Example sentences of "is [adj] [prep] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The technical problem is that of ensuring that the stimulation is of a duration and intensity to be physiologically realistic . |
| 2 | Chief among these is that of ensuring that left and right hemisphere damaged groups are appropriately matched in extent and type of pathology as well as in locus of lesion . |
| 3 | The first is that of ensuring that your reader knows which words are the technical terms . |
| 4 | The second , more difficult problem is that of ensuring that your reader understands what your technical terms mean . |
| 5 | It seems likely that a local commentator is right in thinking that the boycott cost the DUP votes in a subsequent by-election . |
| 6 | Assuming that Jackson is right in thinking that a larger budget and extra staff will be less effective in achieving such objectives , a model of bureaucratic behaviour needs to include the trade-offs to be made by bureaucrats between the different elements in their utility functions . |
| 7 | Perhaps too , Land is right in suggesting that computer users should have been brought more into the argument . |
| 8 | But he is right in saying that existing road space must be rationed — electronic devices are the obvious method — and public transport radically enhanced . |
| 9 | I am sure that he is right in saying that the reduced pupil-teacher ratio provides children with an advantage , and also in pointing out that the quality of teaching and the ability of teachers is at least as important . |
| 10 | She is right in saying that the west midlands has benefited from a vast increase both in the amount and the share of inward investment into this country . |
| 11 | But to argue that an embryo is sacred is different from saying that a sperm is sacred . |
| 12 | To be sure , God 's Spirit is at work in the East and everywhere , but that is different from saying that he contributes to beliefs which deny the truth that he has inspired . |
| 13 | The emphasis on medium , form and aesthetic grammar would suggest that , whatever their ‘ content ’ or ‘ effect ’ , they are somehow different ; at the simplest level , saying that a history or sociology book is badly written is different from saying that a novel is badly written . |
| 14 | The president is fond of repeating that the members of Gladio were ‘ patriots ’ . |
| 15 | AT&T is fond of saying that USL has annual revenues ‘ in excess of $80 million dollars . ’ |
| 16 | Sir John Harvey-Jones is fond of saying that there is no such thing as a business standing still . |
| 17 | Their support is then usually too late to avert psychiatric disorder as research is clear in showing that most disorder associated with life events develops quite rapidly after the event . |
| 18 | It is further worth noting that the lack of confidence in the police by black people is now reaching other parts of the criminal justice system , notably the courts . |
| 19 | My young friend Ed Douglas is wrong in assuming that Victor Saunders is excluded from hero-candidacy by virtue of his Gordonstoun education , but right in suggesting its irrelevance ( April issue ) . |
| 20 | From this point of view , the dualist is wrong in assuming that there is some unitary conceptual " content " in every piece of language . |
| 21 | The pre-emption thesis is wrong in claiming that they too are pre-empted . |
| 22 | Editor , — Helen Zeitlin is wrong in claiming that my article about her reinstatement was unjust and incorrect . |
| 23 | It is also true to say that the minister ( man or woman ) is central in ensuring that the funeral service is a memorable event for the family by helping them to begin to understand their grief in the context of the church 's care for them . |
| 24 | In such a situation the skilled care of social workers is crucial to ensuring that an unwanted by-product of success for some children is not the total destruction of self-esteem for others . |
| 25 | It is misguided in believing that a solution to the problem of the legitimacy of corporate managerial power can ever be found by looking to either the market or the ordering of power within the company . |
| 26 | Reference was made to Gloag on Contract ( 2nd edn ) , pp 617 and 618 , which respectively state : ‘ Stipulations as to time of payment are not treated as material conditions of the contract , except in very special cases ’ , and , ‘ [ The ] question is whether the conduct of the party in default is such as to indicate that he intends to repudiate his contractual obligations . ’ |
| 27 | Now it is of course always possible to substitute ( x ) Fx for ( Ex ) Fx , replacing the existential quantifier , that is , with a universal quantifier plus negation , but there is nothing much to be gained by such a swap , for to paraphrase the proposition that something is human by saying that it is not the case that everything is non-human is merely to beg the question . |
| 28 | Councillor Buchanan , therefore , is confused in imagining that the board is a committee of the council , on which he bases his argument that I should not have remained in office . |
| 29 | Society is ambivalent about recognising that elderly people have a legitimate wish to continue to express their sexuality in physical ways . |
| 30 | Success in dieting is all about knowing that you will win . |