Example sentences of "[adj] [is] [that] [ex0] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there were murmurs of dissent from Labour when he said : ‘ What is clear is that there was no question of impropriety . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Last year there were 316,000 visitors to the sites that we police — and what is heartening is that there was not one single complaint against us , ’ emphasised Hugh . |
| 3 | The reason for this is that there are now two ways of getting your council 's blessing to proceed with the work you have in mind . |
| 4 | A necessary condition of this is that there has been sufficient money to enable it to function ( barely true for instance in Zaire , and parts of Nigeria and Tanzania in the 1980s ) , and that civil strife has been contained , sometimes ruthlessly . |
| 5 | The effect of this is that there is a slow but steady conversion of mantle material into continental crust , and therefore a steady net increase in the volume of continental crust . |
| 6 | This is that there was no insolvency , but the testator had given the object he later left under trust as a pledge to a creditor to secure a loan . |
| 7 | Item — The most mysterious aspect of this is that there is no evidence that when the King came to the Council meeting he intended to leave but decided to do so there and then . |
| 8 | The significance of this is that there is a huge body of Conservative opinion in the country , not just Westminster , which is so disgusted with the ungentlemanly way in which the Toff 's Party behaved towards the lady that they will abstain . |
| 9 | The Thera-vada deduction from this is that there is no self . |
| 10 | The consequence of all this is that there are considerable social pressures towards increased educational provision . |
| 11 | One outcome of this is that there is not a single national daily or Sunday newspaper which supports any political position further left than the Right of the Labour Party , while the great majority of newspapers not only openly support the Conservative Party but also purvey a range of typically Right-wing attitudes which extend far beyond the relatively narrow confines of purely party politics . |
| 12 | The result of all this is that there are two subsets of /Ε/; with very different potentials for variation . |
| 13 | The sum total of all this is that there is a black-out , a closed interface , for all Western printed news , scientific , technical and medical journals and books . |
| 14 | The implication of this is that there is more scope for innovation and change in Europe than there is in the UK . |
| 15 | One indicator of this is that there is a branch of Lloyds Bank at this point and after this the shops are generally a mixture of restaurants and speciality shops ( see fig 2 ) . |
| 16 | One of the reasons for this is that there are six cats living in this house . |
| 17 | The logical conclusion of all this is that there can no longer be a justification for the massive nuclear arsenals held by both sides , that only the absolute minimum of nuclear defence is required and that , because President Yeltsin , too , now has his finger on the nuclear button , we should now be doing business with him on this issue as on so many others . |
| 18 | Clearly there is no complete consensus regarding the effects of emotional arousal on memory , the reason for this is that there is no single simple relationship which holds for all types and degrees of arousal on all types of memory performance . |
| 19 | What we have so strongly on this is that there are now over twenty eight thousand |
| 20 | And the counter-arguments to this is that there is n't lack of information , people know they 're not going to get a job , but they 're still better off to move , so that 's a rubbish theory . |
| 21 | The advantage of this is that there is now a great deal of choice at competitive prices . |
| 22 | But is , is , I mean w w what we 've said so far is that the problem with this is that there is n't enough land and therefore it encroaches on the middle peasant and , and that 's the problem , that 's the reason you had to change your policy . |
| 23 | But you do have to arrange a time with them but the benefit of this is that there will be a tutor to assist you . |
| 24 | Perhaps the strongest is that there are species in which some females reproduce sexually , and others by parthenogenesis : if there was not a short-term advantage to sex , the parthenogenetic females would long ago have replaced the sexual ones . |
| 25 | One is that any attempt to draw a line between the meaning of a word and ‘ encyclopaedic ’ facts concerning the extra-linguistic referents of the word would be quite arbitrary ; another is that there is no motivation for isolating ‘ pragmatic meaning ’ as a separate domain of lexical meaning . |
| 26 | 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 … |
| 27 | The second is that there were variations by team which reinforced what our interviews and observations had identified , namely , that different philosophies prevailed — the two city teams being developmental ‘ purists ’ , Bassetlaw championing an ‘ integrated casework and development ’ model and the others taking up intermediate positions . |
| 28 | The first is that the author , a lifeboat supporter , is donating a substantial amount of the cover price to RNLI funds , and the second is that there are links in the text with the lifeboat service , more particularly in the section dealing with the aircraft 's crashes in the sea . |
| 29 | The second is that there may be slightly different circumstances in which it remains true , but a no longer believes it . |
| 30 | The second is that there is no alternative to proceeding with its ratification . |