Example sentences of "and that [pron] is [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is interesting that the Minister believes that could have a damaging impact on the quality of bids and that it is better to receive one bid that represents management and employees . |
| 2 | In defence of the charges , David Moffat , fund manager of Eagle Star European ( 071–929 1111 ) , agrees that unit trusts are more expensive to buy but argues that with investment trusts there are dealing charges on purchase and sale , and that it is better to pay a percentage at the beginning when the fund is worth less than on redemption when , hopefully , it should be worth substantially more ! |
| 3 | " It is stated to this Meeting that the Lint Miln is keep 'd in very bad order , and that it is insufficient to manufacture the Lint of the Parish independent of the Lint of the whole Island . |
| 4 | If a case falls midway between two authorities , this may indicate that there is a fundamental conflict of principle between the two authorities , and that it is necessary to hold that one of them was wrongly decided . |
| 5 | They should , however , be informed by principles and insights drawn from linguistics — for example , the idea that language in all its diversity can be approached in a non-prescriptive , non-judgmental way and that it is possible to treat systematically and objectively an aspect of human life which is often the focus of emotive and prejudiced reactions . |
| 6 | Parents need time to understand how their problems affect their children and that it is possible to help them with management issues if they work together and support each other . |
| 7 | Further , Hayek argues that constructivist rationalists are guilty of ‘ the synoptic delusion ’ ; that is , the belief that all relevant social facts are capable of being known to some one mind , and that it is possible to construct from this knowledge of the particulars a desirable social order . |
| 8 | It is realistic to recognise that there is a significant problem with which we must deal and that it is right to do so . |
| 9 | if the company resolves by extraordinary resolution to the effect that it can not by reason of its liabilities continue its business and that it is advisable to wind up . |
| 10 | Intel Corp president Andy Grove told the annual meeting that the company 's chip business remains strong and that it is ready to fight new competitors in the market place , Reuter reports : ‘ Our response to all these competitors has been to concentrate on getting better and faster products into the hands of our customers , ’ Grove said , adding that Intel was meeting demand for the 80486 but dealer and customer inventories were tight ; capital spending this year is now likely to hit $1,800m , up from the previously planned $1,600m ; executive vice-president Craig Barrett said the next generation P6 microprocessor will probably be unveiled in late 1995 or early 1996 ; Intel holders also approved a two for one share split to take effect in June . |
| 11 | But Brown Owl forgot that one of the questions on it asked how old you are and that it is rude to ask a lady how old she is . |
| 12 | Evidently those who make the suggestion hold that things which promote the survival of the species are good , and that no others are , and that it is important to recognize this . |
| 13 | It is their custom , even on their largest ships , to show no lights at night — on the principle that it is better to see than to be seen , and that it is easier to see in the dark without the distraction of lights . |
| 14 | However , if you are correcting for drift with one wing well down , and then the cable breaks , you may find that you have already turned quite a long way , and that it is easier to keep that turn going if you can not get down ahead . |
| 15 | However , they have come home to a safe place where they know they are loved and that it is safe to have their tantrums . |
| 16 | I have checked that it still remains a right and that it is OK to withdraw . |
| 17 | The whys and wherefores of these procedures need to be explained to students , otherwise they might conclude that proper parking is not really important and that it is alright to leave a glider with either wing down . |
| 18 | However , Lea points out that for writers like Gilroy racism is embodied in the conscious policies and practices of the police as an institution and that it is difficult to argue that the police are de-politicising black struggles , and criminalising them , when some of them , such as the Spaghetti House siege , used crime to obtain political funds , and hence the police responded to the event as crime . |
| 19 | He further argues that with multiple measures there is a danger of losing focus , and that it is difficult to set targets for some indicators because there are no historical data on them . |
| 20 | If the assumption of opportunism is something you regard as an unnecessarily cynical view of human nature , note that its importance requires only that some , not all , people behave in this way and that it is difficult to tell who is opportunistic and who is not . |
| 21 | The trade in plutonium between Britain and the US has shown that two countries that proclaim their peaceful intentions as loudly as any are not beyond suspicion and that it is difficult to believe assurances that nuclear power stations have no weapons connection . |
| 22 | The results presented above show that the 80 bp promoter fragment binds at least two different factors and that it is able to modulate transcription in both homologous and heterologous constructions . |
| 23 | It is recognised that full configuration control of software is not limited to source code and that it is desirable to control the whole environment in which the target machine-code is produced . |
| 24 | This development on the green belt of Ipswich is partly because of the Conservative Government withering away the planning powers of borough councils , who in the past would have dismissed such a planning application as this , on the grounds that housing and industry should not mix and that it is desirable to have a green buffer zone between the two . |
| 25 | Is he aware that the setting of arbitrary deadlines for a move to a single currency is really gesture politics , and that he is right to dissociate Britain from it ? |
| 26 | I am delighted that he sees the benefits of competitive tendering and that he is anxious to ensure that further education colleges should get the best value for money . |
| 27 | There is no overt recognition that fat women do not have equal access to sexual relationships : however , if a fat woman 's friends never ask her whether she is attracted to someone , they assume that she is single because she is fat and that she is likely to remain without a lover . |