Example sentences of "is [adj] that [pron] is [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between 1193 and 1201 it is possible that he is to be identified with a master Elias , steward to Gilbert de Glanville , bishop of Rochester [ q.v. ] , a close friend and kinsman of Hubert Walter . |
| 2 | It is clear that what is at issue here is more than geographical inequalities in the pattern of employment and unemployment , even in their broader social implications . |
| 3 | Although the accident estimate could logically be independent of the actual exemplar of the junction that a subject was shown it is clear that it is in fact strongly related to the risk rating given to particular exemplars . |
| 4 | It is interesting that it is in the work of a woman , Julian of Norwich , that Mary 's female willingness to be open to receive embodies that attitude which lies at the heart of contemplative experience . |
| 5 | The frailty of human memory is such that it is by no means uncommon for a delegate to criticize fiercely the very rule for which he himself was responsible a year or two before ! |
| 6 | For the Christian today it is obvious that it is in time spent alone with God in reading the Bible , meditating on the words of Jesus , listening to God , that we will be impressed by particular truth . |
| 7 | Tamburlaine is confident that he is in control of his destiny because he believes it is his fate . |
| 8 | However , it is unlikely that he is to be identified with Lothar , colleague of the great Romanist Pillius , whom the convent of Canterbury sought to enlist in June or July 1187 in the course of their great struggle with the archbishop . |
| 9 | It is important that it is on the record in the context of Sinn Fein 's reaction to the attack that occurred on Saturday that I understand that its president , Mr. Adams , when asked last night , specifically refused to condemn the bombing . |
| 10 | SCREEN goddess Liz Taylor is furious that she is to be portrayed by Raquel Welch , the star she dislikes more than any other , in a film . |
| 11 | ( 1 ) Where on a complaint being made to a licensing board by any person or body mentioned in section 16(1) of this Act the board is satisfied that it is in the public interest to do so , it may , in accordance with the provisions of this section , suspend a licence . |
| 12 | Not until the 1880s did ‘ social purity ’ have any major legislative purchase ; and it is significant that it is from this period that the earliest critiques of ‘ Victorianism ’ stem . |