Example sentences of "is [adv] [adj] [that] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is most unlikely that a mother or father looking at a new-born child will be saying : — ‘ We have here a potential villain , who could , in a few years time be getting a living by robbery , violence or some other criminal activity . |
| 2 | In very serious cases , where it is highly likely that a series of medical reports will be necessary , the first report can be obtained from the treating surgeon . |
| 3 | The problem is that it is highly improbable that a group of patients with brain injury constitute a natural kind , even when they display similar symptoms on some test or other . |
| 4 | And , it would not work because the arrangement 2x + y does not provide a means of bringing accountability to bear on the performance of management : for it is highly improbable that a group of people which is primarily a derivative from two opposed and irreconcilable interests can effectively be called to account by either ; and the addition of a third group accountable to no one further confounds the confusion . |
| 5 | Of course , you may reasonably point out , it is highly unlikely that a child would eat delphinium seeds . |
| 6 | There is usually little difficulty in establishing a good business reason , since without it it is highly unlikely that a company would wish to relocate . |
| 7 | Besides , it is highly unlikely that a murderer would attend his victim 's funeral . |
| 8 | As a result it is highly unlikely that a party with a serious commitment to any substantial change in the institutional form of the market would ever get elected as it would be portrayed and perceived as being ‘ too extreme ’ . |
| 9 | The resemblance is so close that a human can easily mistake the new song for the sound of a trimphone . |
| 10 | Indeed , the machine is so massive that a tokamak reactor would need something like 17 times as much material to produce the same power output as a pressurised-water reactor . |
| 11 | In order to support this position , one has to accept : ( i ) that the intention — recklessness distinction is the most significant dividing line for serious injuries , more relevant than factors such as premeditation or provocation ; ( ii ) that this is a workable distinction for the courts , especially in impulsive crimes , where the definition of intention may be fulfilled by a momentary realization of what is happening ; ( iii ) that it is so significant that a difference in maximum penalties between life imprisonment and five years ' imprisonment is appropriate ; and ( iv ) that there is not a strong case for phrasing the offences in terms of endangerment rather than of causing physical harm . |
| 12 | The informal organisation of a company is so important that a newcomer has to ‘ learn the ropes ’ before he can settle effectively into his job , and he must also become ‘ accepted ’ by his fellow workers . |
| 13 | Perhaps the target is so unrealistic that a short-fall is inevitable . |
| 14 | Sometimes the scar tissue is so thick that a couple never truly manage intimacy again . |
| 15 | This distinction has to be made because , although loans may be redeemed over 60 years , it is extremely unlikely that a financing instrument could be found which would mature in 60 years ' time . |
| 16 | If so , it is perhaps surprising that a threat of a mere breach of contract should give rise to liability . |
| 17 | It is perhaps ironic that a financier whose fortunes had foundered on the unreliability of the royal credit should have busied himself three years after his bankruptcy with devising a project for a national bank whose impracticability his own fate had spectacularly demonstrated . |
| 18 | The power of the microcomputer , with its television screen , in affecting the classroom situation is such that it is less likely that a teacher can bend a unit away from its designer 's intentions towards his own style and purpose than is the case with printed material . |
| 19 | After the 1979 Conservative victory , it is less clear that a party will suffer if it advocates policies which are a clear break with the past . |
| 20 | It is morally certain that a number of persons signed confessions to crimes of which they were innocent . |
| 21 | It is just possible that a diet too low in certain foods will produce iron and calcium deficiency . |
| 22 | Valerie Howarth , executive director of ChildLine , said : ‘ It is totally unacceptable that a judge should suggest that a child is responsible for sexual abuse perpetrated upon her . ’ |
| 23 | It is hardly surprising that a passage of Ovid is described in his Notes as ‘ of great anthropological interest ’ . |
| 24 | It is hardly surprising that a number of commentators wish to see an agreement with the banks on what assurances they can give , before the ED becomes a standard . |
| 25 | Reading section 4 of the Act with the other relevant interpretative sections , it is hardly surprising that a number of people connected with the children 's hearing system saw the Act as a major handicap to their work . |
| 26 | Hence it is hardly probable that a group of remarks about the first four groups could place any restriction on the nature of the two later groups , and thus there is a lot of room for an invalidating counter-example to the principle of closure . |
| 27 | If the mother denigrates her husband , it is more likely that a boy will become particularly anxious ( Wolff , 1983b ) . |
| 28 | It is more likely that a kid will die than reach sexual maturity at three years old . |
| 29 | It is more likely that a family will lie somewhere on the continuum between these positions in its behaviour patterns . |
| 30 | It is more likely that a valuation will not be required before , for instance , a later disposal of the asset by the transferee . |