Example sentences of "is [adj] [to-vb] that [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is vain to think that more of the load will be shouldered by voluntary effort . |
| 2 | Yet the central point is that it is absurd to assume that any woman is less competent to direct her life than any man she marries . |
| 3 | It is pleasant to find that this believer in the perfectibility of mankind was a good father to them all . |
| 4 | When there is a market for the intermediate product , it is usual to assume that each division can trade with that market if it wants to . |
| 5 | It is strange to think that these two extraordinary symphonies came from the composer of the student-exercise Piano Quartet movement which has been recorded by the Alpe Adria Ensemble . |
| 6 | It is strange to relate that this well-known symbol has been comparatively neglected by social scientists and especially by social psychologists . |
| 7 | It is strange to relate that this short stretch of water should be such a barrier but the hills of Wouldham and village are as foreign to some people of Halling as any parts of the world and in fact there are some who travel all over the country and to some places abroad , but have lived all their lives in the village without ever setting foot on the further banks of the river . |
| 8 | On the other hand , where severance of the subject matter is envisaged under the contract and property is to pass at this time , it is possible to argue that this is only a sale of goods ( see Kursell v Timber Operators and Contractors Ltd [ 1927 ] 1 KB 298 ) . |
| 9 | Decision tables are less graphical but are concise and have an in-built verification mechanism so that it is possible to check that all the conditions have been catered for . |
| 10 | In both Devon and Somerset it is possible to show that some of the surviving medieval farmsteads represent former hamlets . |
| 11 | The general form is Under certain conditions it is possible to show that any functional y may be expressed in the form ( Frechet 1910 ) . |
| 12 | It is possible to think that this plebeian has been lent some part of Naipaul 's aristocratic fastidiousness , some part of his hostility , while also suffering the consequences of an exposure to these qualities , and to recall that both Ahmed and the author of An Area of Darkness are preoccupied with the hanks of human shit that litter certain landscapes . |
| 13 | While Fisher is right to argue that some important principles can , nevertheless , be applied , he is also right to say that the consumerist philosophy and concepts of compulsory care which involve acting in the individual 's interests are basically incompatible . |
| 14 | Half the patients who require heart surgery are dealt with immediately , but the hon. Gentleman is right to say that some patients have to wait . |
| 15 | For my part I think it is right to accept that that was in the eyes of the appellants a formality . |
| 16 | Second the behavioural view of such behaviour was introduced along with the concept that in the context of intervention it is profitable to consider that all behaviour is learned . |
| 17 | However , given current UK time costs , it is unrealistic to believe that many listeners will hear a given commercial many times . |
| 18 | It is unrealistic to assume that all the Palestinians currently living in the Arab states , whether still in refugee camps or integrated into their host society , could or would want to return to a West Bank-Gaza Palestinian state . ’ |
| 19 | This immediately puts their organisation in a good light and the journalist is disposed to feel that this outfit may be a useful source of information in the future . |
| 20 | The problem then arises , even if the court is prepared to consider that such a term should be implied , as to what is the period of time that should be considered reasonable . |
| 21 | The CTP proclaims that the link between the perceived object and the perception is just an ordinary bit of the great causal nexus of nature ( it needs to believe this , as we shall see presently ) and yet it is prepared to accept that this segment of the chain has a rather privileged status ; at the very least , that it has a beginning and an end . |
| 22 | In connection with the location of the energy barrier separating the two states , it is interesting to remark that some crystallographic results have been interpreted as containing B II phosphates when in fact these conformations correspond to ε-ζ values of roughly +30° ( see , for example , 10 ) which in the light of our findings should be considered B I . |
| 23 | It is interesting to see that some developments in reading instruction are stressing the need to help pupils cope with text organisational problems . |
| 24 | It is interesting to note that neither of the Palmotićs receives even a passing mention in Zvane Črnja 's standard Kulturna historija Hrvatske , although Jakita is described by Sir Arthur Evans as one of ‘ the most celebrated names in the long annals of Ragusan literature ’ and Junije is referred to by one English historian as ‘ the creator of the national drama ’ . |
| 25 | It is interesting to note that all the prescriptions subsequent to Phos LM3 were made up in 5ml dropper bottles except Phos LM8 which was put in a 100ml bottle by mistake and did n't have the same effect . |
| 26 | It is interesting to note that such detailed diagrams have similarities to the Petri nets of Furuta and Stotts [ 6 ] . |
| 27 | It is interesting to note that many fast bowlers during the 1920s and 1930s employed a long-off when bowling to Woolley , who was also , of course , a very useful slow left-arm bowler , who could probably be entrusted to get through 10 overs at reasonable cost . |
| 28 | It is interesting to note that these German demands for greater centrally-imposed discipline , together with their attacks on British plans for currency competition , came in spite of increasing interest in the proposal in France . |
| 29 | The subjects were corn plants , and it is interesting to note that these plants have a natural variability in leaf area of nearly 10% , which can be increased by errors introduced by the measurement technique employed . |
| 30 | It is interesting to note that several Portuguese nationals were included in the Lisbon membership list . |