Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [adv] [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.

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1 Hick played what in others is a plain forward-defensive shot but for him is so sweetly timed that it brings four through mid-off .
2 It is rather implausibly said that Christian Doppler himself demonstrated his effect by hiring a brass band to play on an open railway truck as it rushed past his amazed audience .
3 It is however also clear that the concept of legitimate expectations , like many legal concepts , can be used in more than one way ; it does not have to be given a restrictive interpretation .
4 It is not just sponges that can self-assemble .
5 It is not just cost that has made the DIY holiday so popular , although traditionally they have been the break for those on a tight budget .
6 Energy has many forms — heat , electrical energy , mechanical energy , strain energy and so on — but it is not immediately clear that the surface of a solid has energy , merely by virtue of its existence as a surface .
7 While this distinction is obviously important to Poulantzas , it is not immediately clear that it helps him to unite structures and class practices as he intends .
8 … In the present case it is not even averred that the defendants knew of the pregnancy of the plaintiff 's mother when they received her as a passenger ; it is merely averred that in fact she was then quick with child , viz. with the plaintiff , to whom she subsequently gave birth .
9 But it is not wholly clear that the problem has disappeared .
10 It is not wholly clear that the Act has the effect intended for it .
11 It is not widely realised that Germans of all political complexions have identified the fate of their country with that of Europe .
12 It is not widely known that Old FF keeps a diary .
13 For example , it is not widely known that there were turntables at both Bishop 's Castle and Stretford Bridge in the line 's early years , though they seem to have been little used and the railway gained its reputation for unusual working practices right from the start .
14 It is not universally accepted that these cross-relationship situations are integral to sexual development .
15 In summary , it is not yet clear that a modification of the daily rhythms is a necessary requirement of treatment or that an abnormality of the body clock is the cause of the disorder .
16 We wish to preface our discussion of syndromes involving abnormal language development with the disclaimer that , while these categories may delineate separate psychiatric categories , it is not yet clear that each of these categories represents a unique type of linguistic disorder .
17 However , it is not yet clear that the use of a fixation stimulus does not introduce as many difficulties as it seeks to eliminate .
18 If we wonder why it is not generally recognised that there are , besides verbal propositions composed of words , mental ones composed of ideas , an explanation is readily available : ‘ it is very difficult to treat of them asunder .
19 It is not generally realized that he did write on such topics , though it must be admitted that a frontal attack on the factory system was not likely to be poetically successful .
20 It is not generally recommended that anything else is kept with a Red-tail , as they can be very territorial and aggressive .
21 It is not generally known that among the sculptured panels at the top of the Library facade , there is one featuring two children fingerspelling at each other the first two letters of the alphabet .
22 It is not generally known that nearly 90% of the 3,500 or so complaints received yearly are cleared up by the secretariat without the need for disciplinary action .
23 It is not generally known that there are more than 1,000 applications a week at the Home Office for political asylum from new arrivals .
24 Perhaps it is not generally known that David Farrington 's research on criminal careers suggests that the single most effective crime prevention policy is nursery education , which is denied to so many children in inner city areas .
25 It is not generally appreciated that very many settlement sites exhibit earthworks of several periods .
26 It is not only labour that the economic power of Bangkok is sucking out of the north-east .
27 In revisionist histories constructed for apologetic purposes , it is not usually denied that there were conflicts in the past .
28 Clearly something does happen in higher education ; it is not enough to argue that it trains an elite and to leave it at that .
29 In the spirit of this observation , however , it is not enough to argue that Marx 's views have been shown to be false by the continuing development of capitalist socialisation .
30 It is not enough to say that the compiler has inserted a story that once had a quite independent existence .
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