Example sentences of "is [adv] [adj] that [adj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reality is , it is most unlikely that such a merger would be allowed on competition grounds and we believe that a referral to the authorities would be likely to attract great uncertainty to our customers and staff . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It is highly unlikely that such an accident and sequence of events could occur ( at Sizewell ) , ’ he said . |
| 3 | It is less evident that such a strategy would appeal to the daughter of a tradesman , who might after all be able to serve in her father 's shop , or to the daughter of a white-collar worker , to whom the printing trade might appear to be a step down in the world in some respects : inky and dirty , even if requiring literacy . |
| 4 | ‘ It is totally unacceptable that such an organisation should be used to facilitate prostitution and the sexual exploitation of women with its associated high risk of sexually transmitted disease . |
| 5 | The belief is still popular that such a race exists , rather than there merely being a cultural group based on nationalist , republican , and catholic religious sentiment . |
| 6 | It is hardly surprising that such a large percentage of young people ‘ fail ’ in a situation where school work holds little intrinsic value for them or their parents . |
| 7 | It is hardly surprising that such a powerful event as a revolution is necessary to uproot the social order and destroy these institutions . |
| 8 | It is hardly surprising that such a powerful attack on conventional macroeconomic policy as that outlined in the previous chapter has provoked a number of counter-attacks . |
| 9 | It is more likely that such a talent lay in site administration and the guidance of taste rather than in any practical work as craftsman , architect , or mason . |
| 10 | It is almost inconceivable that such a thing could have happened at eight in the morning in such a place . |
| 11 | Mr Alec Jessel , the marketing officer , said : ‘ It is very sad that such an established company has to take such a step , but there was nothing more we could do . |
| 12 | It was built around 1590 for a younger son of the Earl of Shaftesbury , whose family had owned the manor of Restrop for three hundred years , The coat of arms of the Ashley-Coopers ( the Shaftesbury family name ) is over the door , and it is very unlikely that such a very fine house , with its particularly beautiful roofs over the projecting bays , would have been built for a tenant farmer . |