Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [adv] [adj] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The London pilot scheme is proving so successful that Ru , 34 , and Nick , 33 , expect to make more than £8,000 this year . |
| 2 | Now he is churning out line with a 15lb breaking strain and it is proving so popular that he has now got rid of the old banger he had been driving around in for years and bought his first executive saloon . |
| 3 | A SHOP 'S vintage hangover cure is proving so popular that regular users are walking in off the streets to take it at £1 a shot . |
| 4 | The reason why it is considered so important that we should not make a commitment at this stage to join a single currency is that a single currency would involve not only a single central bank but single economic management and a commitment by the Government and people of this country to subsidise , if necessary , the trade deficit of Italy , the budget deficits of other countries and the different standards of living . |
| 5 | It is becoming increasingly frequent that liabilities under the indemnity should be subject to the same limitations as for the warranties , except that the period for claims will be six or seven years because those are the years in respect of which tax can generally be assessed . |
| 6 | It is becoming increasingly essential that Carling recovers from his strained thigh muscle in time for Saturday 's first Test against the All Blacks . |
| 7 | It is becoming increasingly apparent that drugs , which act through mechanisms other than acid inhibition , can control duodenal ulcer disease as effectively as H 2 receptor atagonists ; the findings of this study suggest that stimulation of normal gastroduodenal motility ( and thus acid clearance from the bulb ) may be an important mechanism in this respect , but one which has received scant attention to date . |
| 8 | It is becoming increasingly obvious that the interests of the environment , the landscape , rural communities , the Welsh language and the character and culture of all parts of Wales , are not separate but interconnected issues . |
| 9 | It is becoming increasingly obvious that in future all training must try to be more self-financing . |
| 10 | ALMOST two months into Colombia 's crackdown on the cocaine cartels , it is becoming increasingly clear that President Virgilio Barco has launched a war he can not win . |
| 11 | It is becoming increasingly clear that once the IMF has agreed short-term adjustment strategies with the major Eastern European governments , the way will be paved for the kind of large scale Western assistance which leaders such as Poland 's Mr Lech Walesa have called for . |
| 12 | It is becoming increasingly clear that the inquiry will never have before it any detailed assessment of the safety of the actual design which the CEGB will use to build the Sizewell reactor . |
| 13 | With presidential elections coming up in 1994 , it is becoming increasingly clear that political power in Brazil today rests to a large degree with the owners of the mass media . |
| 14 | It is becoming increasingly clear that a transition plan , developed with the individual during the final years of schooling , to which all agencies agree to contribute is the only practical way of coordinating local services . |
| 15 | Despite the controversy it is becoming increasingly clear that there is no real ground for argument between hospital and community care and that they should complement rather than rival one another . |
| 16 | It is becoming increasingly clear that this whole process , defined in one recent study as ‘ a set of procedures for uniting those who control the resources necessary for certain tasks ( the members of a municipal council or the shareholders in a company for example ) with those who use the goods or services produced from these resources ( pupils , patients , tenants , customers , etc. ) 'i is itself part of policy making . |
| 17 | The trouble with all of these theories of Broca 's aphasia , and others like them , is that they assume that a single deficit is involved , i.e. that the syndrome is a ‘ theoretical syndrome ’ ; and it is becoming increasingly clear that this is not so . |
| 18 | It is becoming increasingly clear that export performance and investment abroad can not be considered solely in the light of such traditional factors as relative export prices and financial rates of return of investment . |
| 19 | [ 1 ] It is becoming increasingly clear that , of these , the stress on application independence is particularly relevant . |
| 20 | For it is becoming increasingly clear that a semantic theory alone can give us only a proportion , and perhaps only a small if essential proportion , of a general account of language understanding . |
| 21 | Detention of a whole class may technically still be lawful , although it is becoming increasingly likely that a judge would have doubts about the reasonableness of this course of action where it is known that there may only be one or two culprits . |
| 22 | And it is becoming increasingly likely that the England starlet will be allowed to move on to another county where he can make a fresh start . |
| 23 | It is becoming increasingly evident that the traditional scientific approach to determining reality has run its course . |
| 24 | It is becoming increasingly evident that theories which seek to explain patterns of crime in socio-economic terms must do so in conjunction with cultural and political variables . |
| 25 | It is becoming increasingly evident that the left hemisphere 's control of language even among the fully right handed is not absolute . |
| 26 | Finally , it is becoming increasingly evident that scientific enquiry is an ongoing narrative through which generations of thinkers have sought to understand the world around them , and also that narrative as a mode of knowledge can be used as a means of accommodating the logical paradoxes of contemporary sciences . |
| 27 | But it is becoming increasingly important that an accord on foreign corporate investment is negotiated between leading industrial nations . |
| 28 | But it is becoming increasingly plain that symbols do not stand alone and can be understood only in a wider context of associations and contrasts . |
| 29 | Silver is becoming increasingly concerned that the Euro championships will be taken away from Elland Rd ( despite the fact that a new pitch is going to be laid at the end of the season ) , and says that Hunslet must be gone by spring 1995 at the latest . |
| 30 | However , we fear it is becoming so intense that many members of the Vale of Glamorgan Borough Council 's Planning Committee are in danger of losing sight of their duty to have regard to vital Government planning guidance aimed at protecting the open countryside from unnecessary development . |