Example sentences of "is that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason is that hardened Staffordshire smokers ( and they come no harder ) have taken to the Nicotine patch and are driving their colleagues mad with frozen smiles and cries of : ‘ I 'm all right — I 've gone 73-and-a-quarter hours without one ’ . |
| 2 | In short , the law is unclear , though perhaps the better view is that subjective knowledge is required . |
| 3 | And the second thing is that repossessed houses very very quickly begin to look dirty and battered . |
| 4 | The explicit or implicit argument is that elderly people have experienced a constriction of economic liberty in modern Britain because of the sometimes deliberate and sometimes unconscious course of development of social welfare and employment policies . |
| 5 | The significance of this result is that broad bean pollen is completely devoid of carotenoids , and some of these chemicals are the physiological precursors of vitamin A. |
| 6 | A second reason is that wider economic consequences may be better dealt with by other branches of economic policy : for example , regional policy can be designed specifically to deal with localized unemployment problems , R&D policy to deal with the promotion of R&D and the protection of intellectual property rights . |
| 7 | Neither side has given any estimate of the extent of the anticipated cuts but the expectation is that hundreds of the 2,200 jobs , which add up to a monthly £2 million pay bill , will have to be sacrificed . |
| 8 | The good news is that hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of paintings were saved . |
| 9 | If it be objected that no beginning writer shops around in this way among the idioms handed down to him from the past , the evidence is that certain beginning writers do shop around in just this way ; Ezra Pound was one of them , and he is by no means so exceptional as is supposed . |
| 10 | Moreover , with the microfiche databases available on subscription and therefore immediately accessible to subscribers , the effect is that certain types of straightforward database searches are less necessary on individual demand . |
| 11 | Word from Ford is that better seats are on their way this year . |
| 12 | ‘ There now , is that better ? ’ |
| 13 | The answer is that greater corporate profits may be made by releasing assets by sale of machinery , land and buildings , and by investing them in another sector ( e.g. offices ) , or by building or re-equipping another , substitute factory elsewhere . |
| 14 | The clear implication is that greater weight is being given to macro-planning , in the hope that greater effectiveness here will indirectly benefit individual projects . |
| 15 | Speed humps can do this , whereas the evidence is that present methods do not . |
| 16 | The upshot is that small areas of the boundary layer are turbulent . |
| 17 | Among the claims is that five men accused in a rent boys scandal walked free after fears that gay judges would be named in court . |
| 18 | The latest update to last week 's Barclays Bank story ( UX No 393 ) , is that five of DEC 's Alpha-ready VAX 7000/610 machines are replacing 20 VAX 8000 and 6000 boxes at three Barclay 's datacentres . |
| 19 | I know people read my books and try to find identifiable people but the truth is that five or six people , and a great deal of myself and a great deal of invention , go into minor characters . |
| 20 | ‘ The word is that five or six miles further on we 'll find the new road washed out . |
| 21 | What I should perhaps point out here is that seventy percent of people who have fallen from the top of the falls have died in the process . |
| 22 | And the good news is that 10 % from every sale will go to help the World Wide Life Fund For Nature in its quest for earth 's survival . |
| 23 | And as for Mr Willi Stoph , the former prime minister , a major mark against him is that 100 different brands of whisky were found in his cellar — in other countries that would be admired . |
| 24 | The result is that ordinary motorists can now get the cars of their dreams for a song , and they could even end up being a good little earner . |
| 25 | The result is that ordinary motorists can now pick them up at the more respectable auctions for less than the price of an everyday family car . |
| 26 | The pessimistic conclusion is that electoral democracy can only survive by not tackling major social injustices and alienating powerful interest groups in society — in which case the poor will , in the long run , not consider democracy worth supporting . |
| 27 | The second fact is that Labour , despite the recession and its junking of almost all the policies that made it unelectable in the '80s , has not made a significant advance . |
| 28 | A second point to be noted in this , and in a large number of other conversational fragments , is that personal topics are frequently introduced through first person reference in one form or another . |
| 29 | Whatever the cause , the immediate consequence is that personal sector lending to the public sector has fallen . |
| 30 | The argument is that serious sexual assaults , and the attitude of many men towards them , derive from a male-dominated approach to sexuality in which aggressive sexual behaviour by males is praised or condoned whilst women are associated with passivity . |