Example sentences of "is [adv] that a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our conclusion , overall , is rather that a large book on Greece was not a serious possibility for long , if at all ; that the actual book written was , in an important sense , Wagnerian from the start ; but that , notwithstanding the extent of Wagner 's influence , there is no good reason to suppose that Nietzsche ever went against his own inclinations for Wagner 's sake , whether by adding material , changing it or suppressing it . |
| 2 | But for a handful of obvious reasons , Lewis does not draw a picture of ‘ the whole man ’ in Surprised by Joy It is partly that a natural reticence made him draw a veil over the two greatest facts of his emotional history : his relationships with his father and Mrs Moore . |
| 3 | It is here that a massive scoreboard confronts the players , the numbers changed slowly , tantalisingly , by hand . |
| 4 | It is here that a true designing system will be based and will grow from an understanding of the conceptual activities , how they are developed and controlled . |
| 5 | It is here that an individual anthropomorphic interpretation of each animal enters the process and overlays generalised documentation . |
| 6 | It is here that an anthropological observing participation comes into its own , for in living with the semantics of the system the analyst has the potential to undertake a rarely used method of social research . |
| 7 | The sentiment expressed in the phrase is simply that a strong EC should lay these foundations for the whole continent . |
| 8 | It is simply that a permissive culture which makes increasingly fewer demands on the egos and superegos of its citizens where self-restraint , postponement of gratification and drive-inhibition in general are concerned must — unless it is to dissolve in anarchy — abrogate those restraining , controlling and inhibiting functions to itself and to its agencies of social control . |
| 9 | If screams do not cause a single person to react , what hope is there that a small , silent television screen in a bank of twenty-one such screens will be more effective ? |