Example sentences of "is [adj] [is] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little that is definite is known of her early years , except that she was said to have been a backward child ; that she was sent to a private school , Hope House , in Taunton ; that she broke away from the family tradition of Methodism and became an Anglican ; and that she came to the attention of Dorothea Beale [ q.v. ] , and taught at Cheltenham Ladies ' College from 1877 until 1881 . |
| 2 | That is Labour 's hidden agenda . |
| 3 | The public will see immediately that Labour has no idea what it is going to do — but perhaps that is Labour 's chosen method : perhaps the idea is to introduce a tax that is completely incomprehensible . |
| 4 | The process takes a previously printed image which before the ink is dry is dusted with a resinous powder . |
| 5 | Thus the damaging divide between what is established and what is innovative is avoided , the present is seen to be an evolution from the past and not an abrupt and revolutionary change of paradigm which requires a radical shift in allegiance . |
| 6 | What is possible is to treat people as more or less human . |
| 7 | Most managers today would say victory can not be planned , and that all that is possible is to analyse the opposition . |
| 8 | Anybody with strong convictions that what he is doing is right is bound to stir up controversy . |
| 9 | advise the bank/organisation if the cover in which the bank/organisation is interested is reduced or if any risk previously covered is restricted or cancelled ; |
| 10 | So there is some pattern in this spelling it 's awkward it 's not as trouble is English is mixed up with bits of all sort of other languages over hundreds of thousands of years . |
| 11 | However , anything which is non-zero is considered to be TRUE . |
| 12 | What is valuable is to see that here is a critic writing at the top of his bent . |
| 13 | You see the only way that you can really discipline them is when you have a school where the rules have been very , very strict from the moment that they went into that school and they have had their noses held to the grindstone with work up to their brows and they just do n't think of being tiresome and anybody who is tiresome is pulled out and put in a special room on their own , called a sin bin an which is rather boring and made to work even harder ! |
| 14 | The discussion of relative autonomy suggests that to say that a state is capitalist is to make a statement at a very high level of abstraction . |
| 15 | ‘ What is key is to get evidence from the crew as soon as possible and that we were able to do under the marine accident investigation system . |
| 16 | Other training that is helpful is to gather a group of future leaders together to teach these goals for housegroups . |
| 17 | Tony Grant , of Coopers and Lybrand , who chairs the initiative , hopes to take advantage of the deregulation of German , French and other European financial sectors that he is sure is coming . |
| 18 | What is fascinating is to see his mastering a new style and technique , and still managing to rivet our attention as of old . |
| 19 | ‘ What is disturbing is conducting the National Youth Orchestra in Britain — wonderful , disciplined players — and knowing next time I will see them , in years to come — all that sense of orchestral order may be lost . ’ |
| 20 | It is important to remember that the late Dr. Schumacher 's book Small is Beautiful is subtitled A study of Economics as if People Mattered . |
| 21 | What is important is determining why they were here , and who kidnapped them . ’ |
| 22 | What is important is to explore these possibilities with the students and to use the example to illustrate the difficulty of the latter method if we try to apply it at the end of 1989 when the costs to completion are uncertain . |
| 23 | This indicates the breakdown of thermal convection as an important upward heat-transport mechanism , and by analogy with the Earth 's atmosphere the region where it is important is called the troposphere and its upper boundary is called the tropopause . |
| 24 | As far as the sharing and common ownership of property is concerned what is important is to notice the contrast between the communism of the Acts which was spontaneous and voluntary and that of the Essenes which was strictly organised and fixed by law . |
| 25 | What is important is to learn by our mistakes so as to avoid future problems . |
| 26 | What is important is to tell your readers that the Safety Authority is quite independent of the influence of Eurotunnel and of the Government when it comes to the advice we give on safety standards of the tunnel and its railway system . |
| 27 | Erm , what we have done is is because what is important is to look at that particular and try and get as good an estimate as we can because , let's face it , if we over-budget then in fact we 're wasting money which could otherwise be really targeted on community resources . |
| 28 | What is important is to balance the books over the financial cycle . |
| 29 | What is important is to become breathless , to raise the heartbeat , to stretch all parts of the body . |
| 30 | What is important is to bring about areas of solidarity , areas of coming together . |