Example sentences of "is [adj] [is] that " in BNC.

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1 The only cause for celebration tonight is that is that this uprating will be the Secretary of State 's and the Government 's last .
2 It is not unacceptable for an academic to employ a technique developed in industry , but what is strange is that this is combined with a remarkable lack of consideration for the impact of marketing itself .
3 What is strange is that we often accept the opposite : that large benefits naturally carry with them large risks .
4 The reason this is possible is that at the grand unification energy there is no essential difference between a quark and an antielectron .
5 As for the second , we have undermined its apparent logic by approaching from the opposite direction ; what is self-evident is that a person should prefer his reaction in fullest awareness , what would require proof is a claim that the awareness should be from all spatial and temporal but only one personal viewpoint .
6 Where the Good Housekeeping diet is different is that it is more than just a diet .
7 The reason why Excel is different is that it distinguishes between a making an investment and borrowing money .
8 ‘ Last year there were 316,000 visitors to the sites that we police — and what is heartening is that there was not one single complaint against us , ’ emphasised Hugh .
9 What is clear is that the financial cost of alcohol misuse to society as a whole runs into hundreds of millions of pounds each year .
10 What is clear is that this was all one society , in which the wives — like Mrs Lowndes herself — wrote books or maintained salons , while their husbands were functionaries , some of them much in the public eye as ministers of the Crown , others — like Frederic Lowndes — no less influential and esteemed for operating under wraps , as grey eminences .
11 What is clear is that his behaviour was geared to the available audience .
12 What is clear is that once Trodd , a strong and familiar collaborator had gone , dangers crowded in .
13 What is clear is that , in the above passage , he is not making the objection against himself .
14 What is clear is that under an Awlad Amira administration Tibbu did not seem to have acquired any of those ordinary benefits which were available to Zuwaya .
15 However historically authentic ( or not ) this account may be , what is clear is that Hungarians adhered to it for a thousand years after their arrival in the Danubian plain at the beginning of the tenth century .
16 Mr Taylor said : ‘ What is clear is that we have come closer together .
17 What is clear is that it is social activities — such as the provision of kindergartens , youth clubs and advice centres — which would be hit first by any change to the levy .
18 What is clear is that , with few exceptions , the major avenue to career mobility in most countries is through formal post-secondary education .
19 What is clear is that the military origins of nuclear power in this country gave it a powerful boost as an infant technology , and that the umbilical cord has not been severed .
20 What is clear is that behind the brilliance of the official Court there lay a core of family — one is tempted to say bourgeois — life , but this is not , of course , how the Second Empire is remembered , for few even of the courtiers were admitted to the intimacy of the Imperial family and the general public not at all .
21 What is clear is that the court rejected Rees 's argument that the annotation could be kept secret , on the basis of a somewhat heavy-handed assumption of what this would entail .
22 What is clear is that the mechanics of the process , that is , the breaking down of the tissue into discrete blocks , involves an increase in adhesion between the cells in each somite .
23 Numbers are of course too small to draw any conclusion from this finding ; what is clear is that the action project made no evident difference to clients ' cognitive impairment .
24 What is clear is that any newly appointed Director of Finance in an NHS Hospital Trust will be concerned about his inability to price his products .
25 What is clear is that they the system will only work if hospitals really do need to compete with one another to obtain their business .
26 What is clear is that once again it is important to distinguish between the perception of odours per se , here on in referred to as ‘ odour nuisance ’ , which may be a source of annoyance to workers and the existence of toxic odorants in the working environment .
27 What is clear is that they are really describing a continuum rather than separate planes .
28 This is very possible but , what is clear is that the only course open to you is to introduce your ferrets and hope that they will bolt a reasonable number of the occupants , since the depths involved make digging out impossible .
29 What is clear is that she rapidly took in hand the Communist Party cells in the various academic bodies to which she was attached .
30 What is clear is that some — if not all — of the equipment found in the remains of the tent was probably left by Bonington who intended , during his retreat , to go back up to the highest camp .
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