Example sentences of "is that [pers pn] be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , he admits , ‘ our great strength and biggest weakness is that we are involved in every form of animal welfare ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ What comes through strongly is that we are good at communicating in one direction — the Courtaulds message is getting across , ’ said , deputy director of Human Resources . |
| 3 | ‘ What I meant was , , said the oldest son , ‘ is that we are free at last . |
| 4 | The evidence of the surgeon is that we are concerned with ‘ minutes rather than hours ’ and that it is a ‘ life and death ’ situation . |
| 5 | The reality is that we are conservative in our appreciation of others ' abilities and we are reticent and uncertain about our own . |
| 6 | Because what makes the Horde potentially extraordinary is that they 're one of the handful of Irish acts outside the inner star circle genuinely possessed of an unquenched desire to be more than musical tradesmen . |
| 7 | Whatever it is that they 're deficient in . |
| 8 | One of the things that besets people in television is that they 're obsessed by it . |
| 9 | Now as I said , I 'm perfectly aware that the only proper and permissible response on the part of any young climber worth his or her salt to any views that I might hold , is that they 're those of an irredeemably antiquated never-was-been . |
| 10 | Although no separate figures are yet available on short-term care facilities , the consensus is that they are inadequate at the present time . |
| 11 | But they differ from private enterprise in that their defining characteristic , indeed the rationale for their existence , is that they are subject to some form of political control . |
| 12 | The answer is that they are dissatisfied with themselves . |
| 13 | Indeed , he does not seem to be aware that it exists : ‘ All Darwinism has to say about such miracles is that they are due to chance . ’ |
| 14 | The rule as now settled is that they are inadmissible in order to show what the committee thought its proposals meant , but admissible under the rule in Heydon 's case to the extent that they show the mischief against which the Act was directed . |
| 15 | The service conception establishes that the point of having authorities is that they are better at complying with the dependent reasons . |
| 16 | The feeling at the moment is that they are sympathetic towards us , and they do n't see any difficulty in that as yet , but no one is prepared to put their hand up and say yes go ahead and spend the money in that way . |
| 17 | The immediate significance of this is that they are eligible for discount at the Bank of England . |
| 18 | The problem with these models is that they are inductive in nature : they derive from analysis of a set of data which may , or may not , be characteristic of the whole universe of discourse . |
| 19 | The problem with all ongoing lists is that they are liable to be out of date almost from the day they are compiled . |
| 20 | The price intellectuals pay is that they are dependent on the government for both professional and financial recognition , since ‘ the most important definition of an intellectual is that he should be recognised by the government as such ’ ( Riding : 1986 , p. 428 ) . |
| 21 | Surely it is in order for Conservative Members to put various policy options to the Prime Minister , and surely what really provoked the rabble opposite to make such a din is that they are embarrassed at the sound of their own policies . |
| 22 | As with the indecent assaults on males , the predominant feature of these reports is that they are concerned with men abusing their positions of trust rather than being some unknown sex beasts who are assaulting victims not known to them prior to the offence . |
| 23 | In short , the characteristic feature of human beings , as the early symbolic interactionists such as Mead emphasised long ago , is that they are self-aware in a sense in which other animals are not . |
| 24 | The reason for their notoriety is that they are complicated by a number of factors others than real changes in the levels of crime . |
| 25 | One possibility is that they are blind to the spatial properties of the stimuli and that they can distinguish horizontal from vertical only because the two stripe-patterns activate different classes of motion detectors ; that is , detectors of the vertical motion will be stimulated best when a bee approaches or moves past horizontal stripes , whereas the signature of vertical stripes will be a discharge from detectors of horizontal motion . |
| 26 | They are simple to install , for all that is required is that they be level from side to side , and with the lip protruding sufficiently to enable the full body of water to be emptied into the pool rather than on to the surrounding ground ( Fig. 9 ) . |
| 27 | They are simple to install ; all that is required is that they be level from side to side , and with the lip of the lowest basin protruding sufficiently so that the water empties directly into the pool water and not on to the edging of the pool . |
| 28 | What matters to us is that they were independent of each other and , to the best of our knowledge , ignored each other . |
| 29 | Well , basically her problem is that she is afraid of nobody . |
| 30 | ‘ One of Tessa 's greatest qualities is that she 's brilliant at making a home , not a pretty home , although they usually are , but a real home . |