Example sentences of "is [adv] [adv] [adj] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is most certainly true that Kenyans must decide their own future , but in this case the Kenyan president has taken a decision which does not serve his people well . |
| 2 | It is rather more likely that clerks had benefit of formal education than knights . |
| 3 | Although it is common knowledge that the authorities sold a great many works of art from Russian museums to foreign buyers during the 1920s and 1930s , it is rather less well-known that the book reserves of Russian libraries were similarly violated . |
| 4 | At some later time they could , by chance , all be in the right half or back in the left half , but it is overwhelmingly more probable that there will be roughly equal numbers in the two halves . |
| 5 | It is altogether more likely that we are faced with an interpolation . |
| 6 | It is all too self-evident that organized Christianity has not always followed the splendid theology which is there at the centre . |
| 7 | It is all too revealing that , searching through the biographical work on Gide for further references to Athman in Europe , I came across hardly anything except the occasional derogatory , passing remark . |
| 8 | As we discuss the changing role of the traditional high-street off-licence , it is all too plain that none of the first six customers have browsed or bought wine or done what the market research says they should be doing . |
| 9 | And yet , on the other hand , it is all too clear that racism still remains a widespread , and possibly intensifying , fact of many people 's lives . |
| 10 | And if we look at the actual fragments , it is all too clear that Nietzsche was right . |
| 11 | Instead of a young person being sentenced to a period in custody , which means that it is all too likely that he or she will continue in a life of crime , become a professional criminal and never get out of the criminal world , the alternative makes both moral and economic sense . |
| 12 | But it is all too evident that there does not exist anywhere at the present time an active political movement which would be capable of initiating such a development , and if such a movement came into existence it would encounter immense difficulties . |
| 13 | It is all too fitting that this anatomy of ‘ the false heart 's history ’ should end with a comparison of the Friend 's beauty to ‘ Eve 's apple ’ : this sequence describes another grave discrepancy between substance and show , another Fall of man . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , it is all too obvious that voluntary agreements among small groups need not be efficient : when the numbers are small , markets are prone to fail . |
| 15 | If , for example , we survey the field of regulation in airline operation , financial services , and so on it is all too obvious that hitherto it is the member state governments that in the main have clung on to their controls and the EC Commission that has been in favour of deregulation and more competition . |
| 16 | According to Lord Deedes , and her husband John who now only plays off 6-handicap , she continues to do the dishes with Fairy liquid and is only mildly interested that tabloid writers are concerned about the injured wrist of Nick Faldo , which threatens to dictate sports pages throughout 1991 . |
| 17 | But the SNP is only too aware that most of its dormant support lies within Labour 's Scottish ranks and that its electoral fortunes are constrained by Labour 's dominance north of the Border . |
| 18 | The group is only too aware that the dangers of conifer plantations are not limited to creating great black tracts of sterile land ( nothing grows beneath their dense needles ) . |
| 19 | It is only too obvious that this balance between action and personal life was intimately bound up with the conditions of clandestine action and could not survive it . |
| 20 | Isotope studies of the small amounts of lead in the unalloyed copper may help to identify the source , but it is only too likely that alloys will contain lead from different ore bodies and thus be unidentifiable . |
| 21 | It is only too evident that the scribes considered gentility the only status worth recording , and even in this they were not consistent ; civic dignity was almost invariably ignored . |
| 22 | In fact , it is only too evident that major political changes have very often resulted from violence , not only in revolutions and counter-revolutions , but also in wars of conquest or of national independence . |
| 23 | A few quotations from his correspondence to friends during the years before its appearance will serve to introduce the main interests and traits in question : " Three things are my relaxations , but infrequent ones : my Schopenhauer , Schumann 's music , and solitary walks " ( from 1866 ) ; " It is only too natural that … concentrating on a particular field of knowledge all day long should somewhat blunt one 's untrammelled receptivity and attack the philosophic sense at its root . |
| 24 | We are hopeful that there will be no surcharges levied whatsoever on the cost of your holiday — but obviously fuel costs , currency movements and governmental action are outside our control , and there is only so much that we are able to absorb . |
| 25 | The Crown argued that , in the same way a deliberate cross-check to the back of the neck might exceed the implied consent to risk of injury in a hockey game , the known presence of HIV is so inherently dangerous that sex with someone who is HIV positive extends beyond the norm of conduct to which one can validly consent . |
| 26 | Yet the world champion is so unpredictably gifted that one on-song display could easily enable her to sweep aside the opposition . |
| 27 | Now this is an argument that is so intellectually contemptible that you can hardly be bothered to demolish it . |
| 28 | Esau 's welcome to the brother who had wronged him is so amazingly generous that Jesus may have had him in mind when he told the story of the prodigal son ( see Luke 15:20 ) . |
| 29 | The simple form of this argument is that new technology is so enormously labour-saving that we will never again need full employment to provide for all our needs . |
| 30 | The protection that she is offered is so grossly inadequate that the Minister should be ashamed that he has done nothing about it . |