Example sentences of "is [adv] that [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not , stresses Pavitt , that the UK has abruptly ceased to invest in computer hardware and software in the current recession , it is rather that companies which invest prudently , for example , in a better accounts receivable system to improve their cash flow , are likely to outweigh the number of competitive advantage go-getters . |
| 2 | It is right that students be initiated into the conceptual apparatus , skills and ways of going on within the teacher 's own discipline ; and it is right that students therefore acquire the discipline required for the necessary understanding and competencies . |
| 3 | It is right that students be initiated into the conceptual apparatus , skills and ways of going on within the teacher 's own discipline ; and it is right that students therefore acquire the discipline required for the necessary understanding and competencies . |
| 4 | While the above judgment confirms what the Society and , presumably , its members have understood all along , it is right that members should be notified about the matter . |
| 5 | He is right that parents as well as young people should know the dangers , and I will refer my hon. Friend 's suggestions to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department . |
| 6 | Of course he is right that funerals are often rather gloomy , and it can be quite a bore to visit people in hospital . |
| 7 | So I think the scenario within , within the Health Service is basically that units , rather than working together , working in with each other , are actually competing to achieve contracts to , to , to secure work . |
| 8 | This arises not only from potential changes of field ( where student preferences are not guaranteed — the contractual baseline is merely that students are enabled to complete the fields upon which they originally registered ) but more significantly from the changing pattern of extra-field choice . |
| 9 | If the content of a putatively infallible belief is merely that things are looking that way to me now , there is clearly less room for error than if I were to risk the belief that that way is pink . |
| 10 | It is not necessary to establish loss or injury to an individual or a group ; it is enough that losses are sustained . |
| 11 | This is so that members of the public will know who they are talking to . |
| 12 | Head to visitor : " The purpose of school uniform is so that pupils have a pride in belonging to the school . " |
| 13 | If convention is silent there is no law , and the force of that negative claim is exactly that judges should not then pretend that their decisions flow in some other way from what has already been decided . |
| 14 | The assumption here is that ‘ when [ a driver ] happens to feel subjective risk or fear he often tends immediately to eliminate this feeling by certain behavioural changes ’ ( Summala , 1976 , p.239 ) , a major cause of accidents is thus that drivers have too high a ‘ subjective risk threshold ’ . |
| 15 | It is not that women are no good at chemistry . |
| 16 | It is not that students , or staff for that matter , lack ideas for what might be possible . |
| 17 | It is not that students will get turned off by being given unconnected dollops of philosophy and sociology , and it is not that bringing in specialists in philosophy and sociology will lead to an incoherent curriculum , although both are true . |
| 18 | It is not that writers invaded universities . |
| 19 | My message is not that teachers ought to quit complaining and make the best of a bad job . |
| 20 | It is not that teachers in our primary schools dislike teaching bright children . |
| 21 | It is not that boys go out on a Saturday night looking for milk bottles or other things to smash . |
| 22 | What is important is not that members of the capitalist class participate directly in the state apparatus , but that the relation between bourgeoisie and state is ‘ objective ’ . |
| 23 | Our desire is not that others might be relieved while you are hard pressed , but that there might be equality . |
| 24 | We all think it wrong to inflict pain gratuitously , but our reason for obeying this principle is not that others do . |
| 25 | The point is not that companies are ideal mechanisms for making decisions which have important social effects ( in the sense that we would choose them for this purpose other considerations being equal ) . |
| 26 | It is not that parents occasionally , and doubtless understandably , have to switch off the seemingly inexhaustible stream of ‘ whys ’ . |
| 27 | The problem is not that parents want to spike the afternoon but that they do not think . |
| 28 | It is not that Egyptians have found a sudden enthusiasm for Islamic fundamentalism ; a majority probably resents the terrorism that has chopped tourism in half . |
| 29 | The point then is not that reforms will necessarily fail in their objective of furthering the public good ( though this is normally supposed ) , but that interference in company affairs for that purpose is morally impermissible . |
| 30 | It is not that men in management — MIM s as they are labelled by the pages of popular business handbooks — are unused to talk of a corporate future marked by chaos , turmoil , and ‘ reality turned upside down ’ . |