Example sentences of "[adj] [is] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Assuming DOL comes back to full fitness that leaves us with DOL , Newsome , Wetherall , Fairclough and Jobson for effectively 2 places , and that s before we start looking at the youth team players .
2 Sunderland are shite at the moment but that s because all four of their new signings were injured in a car crash .
3 In essence , what makes Coleridge peculiar is that he was able to write , to create , from several different motives .
4 What is not at all clear is whether one highly visible target — incineration — is anything like a major ingredient in the pollution cocktail , even at Pontypool .
5 What is not so clear is whether the Principles have anticipated ail types of problem which the technology may throw up .
6 What is less clear is whether they were cut in Kent or imported ready cut .
7 What is less clear is whether these are national cultural differences , differences in the use of language and/or corporate culture influences .
8 Also not clear is whether any of the mothers received steroids to accelerate fetal maturity before delivery .
9 What is clear is that the financial cost of alcohol misuse to society as a whole runs into hundreds of millions of pounds each year .
10 What is clear is that this was all one society , in which the wives — like Mrs Lowndes herself — wrote books or maintained salons , while their husbands were functionaries , some of them much in the public eye as ministers of the Crown , others — like Frederic Lowndes — no less influential and esteemed for operating under wraps , as grey eminences .
11 What is clear is that his behaviour was geared to the available audience .
12 What has not yet been made clear is that the vice-chancellors are seriously split over the issue and some are expressing grave misgivings over the direction being taken .
13 What 's clear is that the Polo is not the all-new supermini Volkswagen would have you believe .
14 What is clear is that once Trodd , a strong and familiar collaborator had gone , dangers crowded in .
15 What is clear is that , in the above passage , he is not making the objection against himself .
16 What is , however , abundantly clear is that , unlike the 1930s , Hitler was prepared , indeed anxious , to be publicly associated during the war with the most radical steps in the ‘ Jewish Question ’ , even though , of course , his horrific statements remained couched in vile generalities , avoiding any specific reference to the details of the ‘ Final Solution ’ , which were intended to remain entirely secret .
17 What is clear is that under an Awlad Amira administration Tibbu did not seem to have acquired any of those ordinary benefits which were available to Zuwaya .
18 However historically authentic ( or not ) this account may be , what is clear is that Hungarians adhered to it for a thousand years after their arrival in the Danubian plain at the beginning of the tenth century .
19 Mr Taylor said : ‘ What is clear is that we have come closer together .
20 What is clear is that it is social activities — such as the provision of kindergartens , youth clubs and advice centres — which would be hit first by any change to the levy .
21 What is clear is that , with few exceptions , the major avenue to career mobility in most countries is through formal post-secondary education .
22 What is now clear is that the fire posed a serious hazard to the health of people not just in Cumberland but throughout the path of a radioactive cloud which swept south-east from Windscale across England towards Europe .
23 What is clear is that the military origins of nuclear power in this country gave it a powerful boost as an infant technology , and that the umbilical cord has not been severed .
24 What is also clear is that the miners ' strike left deep ideological scars .
25 What is clear is that behind the brilliance of the official Court there lay a core of family — one is tempted to say bourgeois — life , but this is not , of course , how the Second Empire is remembered , for few even of the courtiers were admitted to the intimacy of the Imperial family and the general public not at all .
26 What is also clear is that it was the weaker and poorer sections of the public that were harassed most .
27 What is quite clear is that any success will rest on the basic sciences of virology and molecular biology , and that , without research into obscure aspects of these subjects the direct hunt for new cures would be no better than shooting in the dark with unfamiliar weapons at an undefined target .
28 What is clear is that the court rejected Rees 's argument that the annotation could be kept secret , on the basis of a somewhat heavy-handed assumption of what this would entail .
29 What is clear is that the mechanics of the process , that is , the breaking down of the tissue into discrete blocks , involves an increase in adhesion between the cells in each somite .
30 Numbers are of course too small to draw any conclusion from this finding ; what is clear is that the action project made no evident difference to clients ' cognitive impairment .
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