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

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1 What is important is not that members of the capitalist class participate directly in the state apparatus , but that the relation between bourgeoisie and state is ‘ objective ’ .
2 In many historical accounts , it is stated that late ME [ a ] developed into [ ae ] in the early seventeenth century ( it does not matter here what date is cited ; what is important is simply that a relatively exact date is cited ) .
3 What is incontrovertible is only that I had it , not that it was caused by anything ‘ out there ’ beyond my experience .
4 What is surprising is not that the rural past should be called up , but that the writer should invest it with the imaginative and emotional power that he does .
5 In the face of such obstacles , what is surprising is not that the movement for an alternative Government failed .
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