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 | The reason I am interested is that at that time I was off work for six months and I suspected I had the illness . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | What is so interesting is that despite that disastrous performance , Labour 's policies have hardly altered — and they would have the same effect again . |
| 13 | What 's amazing is that in France they do all these blood tests throughout your pregnancy . |
| 14 | What is so sad is that through all the tinsel shines a reality , but we can not seem to grasp it . |
| 15 | In the court case of June 1790 , Henry Cecil was awarded £1000 damages and a divorce , but what makes the whole story so remarkable is that by this time he was already secretly remarried . |
| 16 | What is particularly frightening is that in the long term it may cause irreparable brain damage . |
| 17 | What is becoming increasingly obvious is that in a society growing ever more stressful and complex , we can not hope to educate children as though they were immune to the social , economic and emotional stresses which their parents have to bear . |
| 18 | What is more encouraging is that in the same survey the Scottish average rating was 198 against a UK average of six . |
| 19 | But what is most extraordinary is that in all these little villages and towns there are Stars and Stripes displayed everywhere , usually in association with the red , white and blue of the Czech flag . |
| 20 | What is important is that in Walter 's action the hammer is mounted on the key , but the escapement and the check are not . |
| 21 | The result of the above is that in one case costs are so high as to detract from its use , whereas the other positively attracts business . |
| 22 | 6.7 The thing which all the adjectives of the sort found in ( 33 ) have in common is that on the intensional level they qualify the relation between the entity identified by the noun phrase in which they appear and the description supported by the words making up the remainder of that phrase . |
| 23 | Another aspect which the two modes do appear to have in common is that in neither mode is the participant required to concentrate on the emotion itself ( another reason why Cemrel has got it wrong ) . |
| 24 | What they do have in common is that in all cases industry will be looking for the location where it can make the best profit . |
| 25 | Bearing that in mind , we find ourselves setting whole group dramas on spaceships or sailing ships , in medieval castles , on expeditions ; and what all these have in common is that within the setting it is comparatively easy to ensure that each participant has an essential role ; we can easily create a chain of dependency , to ensure that each child feels they have a stake in the drama . |
| 26 | However , what has often gone unnoticed is that in most cases this does not happen and , even more interesting , in some the outcome is what has been called ‘ outstanding ’ ; that is to say , the individual turns out to be a highly competent and sometimes very creative adult . |
| 27 | What is even more odd is that like the AV the STV is allowed to retain its original unitary value however often it is transferred and whatever its preferential status . |
| 28 | The reason this is possible is that at the grand unification energy there is no essential difference between a quark and an antielectron . |
| 29 | But what is most striking is that by adopting the voice of the Psalm , Herbert is also adopting the voice of a king ( and a shepherd ) as the Psalm was presented as being authored by a divinely inspired King David . |
| 30 | What is indisputable is that as an undergraduate and then as a research worker for Child Poverty Action Group , far from regarding such evidence as ‘ defeatist talk ’ you not only accepted it but added to it . |