Example sentences of "[is] [noun] that [prep] " in BNC.

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1 For the first time in many years there is hope that by means of the NHS and Community Care Act of 1990 , imperfect and incomplete though it may be , the fundamental organizational and financial changes needed to foster good community care have been made .
2 Right now what I shall do before you go any further is divide that at the side here , what those and minutes are as decimals of an hour
3 Since there is evidence that at least some quarrels are attempts to attract attention or are bids for the parents ' favour , make it clear from the outset that while you are not interested in hearing the details of arguments , or the telling of tales , you will not tolerate any hitting .
4 There is evidence that at times of stress many patients do not absorb verbal information and that a better quality of informed consent can be obtained by combining oral and written information as we did .
5 There is evidence that at least in some of the cases before us , the tariff period was fixed by a minister of state or a Parliamentary under-secretary of state .
6 Dietary fibre supplements have not been successful in the treatment of IBS as measured by double-blind trials , although there is evidence that at least 30 g of dietary fibre a day will improve constipation and some other symptoms .
7 There is evidence that for much of the Labour government 's period in office between 1974 and 1979 , the older urban cores were to receive greater support than other areas of the country ( Jackman and Sellars , 1977 ) .
8 But it was a book about hierarchy , and that is why it became of interest to Carolingian bishops , as there is evidence that within a decade it did .
9 There is evidence that in Britain this epoch has now arrived .
10 Certainly there is evidence that in the past sisters provided very significant amounts of practical , moral and sometimes financial support for each other ( Young and Willmott , 1957 ; Roberts , 1984 ) .
11 Whatever its normal role in language functions , there is evidence that in some cases , though not all perhaps , the right hemisphere participates in the recovery of language following aphasia .
12 As will be discussed in the following chapter there is evidence that in some circumstances arousal may in fact impair or systematically bias memory .
13 Yet — and here again the comparison with Venice seems particularly appropriate — there is evidence that in recent times those foundations of society have begun to crumble and decay so that , just like the Serenissima , society today faces ever higher spring tides of modernity which threaten to overwhelm the traditional basis of the social order , perhaps even to destroy it altogether .
14 Indeed , it is reasonable to ask the question whether irritable bowel syndrome is a disease of the motor side of bowel motility at all ; there is evidence that in some patients the abnormality is one of visceral sensation .
15 So confident is Autobacs that since April last year new franchisees have had to pay the firm a commission of 2% of sales .
16 After ten more lines of self-abasement to ‘ my sovereign ’ from ‘ a sad slave ’ it ends with the biting couplet : ‘ So true a fool is love that in your will , /Though you do anything , he thinks no ill . ’
17 Then I 'm going to do what is the proper thing to do which is chop that to size
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