Example sentences of "is [adv] [verb] that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is widely assumed that different ICUs can be compared by the ratio of actual mortality to that predicted by the APACHE score . |
| 2 | It is widely accepted that vast amounts of police time are wasted by calling constables unnecessarily as court witnesses but the problem has so far proved intractable . |
| 3 | But for those in Japan who do achieve a more secure status it is widely accepted that such benefits are unlikely to be renewed if the individual moves to another company . |
| 4 | It is widely accepted that new members of the research community deserve careful initiation , socialisation and accreditation . |
| 5 | In particular , it is widely recognised that behavioural methods often result in relatively rigid language patterns , and that subsequent generalisation beyond training sessions and the spontaneous combination of taught elements into novel combinations continue to be problematic . |
| 6 | It is widely recognised that agricultural resources produce far more than a supply of raw foodstuffs . |
| 7 | At the European level it is widely believed that common standards will allow an expanded internal market to be developed and thus facilitate the economies of scale considered necessary for effective competition against foreign manufacturers . |
| 8 | Although it is widely agreed that successful innovations need to couple R&D , manufacturing , and marketing activities to ensure that new products can be manufactured at reasonable cost and are attractive to consumers , it is not completely obvious that this means that all three activities always need to be conducted under the same roof . |
| 9 | But it is widely expected that further heads will have to roll if the discredited Communist Party is to retrieve the situation . |
| 10 | To deny that these clear and generally accepted principles apply to nuclear weapons is effectively to say that these weapons are outside international law , that nuclear weapons in themselves abolish international law . |
| 11 | Adorno argues that with Beethoven the potential of music is so raised that older assumptions are shattered . |
| 12 | Although it is obviously hoped that these accounts will be interesting as economic history , whatever they reveal about the working and role of government may also be relevant and applicable today . |
| 13 | It is generally conceded that such words have at least a Component of meaning that resists truth-conditional treatment ( Grice , 1975 ; Wilson , 1975 ; Levinson , 1979b ) . |
| 14 | However , it is generally recognised that economic considerations are undoubtedly important in shaping the changes which have occurred within existing structures over the course of time since collective bargaining itself is an evolving social institution . |
| 15 | In 1912 Edison introduced the compatible ‘ Blue Amberol ’ records made of an even tougher plastic ; and it is generally accepted that Blue Amberols had a better , higher fidelity performance than any other medium before the First World War . |
| 16 | Many claims are received in respect of cigarette burns to furniture , carpets etc. and although there has been no actual ‘ fire ’ , it is generally accepted that such claims can be considered as fire damage . |
| 17 | It is generally accepted that large numbers of people evaded the attention of the enumerators on that occasion and that if allowance is made for under-recording the total should be raised to about 9·2 millions . |
| 18 | It is generally assumed that international forces have a great influence on the UK so that it is the international economy which determines the character of the crossroads now facing the UK . |
| 19 | Lampreys and hagfishes lack a differentiated stomach , and it is generally assumed that all agnathans were similarly microphagous with no need for a stomach . |
| 20 | It is generally assumed that all spreadsheets will benefit from fast calculation but this is n't necessarily so . |
| 21 | It is generally assumed that both texts on British Library Additional MS 23986 are preserved there as fragments of longer originals , and this is certainly true of the Anglo-Norman ballad first written on the roll . |
| 22 | It is generally agreed that these redshifts are caused by the expansion of the Universe . |
| 23 | It is generally agreed that retail investors need a far higher level of supervision because of their lack of knowledge and because of the severe consequences of loss . |
| 24 | This is not to say that economic relationships always constitute the main bases of inequality in a society . |
| 25 | This is not to say that economic imperatives play no part in penal developments . |
| 26 | Yet this is not to say that lexical decisions should always be left open until the end of the utterance , as in HARPY . |
| 27 | This is not to say that nationalized industries might not be capable of earning enough revenues to pay that debt ( far from it ) but that the Government will not need a published balance sheet to assess financial viability . |
| 28 | This is not to say that financial reports should be restricted to financial measures , of course , only that in practice they are . |
| 29 | However , this is not to say that many forms of life have not been able to adapt to life on slopes up to the 10,000-ft ( 3,050 m ) level , and in some cases higher . |
| 30 | 111.9 ) , although this is not to say that such illustrations were never used ( note the ignorant copying of inscriptions in the Rudston Venus mosaic : pI . |