Example sentences of "[coord] [subord] [pers pn] is [adj] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is sufficient if he is shown to be intentionally using violence or if he is aware that his conduct may be violent . |
| 2 | This possibility needs consideration where the man was well known to the woman and where it is clear that she was not intimidated . ’ |
| 3 | And although he is adamant that the hardware business will not be run down , he did say that in future the firm will carefully weigh up whether it is more more cost-effective to manufacture products and components itself or buy them on the open market . |
| 4 | Hilton describes imagination as serving understanding when the need arises and although he is clear that the imaginative faculty is dependent on physical experience in a way in which mystical experience of God is not , he none the less saw it as able to precipitate a more spiritual understanding . |
| 5 | Both sides seemed satisfied and although it is unlikely that a two-tier Champagne classification would have been workable in the long term , it sufficed for the present although it was still being debated in the Senate when war broke out three years later . |
| 6 | And although it is true that Wagner could , if required , have figured under various of their headings , it seems that the decision to lay any emphasis on the relevance of Wagner 's work to his own ideas represented a further and final development . |
| 7 | Theodore 's reconciliation with Wilfrid took place in the context of Caedwalla 's dramatic ascendancy in southern England and if it is true that he expressed the wish that Wilfrid succeed him at Canterbury ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 43 ) this may have been in recognition of Caedwalla 's new regime with which Wilfrid was associated . |
| 8 | If this is indeed so , and if it is true that the latency period is in decline as an important cultural phenomenon , then it seems difficult not to conclude that in some very significant respects modern Western child-rearing practices are approximating more to those of pre-Neolithic , pre-agricultural societies like those of the Australian aborigines than to modern industrial ones . |
| 9 | It is perhaps noteworthy that two chroniclers refer to the plague of 1361 as the pestis puerorum , the plague of the children , and if it is true that children in particular had perished in that outbreak , it could be that by the early 1370s the supply of labour was being reduced by a shortage of new recruits , particularly as the survivors of 1361 would also have been attacked by another outbreak in 1369 . |
| 10 | And if it is clear that they have exercised their right of choice , problems can still arise in determining what precisely they have chosen . |
| 11 | But until industry giants — and key strategic partners — Microsoft Corp and Novell join the alliance , and until it is satisfied that its customer demand is sufficient Hewlett is unlikely to become closely involved in the initiative . |
| 12 | It is very important that a peace-keeping force should not be sent to Yugoslavia until there is a peace to keep , and until it is clear that all the warring parties both invite and allow that peace-keeping force to operate . |
| 13 | The principal difficulty is that it is quite clear that the texts of the classical jurists have not been left as they were written ; and since it is clear that Justinian was keen on enforcement in all circumstances , it is hard to decide whether we should take all reference to it to be a product of his ardour , or the more extreme cases of public interest to be acceptable classical examples . |
| 14 | Both are limiting laws , valid only for small strains or rates of strain , and while it is essential that conditions involving large stresses , leading to eventual mechanical failure , be studied , it is also important to examine the response to small mechanical stresses . |
| 15 | The greater landowners would also employ other gentlemen servants in the management of their estates in the early eighteenth century , some of whom might be freeholders , and all of whom would have connections with the voting freeholders , and while it is true that some of these appointments were poorly paid , one has to bear in mind the comparative poverty of so many of the Scottish gentry in terms of money income . |
| 16 | We have already mentioned that strikes need not be damaging to individual firms ; and while it is true that the economy as a whole can be damaged by certain groups of workers ( eg. power workers , miners and transport workers ) , relatively few groups actually have this kind of muscle . |
| 17 | That is not the case , and while it is true that deaf people from different countries can converse with each other better than hearing folk , they all have their own signs and structure . |
| 18 | For many , ‘ law ’ and ‘ order ’ refer to the ideal of legality ( or ‘ the rule of law ’ ) — and while it is clear that this does not refer to an uncontroversial notion , it is arguable that most people would agree on certain core features of the rule of law : a congruence of official action with a previously declared rule so as to preserve individual autonomy and freedom from arbitrary state power , and a notion of equal treatment of individuals in the eye of the law . |
| 19 | In a case involving a sum of money the property of a foreign state and whether it is proper that it should be paid to a firm of solicitors whose authority to act on behalf of that state is in question , the court should , with the assistance of an amicus if necessary , decline to make an order for the payment out of a sum in court to a firm of solicitors without being satisfied of the authority of that firm of solicitors . |
| 20 | I can not go beyond what I have said , except to make it clear once again that if and when it is clear that a further legislative change will materially assist in ensuring that this sort of thing does not happen again , we will be ready to make it . |
| 21 | ‘ It is with trifles and when he is off-guard that a man best reveals his character . ’ |
| 22 | He assured Lord Salisbury on his visit to England in the summer of 1929 that ( according to Salisbury 's notes of their conversation ) , though dominion status might be admitted as the ultimate goal , ‘ inasmuch as it is impossible to anticipate an India which could defend itself , and as it is unthinkable that a British army could be subject to native control — an essential condition of real Dominion status — the realisation of the aspiration is not within sight ’ . |
| 23 | There is evidence for some geological activity on Venus , and though it is unlikely that Plate Tectonics ever got going this conclusion is not yet beyond doubt . |
| 24 | But if it is inconceivable that he could successfully shepherd nervous unionists through new talks with their nationalist counterparts and Dublin , equally his head can not be sacrificed in a Labour-Unionist deal to take Neil Kinnock to Downing Street . |
| 25 | But if it is true that change is not always linear , then surely even the average candidate must know this , if he is to understand the concept of change . |
| 26 | We have no way of measuring the immediate impact of this writing on Jewish readers because we have no document we can safely date about 300 B.C. But if it is true that Kohelet , Ecclesiastes , wrote in the early third century B.C. , one must acknowledge that at least one of the Jewish sages was not prepared to play the part the Greeks had assigned to him . |
| 27 | But while it is true that an economic or financial crisis will generally have a clear effect on a state 's coinage , the converse is not necessarily true : a debasement of the coinage does not in itself indicate a financial crisis , since it might take place for some other reason . |
| 28 | But while it is true that some Tory rebels would oppose any motion proposed by the Prime Minister , it is worth remembering that the vote is still about the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 29 | But while it is true that such a division is discernible , it is also true that the goal is in sight from the start . |