Example sentences of "[adj] is [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | What is not so clear is whether the Principles have anticipated ail types of problem which the technology may throw up . |
| 3 | What is less clear is whether they were cut in Kent or imported ready cut . |
| 4 | What is less clear is whether these are national cultural differences , differences in the use of language and/or corporate culture influences . |
| 5 | Also not clear is whether any of the mothers received steroids to accelerate fetal maturity before delivery . |
| 6 | The reason it is funny is because a person could not be a mile high . |
| 7 | But , as an exile friend says , threatening to throw himself in Chihana 's footsteps , ‘ It seems the only way the media will be interested is if something happens to someone else . ’ |
| 8 | I 'm convinced that the main reason The Cowboy Junkies are popular is because of their name . |
| 9 | Much more equivocal is whether the theory has any predictive content . |
| 10 | Deborah and Elaine are obviously close ; Deborah 's flying entrance on this last remark brought a ‘ The only time I know I look wrong is if Mum says I look ‘ cute' ! |
| 11 | The rain which is making conditions up here decidedly unpleasant is as I speak seeping through the rocks and creating foaming torrents underground , flooding caverns and making passages impassable . |
| 12 | What is doubtful is whether the survival of those phenomena and the tardiness with which they were abolished actually reinforced the political influence of mob violence . |
| 13 | What is interesting is whether the women were there ready to work because they were marginal to the existing structure and were n't being allowed into the existing structure or , and I think there is evidence to show this , because they are actually more interested in being flexible , innovative and creative than in a tidy career track — that they are prepared to go nut and take chances . |
| 14 | Far more interesting is whether the hon. Gentleman and his Back-Bench colleagues support Labour 's new nuclear defence policy — so far as anyone can understand it . |
| 15 | Maybe more interesting is whether a smaller unit , the herred , dates from the Viking period . |
| 16 | Now what is particularly interesting is if you take that and you try and date when these various things were done , and if I ask questions why was it done like this . |
| 17 | What might be more interesting is if re Christopher reads you his reading book from the library cos it 's really good fun . |
| 18 | but what I find so interesting is because people talk nowadays as if it 's only recently women have had jobs erm |
| 19 | What may prove crucial is whether the seller or sellers of the shareholding included fund managers Gartmore , who have not yet made their intentions clear , or Phillips & Drew Fund Managers , who are thought to be against the bid . |
| 20 | The reason it 's warm is because of all that warm blood that 's leaked into it . |
| 21 | And the reason why they were n't sitting straight is because one shoulder was higher than the other . |
| 22 | I do n't think there is an overall meaning to be got by the symbolism of hands , though they are used many times to mean different things with many characters though in some cases what makes them symbolic is because it is hands that are being referred to and not another part of the anatomy . |
| 23 | Now that in itself is not unique , what is unique is because of our relationships with people like Microsoft who actually O E M and resell and O S Two , then many many of the P C and desktop Four G M and tools vendors vendors have aligned themselves behind that A P I . |
| 24 | One reason why ants are so sophisticated is because of their complex language of chemical communication , which Dr Wilson has done more than anyone to elucidate . |
| 25 | What is questionable is whether Gandhi hypostasizes Religion or gives it a referential connotation in the same way as Tillich does by his use of the term Ultimate Concern . |
| 26 | More questionable is whether this dainty twirl of the merry-go-round will do much to change the nation — or this government 's ill-fortune . |
| 27 | What is questionable is whether they make the best use of this information , particularly of that which , if they were competent to extract it , could be deduced from the companies ' published accounts . |
| 28 | I 'm going to see to it that my sending-off is as I want it . |
| 29 | Indeed , the chief reason why the proportion of older people is so large is because the proportion of younger people is so much smaller , having this century almost halved , while the former has trebled . |
| 30 | but are the point about how it 's structured is if for example it 's going to be open to students at Napier |