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

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1 What is clear is that we need another ball control , distribution player , it is unfair for Macca be responsible for us all the time and besides teams can do what Ipswich did to him and mark him out of the game in the forward areas .
2 Mr Taylor said : ‘ What is clear is that we have come closer together .
3 What makes us interesting is that we have a right side of the brain as well .
4 The only thing that 's ever wrong with saying something you believe to be false is that you do it in order to mislead someone whom you think will believe what you say .
5 They 're unique and what makes them unique is that they do not know it . ’
6 The reason this seems paradoxical is that we place so much emphasis on natural selection as the driving force of evolution .
7 So as you said the danger is that it 's not balanced for our delegates and the ideal is that we want the combination of all four .
8 For the trouble with the great and the good is that we expect them to be on duty the whole time .
9 Teachers commonly believe that the reason they are so tired is that they have so much to do .
10 Now if we just look at the er test statistics for this particular model , right , if we chose say the five percent significance level right , then we can see serial correlation , we 've got a test statistic of two point zero eight , right , we would n't reject the null hypothesis there , the null is that we have no serial correlation , we have uncorrelated errors right , clearly we want uncorrelated errors , right , so we 'd be quite happy with that particular test statistic , it does n't exceed the er five percent critical value .
11 What 's disturbing is that we have a narrow industrial base .
12 What is certainly important is that we maintain the support of our investors ( who in fact own the company ) and satisfy them that their investment objectives are being , or will be , achieved .
13 What is more important is that we have to confront our fears and prejudices which may prevent open and supportive discussions about this new health problem .
14 ‘ But what is important is that we do not lose these sort of players from our game because of these things .
15 The other thing that is important is that I do n't think you can get anything on the cheap .
16 ‘ You have disturbed a burial site all right but what is important is that you do n't disturb it further , ’ he advised .
17 What is important is that you realise that that number is minus one that number is one plus one if you like but you do n't need to say it but if th any , if the sign is n't there it 's assumed that it 's plus .
18 Another sense in which you 're anti-humanist is that you have no truck with ideas of personal ( or social ) progress — people achieving self-sufficiency and fullness of being by becoming more ‘ conscious ’ .
19 The most immediate is that they take up oxygen from water to support their respiration and produce carbon dioxide .
20 What is absolutely erm essential is that we do more to provide good quality support teaching materials and advice and that the grant that I mentioned earlier is made full use of , so that specialisms and co-ordination can be much improved in primary schools .
21 But the essential is that we have money .
22 One thing really is erm absolutely essential is that you do have a consistent and uniform marketing plan .
23 She reckons the real reason the Japanese are so successful is that they have always incorporated a spiritual approach in business .
24 But what I 've got booked is that I finish when 's Christmas ?
25 What they have in common is that we have qualms about both ‘ The sea is blue ’ and ‘ The lines are unequal ’ .
26 And er as probably er you gathered Stan and I are both ex-policemen in relation to erm to er our our background and er I think I said yesterday to the er some of the guys as well , one of the things that lorry drivers and policemen do have very much in common is that we have pr probably one the shortest erm pension lives of most professions .
27 One reason for them being so common is that they reproduce at a high rate , and their high reproduction rate is one of the main topics of this chapter .
28 In truth there are liquid acrylics of varying viscosity and therefore suitable for different uses , but the one thing which they all have in common is that they open up acrylic work to the whole field of design and illustration and offer other useful techniques for the fine artist .
29 Now at least they are in the same boat , and the balancing of the pronouns in the last four lines declares their equality : I have quoted extensively from that sonnet in order to give the full context for this Our : what they have in common is that they have sinned , each has betrayed the other .
30 One reason that many teachers find the idea of teaching in role worrying is that they feel that once they have embarked on a role they will have to stick with it for the rest of the lesson .
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