Example sentences of "[pron] is [adv] [verb] [be] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the recognition which is generally held was that the increase in the criminal statistics was because police and public alike were more willing to bring charges against young offenders because of the reshaping of the court system towards help and reformation , rather than punishment . |
| 2 | One of the beauties of the technique which is often overlooked is that the colours tend to show through and ‘ blur ’ a little . |
| 3 | What is well documented is that any attempt to prepare enquiry and discovery activities based on the pupil 's own interests and starting points will most frequently and helpfully lead to thematic work , breaking out of the narrow specialisms of the traditional timetable . |
| 4 | What is easily overlooked is that all such work is based on a series of unstated assumptions whose validity has never been examined . |
| 5 | What is immediately needed is that teachers should bring to bear on their day to day problems astringent intellectual scrutiny . |
| 6 | What is here stressed is that there is , and for many decades has consistently been , an active and relatively vociferous body of thought among librarians concerned with the active exploitation of the collection and the development of busy programmes of dissemination . |
| 7 | What is often overlooked is that the presence of high real interest rates , by attracting higher savings , reduces spending and hence curtails imports . |
| 8 | What is often forgotten is that many people derive their living from them . |
| 9 | What is often forgotten is that it is us who have to pay to have it cleared up . |
| 10 | A lot of the times what is really happening is that people are being put into artificial jobs . |
| 11 | It 's erm in fact a quote from Wilson , the founder of Socio-biology , the mo in other words modern er Darwinism as oppo as , as a applied to animal behaviour and Wilson 's point in saying that sex is an anti-social force in evolution was to suggest that what is really happening is that if natural selection is a question of the reproductive success of individual genes , then individuals should be motivated to produce as many copies of those genes as they possibly can , and that will inevitably bring them into competition with other members of the species who wan na do exactly the same thing . |
| 12 | What is really meant is that the individuals , the men , women and children , the people , they were in a mess . |
| 13 | What is now proposed is that whatever the size of the police authority there will still be a body of appointees er m m made by the Secretary of State . |
| 14 | What is less known is that at the close of the Southern African conflict , this same general had been discreetly retired , and he had then entered business , dealing in shipments from Southern Africa . |
| 15 | What is actually happening is that you also get a high tide on the other side of the globe as well like that . |
| 16 | What is actually meant is that the world is no longer so clearly divided as it was in the 1950s and 1960s into two armed camps of allies , with China , after 1960 , causing something of a schism in the Russian camp . |