for thought on this subject .
8 There are , of course , masterpieces in the collection , by Pierino da Vinci ( no.72 ) , Giovanni Francesco Susini ( no.94 ) , Georg Petel ( no. 361 ) , Edward Pierce ( no.559 ) and Louis-François Roubiliac ( no.565 ) , but it is likely that the greatest nuggets of information will be found in the entries on the more modest sculptures , which are so often difficult to find out about .
9 Generally , it is likely that the greater the uncertainty , the greater will be the preference for liquidity , and the greater the risk of tying money up in risky assets .
10 When being questioned by magistrates about her teaching ( they were suspicious of her on the grounds of her sex and lack of social position ) she is confident that a greater Lord will answer for her .
11 It is encouraging that a great deal of emphasis is placed on aspects of plan preparation , whether this be the research or the surveying , since knowing your facts is vital before organising action .
12 It is evident that the greater the difference in tastes and preferences , the greater the welfare losses .
13 In the informal interview it is apparent that a great deal depends on the skill of the interviewer , and perhaps two interviewers might get different responses from the same person in interviews purporting to cover the same topics .
14 It is certain that a great deal of such duplication has gone on , all over the chromosomes , and throughout geological time .
15 Whatever was in Lenin 's mind , it is certain that the great Famine of 1921–2 wiped out any likelihood of peasant resistance .
16 It is true that the greater mathematical physicist Maxwell referred to them when making use ( separately ) of the " scalar " and " vector " parts of a quaternion , but the vector calculus of Gibbs and Heaviside ( in the 1880s ) seemed to suit the physicists better .
17 Moreover , whilst it is true that the great popularity of the environmental improvements in the centres has turned attention towards restraining traffic in other areas , it is also clear that as car ownership and use rises , there is no political consensus for banning cars in the rest of the city .
18 It is true that the great width is only to be found in the first part of the new route but that is enough .
19 It is significant that the great teenage rebellions of the 1960s and much of the counterculture came from those very middle-class families that had practised and encouraged self-fulfilment and personal autonomy .
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