Example sentences of "is that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason is that hardened Staffordshire smokers ( and they come no harder ) have taken to the Nicotine patch and are driving their colleagues mad with frozen smiles and cries of : ‘ I 'm all right — I 've gone 73-and-a-quarter hours without one ’ . |
| 2 | In short , the law is unclear , though perhaps the better view is that subjective knowledge is required . |
| 3 | And the second thing is that repossessed houses very very quickly begin to look dirty and battered . |
| 4 | The explicit or implicit argument is that elderly people have experienced a constriction of economic liberty in modern Britain because of the sometimes deliberate and sometimes unconscious course of development of social welfare and employment policies . |
| 5 | The significance of this result is that broad bean pollen is completely devoid of carotenoids , and some of these chemicals are the physiological precursors of vitamin A. |
| 6 | If it be objected that no beginning writer shops around in this way among the idioms handed down to him from the past , the evidence is that certain beginning writers do shop around in just this way ; Ezra Pound was one of them , and he is by no means so exceptional as is supposed . |
| 7 | Moreover , with the microfiche databases available on subscription and therefore immediately accessible to subscribers , the effect is that certain types of straightforward database searches are less necessary on individual demand . |
| 8 | Speed humps can do this , whereas the evidence is that present methods do not . |
| 9 | The upshot is that small areas of the boundary layer are turbulent . |
| 10 | The result is that ordinary motorists can now get the cars of their dreams for a song , and they could even end up being a good little earner . |
| 11 | The result is that ordinary motorists can now pick them up at the more respectable auctions for less than the price of an everyday family car . |
| 12 | The pessimistic conclusion is that electoral democracy can only survive by not tackling major social injustices and alienating powerful interest groups in society — in which case the poor will , in the long run , not consider democracy worth supporting . |
| 13 | Whatever the cause , the immediate consequence is that personal sector lending to the public sector has fallen . |
| 14 | A second point to be noted in this , and in a large number of other conversational fragments , is that personal topics are frequently introduced through first person reference in one form or another . |
| 15 | The worrying fact is that serious over-use is drying up some of our rivers and natural underground water levels . |
| 16 | My view is that international players must understand that their behaviour for clubs is just as important as when they play for England . ’ |
| 17 | A not-surprising result is that low market share coupled with high capital intensity spells disaster . |
| 18 | In any case , if enterprise zones are the model , the overwhelming evidence is that financial incentives have proved the driving force , and that liberalized planning regimes have been of limited significance . |
| 19 | The fact is that cognitive neuropsychologists have significantly increased our understanding of the effects of brain injury on behaviour by conceptualizing mental processes in purely functional terms without regard to their subjective qualities or to physiology . |
| 20 | The second assumption is that additional tax relief will indeed increase the level of giving . |
| 21 | The most obvious fact is that real problems are rare . |
| 22 | The evidence is that primary safety improvements , like studded tyres , better acceleration and so on , encourages more cautious driving . |
| 23 | The sad fact is that dolphin-friendly labels were a commercial decision by companies looking to protect their profits , not dolphins . " |
| 24 | The upshot is that incumbent governments tend to remain incumbent even when they have not got things arranged as conveniently as they would like . |
| 25 | The result is that young adults , themselves seeking a separate sexual and personal identity , are resisting the way of life lived and promoted by their parents . |
| 26 | A more long-term effect is that over-exposed skin will age and wrinkle prematurely , and will thicken to take on a leathery look . |
| 27 | The Cecchini Report does not have much to say on this issue , but the implication of such a policy is that monetary policies would need to be co-ordinated to prevent the growth of monetary instability . |
| 28 | Indeed we will see that the outcome of the Keynesian view is that monetary policy should be directed at interest rates , rather than the money supply , but that in any case monetary policy should be subsidiary to fiscal policy . |
| 29 | There are certain routine practices , customs and procedures in our society whose consequence is that black people have poorer jobs , health , housing , education and life chances than do the white majority . |
| 30 | The reason is that hot water causes the pipes to expand to a greater extent than copper and at higher temperatures it can soften slightly and consequently ‘ sag ’ between supports . |