Example sentences of "is that [adj] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The politest thing one can say ’ , he said , ‘ is that that is the wisdom of hindsight by people who are not trained to know better in that area ’ . |
| 2 | Erm I have already referred sir to the investigations which are proceeding with regard to the ability to erm , as it were , encourage er this er amphibian to go to other ponds , and I would again call your attention to the state of the knowledge we have at the present time , which is that that is not possible . |
| 3 | As for the primacy of the police , the view of Ministers is that that is not in question . |
| 4 | The trouble is that that is not easily obtained . |
| 5 | But the harsh reality is that that is not the case . |
| 6 | What I 'm suggesting is is that that is perhaps something that the panel should dwell on in their deliberations and their advice to the county . |
| 7 | Erm , Mr Brighton was was critical of the County Council in just using the residual method to determine the size of the new settlement , er and then in in backing up that justification erm referred to work that is included in in Barton Willmore 's proof , I 've I have read this survey work quite carefully , and my understanding of it is is that erm by un undertaking a survey of settlements in the county , they have established , albeit f f f for information purposes only , a population threshold for a particular type of service , erm , in in the North Yorkshire context , erm the implication I I understand from that is is that that is being used to justify a fourteen hundred figure or or whatever it is to achieve the level of services that would would be required for a a balanced integrated community to use the words for the guidance . |
| 8 | So , what you have to argue is that that is not a confession . |
| 9 | But the fact of the matter is that that is n't Government policy . |
| 10 | My information is that that is the correct way er th the correct authority to which to look . |
| 11 | Well the obvious explanation is that that is the point that our modern hero , the connecting thread that runs through the whole design , can have none of the grandeur of the ancient one . |
| 12 | What these legislative reforms seem to be suggesting is that all is basically well with the traditional model where the directors of the company manage the company but are supervised in that task by the shareholders who , if given the requisite powers , can be relied upon to ensure that directors do not use their powers for their own purposes . |
| 13 | When building a corpus of text the general maxim is that bigger is better . |
| 14 | What the following thrillers have in common is that each is a rattling good read , and together they are the cream ( 1939 , as will be seen , being a particularly creamy year ) of their genre , leading you on to other delights . |
| 15 | This hardly looks the same principle , but the connection lies in the fact that for Kant the sense in which every person is an end is that each is a rational agent who , as such , should be conceived as potentially cooperating with me in settling upon and living by universal principles of behaviour taken as binding on all rational agents . |
| 16 | It is pretty clear that the reason Z fails in Z6 is that 6 is a composite integer . |
| 17 | The common view is that this is unthinkable and politically unacceptable . |
| 18 | But I think the critical issue of Black Monday and what 's happened since is that this is a very major change in the nature of the market place , but not in the underlying economies of countries , especially the UK . |
| 19 | What we also notice in the chapters dealing with the Fall , and in particular with Adam and Eve , is that this is not just a book by a scholar in a library . |
| 20 | The fact is that this is a prominent feature of the existing law , in which there are only two major offences ( rape and indecent assault ) and in which some 42 per cent of those charged with rape have a plea of guilty to indecent assault accepted by the court . |
| 21 | And our dilemma is that this is precisely what we do with it . |
| 22 | What Turing showed is that this is not a universal truth . |
| 23 | The joy of it all is that this is a resort which is peaceful — you can hear the Atlantic waves breaking on the seashore . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , my own belief is that this is not the case , but only further research will tell . |
| 25 | The first thing to say is that this is one of those things that can disappoint us . |
| 26 | More important is that this is the first example of a case in which a trust is set up using indirect words : the words are addressed to the trustee ; and they make the testator 's intentions plain enough , although they do not express any request for a transfer of property . |
| 27 | The basic trouble is that this is another example of approaching a situation whereby government ministers , for one reason or another , do not appear enthusiastic about using their powers . |
| 28 | One snag , of course , is that this is unlike shooting over truly open ground . |
| 29 | My view is that this is the work of the Holy Spirit , planting hundreds of small , vital congregations in schools , pubs , gyms ; wherever a hall can be hired . |
| 30 | The Prime Minister 's view is that this is one election in which the voters will keep the pollsters — and the rest of us — guessing until the end . |