Example sentences of "is [adv] [vb pp] that [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thomson is state-owned and though there has been no overt policy statement from the French Government , it is widely accepted that its attitude towards the merger will be at least coloured by the MoD 's decision . |
| 2 | She should then telephone through to the restaurant manager who will be asked to see that Mr Green is discreetly informed that his wife wishes to speak to him at the reception desk . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ( It should be made clear that , in the vast majority of cases , the poison is so aged that its potency is thought to be negligible . ) |
| 5 | These costs of consent to political authority suggest that , on instrumental grounds , consent can only be held binding if it is so qualified that its effect is almost entirely confined to reinforcing independently existing obligations to obey . |
| 6 | the employer is not only provided with maximum assurance that his competitors will make the same settlement that he does ; he is also assured that his competitors will be shut down … when he is shut down , so that he need not reckon on a permanent reduction in market share when calculating the costs of a strike . |
| 7 | For it is often supposed that his attitude towards women stands in stark contrast to that of the surrounding society . |
| 8 | For those who love labels , then , modern British literature in that aspect might conveniently be called Aristophanic — provided , that is , it is well understood that its novelists and playwrights can not be assumed to have taken any attentive interest in ancient Greek comedy , and that coincidence is all it is . |
| 9 | ‘ Lady Isabella , ’ Cranston said smoothly , ‘ it is well known that your husband had strange tastes and foibles . |
| 10 | Rolls-Royce spokesman David Preston said : ‘ It is well known that our sales have been 50 per cent down on what they were in 1990 so any reduction is welcome . ’ |
| 11 | It is sometimes said that our ‘ constitution ’ is now under stress as major changes occur far more rapidly than before in its written and unwritten parts . |
| 12 | However , among their ranks it is universally believed that their leader — Rabbi Menachem Schneerson — will fulfil the Messianic prophecy . |