Example sentences of "is that [pron] [be] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Groups who 've got to know I B M over the er , years , will know that one further advantage of our concentration on specific areas for investment , is that we 're able to measure degrees of success rather more easily . |
| 2 | The thing that saddens me is that we 're supposed to have a T U C , that organization is supposed to draw together the various trade unions and what are we seeing , an ideal opportunity slipped from our grasp when the miners were facing the issue of jobs to public service workers should have linked up with the miners and we should have took the government on |
| 3 | It seems to me that the discussion right now is that we are all seeing all men hate all women ! |
| 4 | What makes this alarming is that we are all living longer and retiring earlier . |
| 5 | We have divorced ourselves from the landscape and the countryside and one of the implications of this is that we are apt to see our visits to ancient sites from the perspective of the tourist — as a spectacle . |
| 6 | What we do know , however , is that we were due to finalise proposed changes to the Mountaineering Instructors ' Certificate syllabus at the next meeting . |
| 7 | The idea behind playing chords such as those in figs 2–5 as double stops is that they are each played as a separate fingering . |
| 8 | What is particularly interesting about these experiments is that they are all based upon the theoretical and philosophical framework Allison has devised , in which he has identified four ‘ interactive and interdependent ’ domains : |
| 9 | The usual view is that they are all suffering from the same disease and yet it is plain that there are marked differences between the reaction of one patient to that of another . |
| 10 | The point is that they are unlikely to find answers to these questions neatly encapsulated in a few words , and so they are forced to be selective in what they read . |
| 11 | Auto-pattern adjustables ( used on cars ) and girder-pattern spanners have slightly different mechanisms , but both suffer from the same disadvantage as far as plumbing is concerned , which is that they are difficult to use on a pipe close to a wall . |
| 12 | The difficulty with habits is that they are difficult to change . |
| 13 | Nor would a suggestion that plaintiffs are poor — unless they are in business , and the implication is that they are unable to pay their debts . |
| 14 | Er , but the interesting , the interesting thing is that they are prepared to pay and yet this obsession this obsession with this ideology that the only way you can get you can go forward in in terms of er placing this this country in any economic status in the way it may have been and er is is to privatisation of V A T. Chairman I look forward to the day when when the very air and this has been said for that we breathe will either be privatised or more important they 'll stick a bloody V A T on it . |
| 15 | This might suggest that the major difficulty with closed class items is that they are harder to access than open class items . |
| 16 | The problem is that they are harder to measure and therefore justify , and that 's why hard-nosed finance people refuse to spend on environment and try to cut back training when it 's the last thing they should do . |
| 17 | One problem with certain variegated shrubs , especially those with soft leaves , is that they are liable to scorch in the sun . |
| 18 | The reason they have this versatility is that they are able to join up with no fewer than four other atoms at a time , to form chains or networks . |
| 19 | The appeal of unification grammars is that they are able to combine both linguistically theoretical and computationally tractable methods for processing language . |
| 20 | The general experience is that they are likely to prove most effective when applied on an area-wide basis , and with the additional objective of improving the quality of the environment . ’ |
| 21 | her book also contains a lot of dialogue which again I find really important because ‘ To Kill a Mockingbird ’ is a very emotional story , but what I especially like about Harper Lee 's style is that she is able to add a comical aspect to some of the more serious scenes . |
| 22 | The problem is that there 's little to offer in between ; high street quality seems almost a contradiction in terms . |
| 23 | Equally important are two more statements , first ( Thompson and McHugh 1990:362 ) : A further reason for not regarding the worlds of today and tomorrow as wholly sealed off from one another is that there is much to learn from the existing practice of employees … |
| 24 | He had realised that the refinement of distress is that you are obliged to suffer not just for yourself , which is the easier part , but for others as well . |
| 25 | Another assumption underlying the use of the first 10 methods listed above is that you are able to analyse carefully not merely what is going wrong but why . |
| 26 | The advantage of superimposing from within the colour section is that you are able to superimpose more than one garment piece on to the same colour pattern at the same time , providing there is enough room on the screen . |
| 27 | What makes it seem real is that you are able to change where you appear to be in the room . |
| 28 | There are hitches and hassles aplenty to contend with now and what makes it worse is that you 're powerless to do anything except grumble and grouse . |
| 29 | The only good thing about mistakes is that you 're supposed to learn from them — not go on making them ! ’ |
| 30 | A second objection that will be brought is that it is odd to treat another as a rational being , in the Kantian sense , in erotic relations , of all places . |