Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is rather implausibly said that Christian Doppler himself demonstrated his effect by hiring a brass band to play on an open railway truck as it rushed past his amazed audience . |
| 2 | As a result , our eyesight is so well developed that few animals possess comparable vision , and we are justified in considering it our supersense . |
| 3 | In the large public company it is now accepted as part of conventional wisdom that the shareholding is so widely dispersed that each shareholder does not own a significant enough proportion of the company to perform any of the functions of monitoring and supervising the directors that the legal model casts upon him . |
| 4 | It is perhaps implicitly assumed that each franchise chain has little market power . |
| 5 | It is not widely known that Old FF keeps a diary . |
| 6 | It is not universally accepted that these cross-relationship situations are integral to sexual development . |
| 7 | Although it is not explicitly stated that this sea-monster was the father of eponymous founder of the Merovingian dynasty , that is clearly the impression which Fredegar intended to give . |
| 8 | This is fairly well known , but it is not commonly realized that synthetic detergents are affected deleteriously by the hardness of the water , although not to the same extent as soaps . |
| 9 | I was grateful to the hon. Gentleman for raising that , because it is not often realised that such claims can be made up to three months before the person enters care , although I am aware that the circumstances do not always allow that . |
| 10 | It is not often recalled that one of the Trust 's earliest acquisitions , in 1909 , was the cottage at Nether Stowey where the poet Coleridge wrote ‘ The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ’ and began his visionary epic ‘ Kubla Khan ’ . |
| 11 | In Italy some development in the south has occurred , though it is of a fragile and unbalanced nature , and it is not seriously suggested that this area is yet capable of self-sustained growth . |
| 12 | It is still instinctively held that those involved in engineering science should be useful handymen and will have oil on their hands . |
| 13 | The finding of anaemia at presentation in almost half our patients is worth noting as it is still widely taught that this is an indicator of chronic rather than acute renal failure . |
| 14 | However , it is also well known that social stereotyping of [ h ] -loss does not apply in Scotland , Ireland , North America and colonial Englishes generally , for the reason that [ h ] is stable in stressed syllables in these varieties ( although [ h ] -loss is found in English-based Creoles ) . |
| 15 | It is now generally accepted that this meeting was the first step on the unpremeditated road which led to the establishment of the London Veterinary College . |
| 16 | It is now generally agreed that some kind of predisposition to schizophrenia is inherited , but that certain environmental factors will increase the likelihood that the disorder will occur and recur . |
| 17 | It is now well known that distant galaxies are probably about 10 times farther away than Hubble inferred . |
| 18 | Surprising though it may seem , although it is now well established that this is a serious problem with gliding , it is almost unknown in power flying circles or in the Air Force and it is taking many years to convince authorities . |
| 19 | It is now firmly established that effective provision for children with special educational needs is achieved by paying attention to the curricular , pastoral and self-enhancing aspects of the school . |
| 20 | It is now widely accepted that such headaches can be precipitated by foods as well as stress , the oral contraceptive Pill , and the build-up to a period . |
| 21 | It is now widely accepted that this was the main cause of the rise in population . |
| 22 | It is now widely recognized that all such attempts have failed , yet it continues to be assumed that the rational agent has somehow pulled himself up by his bootstraps out of reach of his own spontaneity . |
| 23 | In fact it is now widely recognized that some consumption expenditure of this type , in so far as it combats malnutrition , should be considered as equivalent to investment . |
| 24 | It is fairly universally accepted that Chinese is not related to any of the four other languages , so the similarity can not be because these words are cognate . |
| 25 | But it is surely generally accepted that some level of participation is necessary whatever approach to systems design and development is adopted . |
| 26 | It 's quite commonly said that twenty years ago the universities and colleges decided to treat students as adults and leave them to organise their own affairs erm and the argument about what to do in this area is n't an argument about whether it 's a serious problem , but about what are appropriate and even effective forms of intervention . |
| 27 | ‘ I think it 's pretty well known that some of the ones that are going to get a particularly close look are the ones I mentioned , either because they are not being competed in by a lot of people in a great many countries , or they are expensive , and so on . ’ |
| 28 | It is currently widely accepted that regional divergence in living standards within countries is the norm ( Bennett , 1980 , 67 ) . |
| 29 | Neither of these extreme dogma is applied rigorously today , but it is certainly still accepted that 2-D form makes good pattern . |