Example sentences of "is more [adj] [is] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is more encouraging is that in the same survey the Scottish average rating was 198 against a UK average of six . |
| 2 | ‘ What I think is more possible is that I 'm right . ’ |
| 3 | What is more surprising is that differentials by housing tenure are even more substantial . |
| 4 | What is more surprising is that the Nat Bell case has exercised such a mesmeric hold over our jurisprudence even though the premises leading to the conclusion have been rejected . |
| 5 | As a physical description , we expect the passage to contain a large number of physical , concrete nouns ( stakes , bamboo , fences , fishermen , ruins , etc ) but what is more striking is that these concrete nouns are matched by nouns which are more abstract in one way or another . |
| 6 | What is more certain is that the Bishop of Salisbury claims the oath sworn years ago was conditional upon the King 's not marrying his daughter to anyone outside England . |
| 7 | But what is more important is that it outlines the links between casual work and the formal economy , setting these out in terms of declining significance . |
| 8 | But what is more important is that Gale 's book loses much of its impact because the science is not there to anything like the extent it needs to be to make the difficulties of Charles 's position clear . |
| 9 | What is more important is that we have to confront our fears and prejudices which may prevent open and supportive discussions about this new health problem . |
| 10 | What is more important is that the reservation office and front desk have an up-to-the-minute visual picture of the room status of the hotel whatever system is used . |
| 11 | But what is more remarkable is that so many farmers were sentimental ( and some impecunious ) enough to keep their hedgerows in for so long . |
| 12 | Although it is frightening that so many people take Ecstasy to guarantee a ‘ good time ’ , what is more frightening is that it takes a Class A drug for them to feel they can lose their inhibitions . |
| 13 | Now I suppose for most of us because of the very fact were here this morning they have been few and far between such experiences , perhaps what is more common is that we may have spent time with someone who was dying , their last few hours , their last few minutes , and if they were not unconscious I wonder what sort of conversation would be going on between us and them , what sort of things would we , would we of been saying , what would we be asking us , well in this passage that we have been reading we have just such a conversation , two men who are on the verge of death , death can only be hours away for both of them , and here they have this conversation , it was in that sense it was one of the strangest interviews any body ever had with Jesus not only is the , the account here of er a death bed conversion , but the one who is saving is also in the process of dying . |
| 14 | What is more unexpected is that such inequalities have increased over the years . |