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

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1 What is clear is that for different reasons the Nordic states were disinclined to pursue closer economic integration wholeheartedly , or were at least following their customary practice of slow and cautious deliberation to try to pinpoint and resolve in advance any possible difficulties .
2 What is increasingly clear is that for a large number of headhunters in the major eight firms — and many of the more profitable smaller ones — this functional or industry specialisation is a key to success .
3 What is clear is that for [ Whitehouse ] and others like her , there is a determination to restore a Christian culture to Britain , and in that battle the greater availability of sexually explicit cultural forms , the easier access to abortion and divorce , the legitimation of homosexuality between consenting adults and so on are developments which must at all costs not only be stemmed but at some ill-defined date in the future actually reversed .
4 What is clear is that under an Awlad Amira administration Tibbu did not seem to have acquired any of those ordinary benefits which were available to Zuwaya .
5 What is undoubtedly clear is that during these years Henry 's power was still steadily advancing , though most modern writers tend to create the false impression of a king entirely preoccupied with the awkward domestic problem of the quarrel with Thomas Becket .
6 What is quite clear is that after the death of Lanfranc the English monks felt free to assert themselves in ways that would have been impossible while Lanfranc lived .
7 What is clear is that behind the brilliance of the official Court there lay a core of family — one is tempted to say bourgeois — life , but this is not , of course , how the Second Empire is remembered , for few even of the courtiers were admitted to the intimacy of the Imperial family and the general public not at all .
8 It is difficult to know about the social morality of the peasantry in the early part of the Tokugawa period , but what is clear is that by the 1850s a relatively homogeneous set of social norms prevailed throughout the peasant class , and that their value system was strongly influenced by the agrarian experience .
9 What is already clear is that in order to discharge some areas of responsibility there will be a need for an increase in personnel such as inspectors , and additional support for financial management and monitoring .
10 This is that for your Lordships ' House to recognise such a principle would overstep the boundary which we traditionally set for ourselves , separating the legitimate development of the law by the judges from legislation .
11 The reason for this is that for a vocabulary of size L , there exist Li-1 different histories .
12 The most obvious explanation for this is that during his years away from home , he would develop a large number of relatively weak ties : in such circumstances , the in-group alternant would cease to have any function for him and so could be abandoned .
13 An example of this is that under most standard forms the supervising officer has wide-ranging powers to issue instructions .
14 This is that within a structure X Y based on assignment , the surface realization of instances of qualification within X ( however many there may be ) will tend to be such that subordinate items will precede , and within Y such that they follow the item qualified , provided in each case that no further instance of assignment supervenes .
15 A main reason for this is that by comparison its history is so brief .
16 The implication of this is that in some kinds of library the librarian acknowledges a degree of responsibility to his users , who may not themselves know whether a particular item contains reliable information .
17 The reason for this is that in the A monomer , the turn of the β -hairpin is stabilized by intermolecular crystal contacts , mainly through hydrophobic interactions involving Val87 and Ala89 .
18 The upshot of this is that in this sense of " power " as of many like terms-it is at least arguable not only that a cause has a power to produce its effect , but also that an effect has a power to produce its cause .
19 One reason for this is that in the simpler forms of legal system the ideas of ultimate rule of recognition , supreme criterion , and legally unlimited legislature seem to converge .
20 One way of conceiving of this is that in any period there are in some islands a greater than average number of demanders , and in others a smaller number than average .
21 Broadly , the reason for this is that in smaller populations the selection of an extreme value for the sample would have a greater effect on the calculation of any value for that sample if the sample was also small as a ratio of the population .
22 The problem with this is that in doing so you are taking a risk : perhaps you are misunderstanding what you read , and so your notes become an incorrect version of what was said .
23 The reason I am interested is that at that time I was off work for six months and I suspected I had the illness .
24 What is interesting is that for the first time individual patrols would have radio communication via jeep-mounted No. 11 radio sets , but in the event of breakdowns they would also each take two pigeons .
25 What is so interesting is that despite that disastrous performance , Labour 's policies have hardly altered — and they would have the same effect again .
26 Another is that at international level , scrummaging comes first and activity which may become possible in the loose comes second .
27 What 's amazing is that in France they do all these blood tests throughout your pregnancy .
28 The second is that for many EFL teachers , the material and tangible aspects of employment are not the only standards they apply .
29 The second is that from the Cherwell boathouse to the point where the tragedy occurred is a distance of over two and a half miles , including a strenuous portage , and took us nearly an hour .
30 Second is that by ordering ahead of conventionally-defined need , the CEGB is comparing the economics of investing in Sizewell with the economics of doing nothing , that is maintaining old plant .
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