Example sentences of "be [adj] [is] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the reason that the contemporary attacks are different is that the shackling of trade unions was an integral part in Margaret Thatcher 's economic package and if the only reason for this legislation was because it was part of a failed economic strategy then that in itself should be enough , but the real effect of anti-trade union legislation should be examined in the context of a wider social and industrial parameter , and if we take just one Act , the Employment Act of nineteen eighty , we can get some idea of the effect of Tory employment legislation . |
| 2 | A third property which may be universal is that a change of a single molecule can , regularly and predictably , cause large-scale changes in the body . |
| 3 | What must be clear is that no reservation under Article 23 , however worded , can operate to extend the scope of the Convention beyond that established in Article 1 . |
| 4 | What must be true is that no system of predicting good and bad risks — computer credit scoring , personal interview , previous payment history , or any combination of these — can be infallible . |
| 5 | As we have already set zeros to blanks ( in Step 7 ) the outcome of the match being false is that the cell is left blank . |
| 6 | These are both rather ominous examples of hidden agendas , because the reason for being secretive is because the real motive is essentially manipulative . |
| 7 | One I mean one of the reason 's that we 've actually changed these round and and do n't think it 's right is because the has a there 's been a cut cut cost cutting exercise within the building . |
| 8 | As for the second , we have undermined its apparent logic by approaching from the opposite direction ; what is self-evident is that a person should prefer his reaction in fullest awareness , what would require proof is a claim that the awareness should be from all spatial and temporal but only one personal viewpoint . |
| 9 | What 's interesting is that the contrast between the two cities is so great that they could equally well be at opposite ends of the planet . |
| 10 | What is doubtful is whether the survival of those phenomena and the tardiness with which they were abolished actually reinforced the political influence of mob violence . |
| 11 | What is clear is that a significant cultural artifact has become soft and ephemeral . |
| 12 | What is clear is that a business can not claim that its terms were accepted by a trading partner if they were accepted by an employee whom it knows has no authority to accept them . |
| 13 | What is clear is that the financial cost of alcohol misuse to society as a whole runs into hundreds of millions of pounds each year . |
| 14 | What is clear is that the military origins of nuclear power in this country gave it a powerful boost as an infant technology , and that the umbilical cord has not been severed . |
| 15 | What is clear is that the court rejected Rees 's argument that the annotation could be kept secret , on the basis of a somewhat heavy-handed assumption of what this would entail . |
| 16 | What is clear is that the mechanics of the process , that is , the breaking down of the tissue into discrete blocks , involves an increase in adhesion between the cells in each somite . |
| 17 | Numbers are of course too small to draw any conclusion from this finding ; what is clear is that the action project made no evident difference to clients ' cognitive impairment . |
| 18 | This is very possible but , what is clear is that the only course open to you is to introduce your ferrets and hope that they will bolt a reasonable number of the occupants , since the depths involved make digging out impossible . |
| 19 | Be that as it may , what is clear is that the events of 1940 precipitated a popular nationalism which — unlike Tawney 's deferential democracy and Baldwin 's conservative nation — the Left could work with . |
| 20 | What is clear is that the degree to which the reformers achieved their stated aims was muted first of all by a partial backtracking on policy after 1947 under the pressures of worsening relations between the United States and the Soviet Union , and the burden which an economically prostrate Japan placed on the US taxpayer . |
| 21 | What is clear is that the DES , and perhaps even the Inspectorate , portray the task of curriculum review in rather too simplistic a fashion . |
| 22 | What is clear is that the total over six decades ran into tens of thousands . |
| 23 | What is clear is that the Prison Service had failed to persuade these prisoners that it was treating them fairly ’ ( para 9.25 ) . |
| 24 | Whether the confiscation legislation amounts to the forfeiture of the offender 's copyright or merely of the proceeds is not clear but what is clear is that the interplay between the confiscation legislation and the law of copyright requires further examination . |
| 25 | What is clear is that the scale of a large company 's business and the fact that the board meets only periodically , perhaps monthly or even quarterly , mean that it is only the most important decisions that are made at board level . |
| 26 | What is clear is that the most successful computerised personnel systems link payroll and personnel together . |
| 27 | There are other meanings to be drawn from this first sonnet , of course , but what is clear is that the poetic sequence of Astrophil and Stella may be seen announcing itself as a failure , a success , both , or neither . |
| 28 | What is clear is that the rate of increase in unemployment is beginning to slow , and that is very welcome . |
| 29 | What is clear is that the costs of memory and storage devices are decreasing , whilst storage capacity is increasing enormously . |
| 30 | What is clear is that the Act does not apply to conversion or intentional torts against goods by virtue of of the Torts ( Interference With Goods ) Act 1977 , s. 11 . |