Example sentences of "is [adv] [adj] [verb] that a " in BNC.

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1 When using this definition the results of conventional designs seem so good that it is effectively impossible to show that a new design is significantly better than conventional ones .
2 I am not claiming that meat is indispensable for good health ; it is only necessary to show that a diet to which it contributes can be no less healthy than one from which it is excluded .
3 It is only necessary to add that a consistency checking procedure is also called .
4 Within the Duomo there is so much to see that a full inventory is impracticable .
5 In the case where an E is extended by qualification in order to provide a more suitable identification to an audience , as in ( 14 ) , it is entirely natural to assume that a P which does the qualifying — typically an attributive adjective , in traditional terms — will apply to or be valid for the entity identified by the whole pattern [ P E ] .
6 As a basis for this calculation it is perhaps appropriate to assume that a single sprinkler system should be capable of dealing with three fires simultaneously involving the operation of all sprinkler heads in any vertically-related sections in which they might occur .
7 It is perhaps dubious to argue that a prayer or worship becomes more efficacious if more people join in , but there is no doubt that man was created a social animal and ritual that is shared is ritual that becomes more meaningful .
8 It is perhaps possible to say that a particular child tends towards introversion and , further , that he or she is therefore more likely to engage with characters such as Tom in Philippa Pearce 's Tom 's midnight garden , Max in Pauline Clarke 's The twelve and the genii , or Tolly in Lucy Boston 's Green Knowe stories , than a more extrovert reader .
9 ( 2 ) It is generally acceptable to state that an offer will not be made for a particular period of time .
10 But the Murray committee is probably right to say that a minimum five-year experiment with a four-day game programme is now due .
11 Nevertheless it is probably fair to assume that a private customer 's needs will be for " standard " investments .
12 It is probably true to state that a country must achieve sustained increases in real GNP per capita to avoid social and political tension .
13 While artisans certainly had better opportunities than had most of the lower orders , it is probably unwise to insist that a very wide behavioural gap separated them from the " crowd " , at least until the last years of the eighteenth century .
14 Graduates , whom Smith classed as gentlemen , and men of £10 a year were privleged to dress like their betters ; it is also reasonable to infer that a sizeable proportion of those who feature in the various returns as minor landowners were in effect ex-officio gentlemen , qualified by tenure of lesser public appointments .
15 It is also important to realise that a number of flow production producers are moving towards a ‘ just-in-time ’ ( JIT ) system of production .
16 It is also important to remember that a single impairment may give rise to numerous disabilities .
17 And it is also important to ensure that a will is correctly witnessed .
18 It is as well to appreciate that a body in free fall from a fixed starting event will follow different geodesics if it is given different starting velocities .
19 The past decade has seen immense progress in elucidating the scientific basis for a proper discipline of programming : it is now possible to prove that a computer program meets its specification , in much the same way that mathematicians and engineers know how to prove the correctness of a proposed solution to the relevant differential equations .
20 It is even difficult to say that a very rich person could be compensated in money terms ; thus , however heinous the libel , such a person should get not more than a nominal sum and his costs .
21 For a classical lawyer this argument would be absurd : it is quite meaningless to state that a controversial disposition is valid because only intention is relevant .
22 It is quite another to say that an absence of a power of remit vested in the House is an insuperable barrier to the Court of Appeal exercising its own jurisdiction to relist .
23 Frequent supervision whilst the student attains proficiency is therefore necessary to ensure that a good technique is developed .
24 It is therefore possible to say that a standard Afghan Belouch , for example , will normally be comparable in price to a Yagcibedir , and both will usually be between a third and half the cost of a Russian Bokhara or Beshir .
25 It is therefore possible to argue that an analogy with child protection is misleading , since we do not assume that children should look after themselves .
26 It is therefore reasonable to suggest that a staging system might be devised which is based upon the type and genetic changes associated with conventional tumour stage and , more importantly , with survival .
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