Example sentences of "is [adv] [verb] that the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This attitude to non-verbal communication has been encouraged by the popularisation of right-brain left-brain studies and amongst those who sponsor the soft primitivism that I have just referred to it is widely assumed that the verbal capabilities of the left cerebral hemisphere have been over-developed by a culture which puts too much emphasis on linguistic finesse and that the expressive repertoire of the supposedly holistic right hemisphere has been dangerously neglected as a consequence . |
| 2 | It is widely accepted that the Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth century was preceded by a long period of gradual economic growth , but when the upturn began remains uncertain . |
| 3 | It is widely accepted that the next ten years presents the Health Service with a manpower problem . |
| 4 | It is widely accepted that the spiral pattern formed by the stars of a galaxy like our own is produced by a density wave moving through the stars . |
| 5 | It is widely recognised that the classical technique can and does prove a stable basis fur all styles of dance . |
| 6 | It is widely believed that the vast luminosity ( up to 10 45 ergs -1 ) arising from a very compact volume ( a light-year or less ) in quasars and Seyfert galaxies are powered by black holes with masses of the order of 10 9 M and ; , and that such black holes should reside in the nuclei of many , perhaps most galaxies as luminous as the Milky Way . |
| 7 | It is widely believed that the British clothing industry is in a terminal state of decline due to lack of international competitiveness . |
| 8 | It is widely held that the increased basal acid secretion in patients with duodenal ulcer disease is determined by vagal drive rather than circulating gastrin . |
| 9 | At the same time , the basic insight of Ohmann 's approach continues to have linguistic validity : it is widely held that the basic logical content of a sentence can be represented as a ( set of ) elementary propositions , which , together with their interrelations , constitute its " deep structure " or " semantic representation " . " |
| 10 | It is widely known that the new repository will run on AIX and OS/2 , but it may surprise many that the thing is also up under OS/400 as well as on Ultrix , HP-UX and Solaris and that IBM has funded development work internally for it to appear on these non-IBM versions . |
| 11 | This is not to say that PGCE ( and in-service ) tutors do not attempt to develop ‘ professional ’ rather than ‘ craftsman ’ knowledge and attitudes , it is rather to say that the professional knowledge is built on shaky foundations . |
| 12 | J. P. Morgan , a New York bank , is optimistically forecasting that the current account for the year will be in balance , compared with a deficit of $99 billion in 1990 . |
| 13 | My purpose here is merely to suggest that the English choral tradition , with its reliance upon young voices ' and its tinge of Protestant Englishness , turns the memories and dreams of a social class into sound . |
| 14 | It is generally recognized that the magnetic field of the Earth has periodically reversed : Warlow claimed that the Earth as a whole had flipped over . |
| 15 | It is generally believed that the normal oesophagus is only active in response to a stimulus ( deglutition or oesophageal distension resulting in primary or secondary peristalsis ) and that non-glutitive activity of the oesophageal body is mostly abnormal . |
| 16 | 2 The time at which reasonableness is considered It is generally accepted that the relevant time at which reasonableness is to be considered is the time of entering the contract . |
| 17 | Full length waders are essential as it is generally accepted that the best depth to work is knee to waist deep . |
| 18 | Although it is generally accepted that the globular domain of H1 or H5 binds to the exit and entry points of nucleosomal DNA , there are currently many conflicting models for the detailed picture of how this is achieved . |
| 19 | But because the demand for central control has arisen out of a general dissatisfaction with education , and this dissatisfaction is often directed towards an excess of ‘ creativity ’ in the classroom , a lack of a disciplined work-force , it is generally assumed that the central common curriculum to be nationally accepted would be down-to-earth , factual , able to be assessed , and marked by a tick or a cross . |
| 20 | Although it is generally assumed that the free movement of persons within the European Community will increase the impact of ‘ international crime ’ on the internal security problems of the Member States and that more intensive and more effective law enforcement co-operation will be required , there is uncertainty about how better co-ordination can be achieved . |
| 21 | Similarly , it is generally agreed that the discourse-deictic words like moreover , besides , anyway , well , etc. , in utterance-initial position , do not make any difference to truth conditions ( Grice , 1961 , 1975 ; Wilson , 1975 ) . |
| 22 | It is generally agreed that the young long-term unemployed present particular and often unfamiliar problems in the field of social , educational and employment policy . |
| 23 | It is generally agreed that the primitive mammals existing at that time were shrew-like creatures that lived by eating insects , and that the various groups of mammals that we see today , such as cats , rats , monkeys , whales , and horses , all evolved from this unpromising ancestor . |
| 24 | It is generally thought that the new Home Secretary , Kenneth Clarke , wants to review the Bill introduced by Kenneth Baker , his predecessor . |
| 25 | It is generally thought that the latter component should be small ( about one-third the concentration of H 2 O 2 ) which , given the lower sensitivity of the instrument for CH 3 OOH ( by a factor of 0.6 ) , implies that the total peroxide signal should approximate that for hydrogen peroxide alone . |
| 26 | Although it is generally supposed that the first truly mechanical escapement was of the verge-and-foliot type found in various church clocks throughout Europe , the earliest escapement of which we have definite detailed knowledge is that of the clock designed for the Abbey of St Albans c.1328 by Richard of Wallingford ( c.1292–1336 ) , the son of a blacksmith , who became Abbot in 1327 . |
| 27 | It is normally posited that the marginal disutility of employment is an increasing function of the actual level of employment . |
| 28 | It is already known that the normal reader has at his or her disposal two very different procedures ( two very different sets of mental operations ) for accomplishing the conversion of print to speech . |
| 29 | It is usually assumed that the ineffable in art is beyond the province of the professional academic scholar . |
| 30 | It is unlikely , though , that a bridge existed here in pre-Roman times , since it is usually argued that the first Roman crossing at the famous battle of the Medway took place further upstream towards Maidstone . |