Example sentences of "is that [noun] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tragedy of The Smiths is that Morrissey could only become the victim of the perfection of his style . |
| 2 | In short , the probability is that women will more often gain access to heroin through a male , frequently via a ‘ romantic relationship ’ , than any other social route . |
| 3 | With unemployment and general economic disarray on the rise , the feeling in the city is that things can only get worse . |
| 4 | The other side of the coin is that firms may now be hiring workers more quickly as demand picks up . |
| 5 | One of the detrimental effects that Professor Taylor has observed is that managers can no longer find the time to go on external training courses . |
| 6 | A phenomenon resulting only partly from use of the above technique is that figures can best be compared when arranged in columns since the eye can then relatively easily ignore unvarying digits and the brain can perform subtractions or divisions more readily . |
| 7 | The major stumbling block to the last of these is that solicitors can only be remunerated for advice under the green form scheme . |
| 8 | The argument developed in this chapter is that teachers can ill afford to take this blinkered attitude towards LMS , even if in doing so they appear to be adopting a coping strategy that enables them to focus on those aspects of their work that they see as most important . |
| 9 | What this means is that ships can now have some protection against guided bombs released from a great height . |
| 10 | One idea is that viruses can simply pass through the cell membrane , perhaps aided in some way by the receptor protein ( B 1 in Figure ) . |
| 11 | The balancing truth is that children can never know what parents owe to them . |
| 12 | The first and most important reason is that ketamine can readily induce a state of virtual helplessness , within the dose range normally taken by users , to a far greater extent than most other substances of abuse . |
| 13 | Another argument for legalisation of cannabis and other drugs is that criminals will no longer benefit from trafficking and individual sufferers will no longer need to commit crimes in order to obtain the money for their supply . |
| 14 | 17.17 An essential aspect of development in the secondary stages is that pupils should increasingly make their own decisions about their writing — what it is about , what form it should take and to whom it is addressed . |
| 15 | An essential element in our proposals for the secondary school is that pupils should increasingly make their own decisions about their writing : what it is about , what form it should take , and to whom it is addressed . |
| 16 | But the message of Christmas is that God will never leave us and his love will endure for ever , which makes Christmas a real celebration of God 's commitment to our world and makes sense of all our hopes and dreams . |
| 17 | My view is that thrombolysis should only be administered by personnel who are capable and competent at recognising the risks and complications , and also managing the patient thereafter . |
| 18 | His prime concern is that clients should never be ‘ overhatted , as in over-horsed ’ . |
| 19 | My Proposition , embracing The House of the Dead , Notes from Underground , Crime and Punishment , The Possessed , Karamazov , and , negatively , by way of relative failure , The Idiot , is that Dostoevsky could only promote his dearest values by creeping up on their blind side : in other words that he had an urge towards crisis and clarity which he could only satisfy by yielding it to the enemy — to the horror of the flogging routine in the ‘ Thy kingdom come ’ episode in the Dead House at one chronological extreme , and to Ivan Karamazov 's showdown with the Religion Swindle at the other . |
| 20 | An additional attraction of studying informatics is that graduates may now also achieve chartered engineer status through the British Computer Society , a body which has been nominated to register individuals with the Engineering Council . |
| 21 | The official French view is that BSE will inevitably spread to France , manifesting itself in " spontaneous " cases with an incubation period of between two and nine years . |
| 22 | An added reason why the bond market is about to become more lively is that banks will soon be allowed to set up securities subsidiaries and underwrite corporate issues . |
| 23 | The only change is that Metrologia will now market them as MI486 boxes , based on Intel technology . |