Example sentences of "is [adv] that the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is rather that the idea and ideal is always likely to function as a corrective to complacency rather than as a prop to It . |
| 2 | The first type of usage , that where the infinitive is non-realized ( He tried to get free ) , would appear to arise when the movement denoted by to is not carried to its end-point , i.e. when only the beginning of the movement signified by to is actualized : The second type , where the sense is rather that the infinitive 's event is actually realized ( He managed to get free ) , seems to arise where the speaker has actualized the whole of the movement signified by to , thus reaching the point where the realization of the infinitive event takes place . |
| 3 | The rationale for UDCs is presumably that the scale of urban decline necessitates the creation of independent , centrally-appointed development agencies that are free from the apparent constraints of local government . |
| 4 | If there are any sources available to the Government that disprove that figure , it is right that the Minister should put those sources to the House . |
| 5 | Forster is right that the correlation between the variables is far from perfect ; the data points are spread quite widely to either side of the line . |
| 6 | Surely it is right that the House should be able to question the shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer about his apparent differences of opinion with his hon. Friend the Member for Derby , South ( Mrs. Beckett ) . |
| 7 | It is merely that the choice is made to run it as a self-contained entity and the appropriate structure thus created for it . |
| 8 | This is not to say that the researcher simply becomes the handmaid of the practitioner ; it is merely that the researcher who is not prepared to learn from the practitioner is arrogant and lacking in insight . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The implication of these observations for our discussion is that whereas with going to a movement towards the realization of the accompanying infinitive 's event is represented as being under way , with will there is no idea of a movement towards this event ( i.e. of something existing before it in time ) : the impression is merely that the potentiality for the infinitive 's event already exists , and will be actualized if certain conditions are met . |
| 11 | Whereas the earlier section requires that the language or conduct be used ‘ towards another person , ’ the section currently under consideration does not do so ; it is enough that the language be broadcast generally . |
| 12 | Indeed , if the effect of the exchange 's rules is only that the member is liable to other members ( or the clearing house ) as a principal , he may actually be dealing as an agent in any event , and his client may be able to read through the contract to the market . |
| 13 | ‘ No , ’ said Aline , suddenly serious , ‘ it is only that the step from perfectly ordinary things into the miraculous seems to me so small , almost accidental , that I wonder why it astonishes you at all , or why you trouble to reason about it . |
| 14 | This is so that the crowd can give him a fair judgement . |
| 15 | The reason for this is so that the recipient can see at a glance what the letter is about . |
| 16 | This is so that the energy can be made to travel a much greater distance . |
| 17 | The the the difference is perhaps that the scientist will analyse |
| 18 | He was certainly not purporting to compile a representative list of ‘ extra-hazardous ’ activities — though one of the fundamental problems about Rylands v. Fletcher is perhaps that the law has never made up its mind whether the rule is aimed at such activities . |
| 19 | The surface construction which realizes ( 21 ) is that seen in ( 22 ) , although it is more common to find the serial order of the second and third elements reversed ; this does not change their relationships in terms of intensional qualification : ( 22 ) It is curious that the verb and the adjective are so often separated in surface structure ; the reason is perhaps that the noun phrase object is " pulled " into the position immediately following the verb because , in the vast majority of transitive verb phrases , that is where the object is found . |
| 20 | The first reason is obviously that the performance of , say , the syntactic component depends on the performance of other , lower-level components . |
| 21 | What has changed is that a convention has developed as to how and when this power is exercised and the modern position is thus that the monarch has , except in the most unusual circumstances and even then only doubtfully so , no discretion as to when Parliament shall be called and disbanded . |
| 22 | This would be represented in the diagram by moving from point A to point C. The converse is true because if a school loses pupils ( represented by moving from point A to point B ) it is not that the school spends any more on fixed costs but because of the reduction in pupils and hence funding , fixed costs take a larger proportion of the available budget . |
| 23 | The eleventh-century claim that Merewalh , king of the Magonsaete , was also a son of Penda can not be authenticated , even though in the 740s Aethelbald , king of the Mercians , appears to describe Mildrith ( later regarded as the daughter of Merewalh and Aebbe ( Eafe ) , a Kentish princess ) as his kinswoman ( CS 177 : S 91 ) ; and the likelihood is not that the Magonsaete were a Mercian creation but that Mercian control was being imposed upon their territory across the mid-seventh century . |
| 24 | The argument is not that the check is fallible , for if it were we might still hope that enough memories could be got to prop each other up , as Ayer suggests ( Ayer , 1954 ) . |
| 25 | The result is not that the user of the aid hears the phone conversation , but rather that there is a loud hum which drowns out everything else . |
| 26 | It is not that the coin is of a fixed weight , since lumps of bullion can and often are produced to a specific weight standard . |
| 27 | The reason why we do not notice surface tensions in solids is not that the surface tensions are weak but rather that solids are too rigid to be visibly distorted by them . |
| 28 | It is not that the law claims that one ought to obey the law come what may . |
| 29 | Again , the precise effects of British imperial domination are inevitably matters of dispute ( Kumar and Desai , 1983 ) and it is important to emphasize that the claim here is not that the level of present development of the regions of the Third World in question is simply the outcome of their colonial experience , but that it is difficult to understand the nature of this underdevelopment and the continuing exploitation of these countries within the international economic order without a grasp of the imperial impact . |
| 30 | It is not that the question of the ordination of women is being considered for the first time in our day ! |