Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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1 | To point out that complaining often functions as a self-defence is not to say that the complaint is invalid . |
2 | If the mind is so conceived that its relation to the world can only be a causal one , then to perceive something must be to be causally affected by it . |
3 | As the attacker 's foot lifts from the ground , the defender is immediately warned that a kick is coming . |
4 | The general rule is well established that if a person signs a document which contains contract terms , he/she is bound by those terms , provided that the document was presented for signature before the contract was concluded . |
5 | The rule is firmly established that we may not look at Hansard and in general I agree with it , for reasons which I gave last year in Beswick v. Beswick . |
6 | Nor will it come from exports , which are now falling because the pound is so overvalued that we can not have export success at its present level of valuation . |
7 | Our ambition is also to ensure that the big questions and the difficult questions are asked across a range of issues . |
8 | For example , where a party to a contract has a power or discretion , and this affects the rights of other parties , a term is frequently implied that the power will be exercised in a reasonable manner , or at any rate not arbitrarily or capriciously . |
9 | The cough is there to signal that something is going awry and needs attention after which it will be all right . |
10 | The stabilizing effect of DNA supercoiling on open complex formation is probably reflecting that the torsional stress is favouring the opening of the DNA strands driving the RNA polymerase-promoter complex into a configuration with an increased half-life . |
11 | Foucault is actually arguing that ‘ control ’ need not take place through the direct and constant surveillance of individuals by authorities . |
12 | My position is that the law is so constructed that in all probability , only the lucid , self-assertive patient who has a sympathetic , understanding doctor is able in most circumstances to have his way and be left alone , free from further interference , to die . |
13 | The law is now settled that either intention or recklessness as to the respective conduct elements is sufficient . |
14 | Nevertheless his choreographic plan is so designed that each movement of every dancer , whether as an individual or part of the group , is co-ordinated with the others so that it fits correctly into the overall pattern and within the space allotted by stage , wings and backcloth which — in Symphonic Variations — delicately echoes the curving lines or the dance . |
15 | The new equipment is so advanced that , theoretically , a single IECC could handle BR 's entire signalling requirements . |
16 | The Guild is now advocating that further steps should be taken , namely , that women should be made eligible for seats on town councils . |
17 | However , there is still a slight difference between closely related people with similar habits , and among others the difference is so pronounced that even we can detect it . |
18 | Boxtree is now claiming that Mr Bean 's Diary has sold so well ( over 314,000 copies when I last spoke to them ) because it is being bought by , and given to , children and teenagers . |
19 | Stressing these elements of continuity is not to imply that nothing changed . |
20 | His aim is not to show that one way of acquiring knowledge is better than another , but that ‘ learning and human knowledge are weak and uncertain' . |
21 | One torso is so weathered that little can be said but that it does seem to show the same primitive technique as Nikandre 's . |
22 | Women who grow excess facial and body hair often find that their confidence is so destroyed that they would benefit from psychological counselling , according to the Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin . |
23 | The group is also demanding that a strip of virgin forest along the Burmese border be included in the designation . |
24 | In being bred intensively for colours and scents , so much vigour is often lost that in order to realize its full potential a plant needs to have the much more vigorous upthrust of a ‘ wild ’ rootstock pushed into it . |
25 | The point is frequently made that if bus fares were set at a reasonable level , buses would be used more often and public safety would be greater . |
26 | s The point is not to prove that officials are everywhere politically dominant . |
27 | Your point is well taken that a percentage of those will go on to a transmural infarct , but I have difficulty in understanding these figures in relation to an expected mortality for sub-endocardial infarction of around 5–6% . |
28 | He adds , however , that to recognize the point is only to recognize that testing is what matters . |
29 | To reject the picture is not to suggest that people did not have a very real experience of God . |
30 | The concept of equisignificance can now be easily explained , for to say of two symbols that they have the same meaning is merely to say that they both express the same species of thought . |