Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [is] [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hon. Friend is right that we have the most generous system in the developed world for supporting students . |
| 2 | My hon. Friend is right that this country has the best regulatory system for reducing real phone charges . |
| 3 | My hon. Friend is right that the Labour party would be prepared to overrule parental ballots and to take grant-maintained schools back into the throes of LEA control , which is exactly what parents have voted to escape . |
| 4 | The hon. Gentleman is right that there was a change in 1979 , but for different reasons from those he advanced . |
| 5 | Can I just ask you if your position on the Daily Mirror is still that you 're not at all interested in it , or is there a prospect that you may change your mind when you 've seen the figures from the Mirror ? |
| 6 | However , those who operate the law are well aware that it will only be respected to the extent that it conforms with public opinion : the reason why journalists and broadcasters are not prosecuted much more often for undoubted infringements of the letter of the laws of contempt and official secrecy is simply that the authorities are well aware that up-to-the-hilt enforcement of these vague laws would bring the law into further disrepute , and precipitate precisely the sort of clash between government and the press that it has been the British genius to avoid , whenever possible , by cosy arrangements . |
| 7 | The current official view is therefore that mergers are part and parcel of the competitive process , as opposed to restrictive practices which impede that process . |
| 8 | When women do confront sexism , the glib reply is often that it is a joke . |
| 9 | The corporate concern is therefore that the profit implications of a particular measure are widely understood , and that the legislators are not going to saddle companies struggling for survival with disproportionate costs — or at least , not without the public being made aware of the consequences . |
| 10 | The defence of a firm accused of predatory pricing is often that it is merely responding to competition : so evidence of its intentions may be quite important in deciding whether a firm 's conduct is predatory or not . |
| 11 | Renner ( 1917 ) argued that as ‘ capitalism is now passing from its industrial to its finance-capitalist stage ’ so the old principle of nationality ‘ the democratic , nay revolutionary principle of the unity , freedom , and self-determination of the nation , is over and done with ’ , and the dominant national idea is now that of ‘ national imperialism ’ , promoted by the ruling classes . |
| 12 | The most obvious diagnosis is simply that the initial belief that p , from which the true justified belief that q is inferred , is false . |
| 13 | but a white load 's there that I must put in and must get that put out this afternoon |
| 14 | What empirical evidence is there that might persuade us to give credence to this sharp and absolute distinction ? |
| 15 | If convention is silent there is no law , and the force of that negative claim is exactly that judges should not then pretend that their decisions flow in some other way from what has already been decided . |
| 16 | The difference between the monotonous beat of pop music and the rhythmical architecture of a great symphony is precisely that in classical music the primitive reaction is delayed and denied for a more varied satisfaction . |
| 17 | Apart , then , from those for whom the virtue of representative democracy is precisely that it restricts and restrains popular power , and even , as in Britain , involves the vesting of sovereignty in the representative institutions rather than in the people themselves the chief argument in defence of representative democracy has been an essentially pragmatic one : that it is the best that can be devised in the context of large societies where the citizens are too many and too scattered to be gathered together in one place . |
| 18 | Quinn 's fundamental point is simply that it is foolish to try to produce a total group-wide analysis at a given time and then to go ahead rapidly implementing that , ignoring the changing external and internal environments . |
| 19 | The fundamental argument is again that human beings are still very ‘ basic ’ beings ; that is , they have evolved over millions of years and that what we call civilisation or culture represents only a fraction of human history . |
| 20 | Trace the outlines on to greaseproof or tracing paper , and fix a piece of waxed paper on top of this , securing firmly at the edges — this double layer is so that pencil marks do not attach themselves to the icing and discolour it . |
| 21 | Er I could do but then again would you under er so that you can understand er what the actual recommendations are , the important thing is again that we see you face to face . |
| 22 | This arises not only from potential changes of field ( where student preferences are not guaranteed — the contractual baseline is merely that students are enabled to complete the fields upon which they originally registered ) but more significantly from the changing pattern of extra-field choice . |
| 23 | The classical answer is simply that they are there ; they are taken as given . |
| 24 | Well I I yeah the only point is there that we do require four referees . |
| 25 | Long-term capital is mainly that provided by selling shares as described above and by retaining profits within the company . |
| 26 | Long-term capital is mainly that provided by selling shares as described above and by retaining profits within the company . |
| 27 | But the daft thing is really that there is a , an access into the little play area from there . |
| 28 | If the content of a putatively infallible belief is merely that things are looking that way to me now , there is clearly less room for error than if I were to risk the belief that that way is pink . |
| 29 | … there has been widespread disillusionment with where educational technology is today that … from the pattern of " no significant difference " findings that we have reported in this paper . |
| 30 | It is also worth noting that dealing need not actually take place ; the minimum requirement is merely that the insider had reasonable cause to believe that dealing in the relevant shares would take place . |