Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] is that " in BNC.

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1 One of the advantages of shooting a video like this one is that the events group themselves quite naturally into sequences which advance the story in a way which your audience will have no difficulty in following .
2 The difficult part about this one is that people all have odd shaped heads , now and you find that if you put them on too high they squidge off like that , and you 've got to think of bandaging an egg basically , if you had an egg with a little hole in one end and you 've got to put a bandage round you 'd have to put it very carefully round the widest bit would n't you for it to stay firm and that 's the secret , everyone 's heads different and as you put it round you 've got to see where you can get it , where , sometimes it 's over the ears , sometimes it 's above the ears according to the peoples ' shaped , different shaped heads everyone 's different , anything else ?
3 Erm , the advantage of this one is that you can , it 's obviously just plain memo sheet , you can insert a page from this pad into any diary spread , and it would n't mask the date information at the top .
4 Yeah , what I like , the thing with this one is that we would n't have again would we ?
5 Well , I , I , the , the , the great thing about it , and this is , this is where so many press releases go wrong , the great thing about this one is that it is brevity .
6 He also failed to protect his people : if anything is clear it is that , and it can not have increased his popularity .
7 And there 's another side to that which is that some people in the statutory provision are in it for the money , for their careers , for empire building and so on .
8 When it comes to flavour , the difference between a TFTA turkey and a standard one is that a traditional bird is hung for at least seven days .
9 the second one is that er we want to make sure that the policies you do have are doing the job that they were initially designed to do , and it 's thirteen years since you er took out the policy
10 The second one is that there is proper provision erm available for erm the particular disabilities which the children have within the ordinary school , that the other children in the school also receive proper provision — you can see what 's in the mind of the drafters of the bill there , that if you have some children who could potentially be disruptive , then they might in fact make it very difficult to educate children without these special handicaps .
11 The chief one is that it is a very salient stereotype popularly characterized as non-standard or ‘ vulgar ’ , and is extremely widespread in England and Wales .
12 ‘ Now that we know British food is just about the worst in the world , ’ says Jonathon Porritt , director of Friends of the Earth UK , ‘ how ironic it is that we and other rich nations are exporting fat and sugar to starving people in Africa and Asia .
13 When you come to think about it , how amazing it is that a singer whose recording career lasted only seven years ( where Decca is concerned ) could produce enough material to fill ten CDs even allowing for the addition of much off-the-air material , and excluding Das Lied von der Erde , the Klemperer Kindertotenlieder and Mahler 's Second , and Brahms 's Liebesliederwalzer , the last three just issued on three further discs in Decca 's Historic series .
14 Grey breath in the air , snowmen on the heath , pub bores droning on about how typical it is that a few inches of snow throws the whole country into chaos when the Swiss handle metres of the stuff without missing a beat .
15 How fortunate it is that enthusiasts such as Col. Savill have accumulated a wealth of material illustrating the railway scene .
16 Jennie explained how crucial it is that a rider can use his aids independently of each other .
17 Make a comment on stage even , for Christ 's sake , about how sad it is that we 're staring down the barrel of a gun at a fuck of a lot of young corpses , widowed wives and fatherless children ?
18 Make a comment on stage even , for Christ 's sake , about how sad it is that we 're staring down the barrel of a gun at a fuck of a lot of young corpses , widowed wives and fatherless children ?
19 Nevertheless , the longer you look , the more the qualities and character of the tomb become apparent and the clearer it is that the architect was not simply trying to imitate the Taj and failing .
20 ‘ And Mama has written to say how grateful she is that we 'll be able to see how the old house has stood up to the war and cope with any disasters for her . ’
21 The difference between a direct hot water cylinder and an indirect one is that the latter has a heat exchanger , often in the form of a coiled pipe , which takes the hot water from the boiler and passes its heat to the domestic hot water in the cylinder , the two never mixing .
22 The first and obvious one is that a leaf can grow across the reference area .
23 Otherwise it may be difficult to appreciate how very natural it is that things should have turned out as they did . )
24 If they were not told the embarrassing source of these words — and perhaps even if they were — most Asians would give a vigorous nod of approval to the sentiments expressed by Neville Chamberlain when Germany annexed the Sudetenland in 1938 : ‘ How horrible , fantastic , incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing . ’
25 The more firmly he tells them and the country that , as Prime Minister , he and not they will rule , the more likely it is that he will eventually reach Downing Street .
26 The more people get used to prodding , weighing and evaluating new planning proposals , the less likely it is that the Hammersmith effect will spread further .
27 The method concerns itself both with what the underlying unit actually is , and also with how likely it is that we are observing a real effect rather than some random one .
28 The more serious the violation by the police and the less serious the charge the more likely it is that the evidence will be inadmissible , though there are occasions in Scotland where crucial evidence has been struck out in serious cases which include murder .
29 how likely it is that you personally will be affected by the cutbacks ;
30 The greater , therefore , is the information provider 's knowledge and understanding of those specific tasks and contexts , the more likely it is that the information provided will be valued and used .
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