Example sentences of "is [adv] that [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not , stresses Pavitt , that the UK has abruptly ceased to invest in computer hardware and software in the current recession , it is rather that companies which invest prudently , for example , in a better accounts receivable system to improve their cash flow , are likely to outweigh the number of competitive advantage go-getters . |
| 2 | It is right that students be initiated into the conceptual apparatus , skills and ways of going on within the teacher 's own discipline ; and it is right that students therefore acquire the discipline required for the necessary understanding and competencies . |
| 3 | It is right that students be initiated into the conceptual apparatus , skills and ways of going on within the teacher 's own discipline ; and it is right that students therefore acquire the discipline required for the necessary understanding and competencies . |
| 4 | While the above judgment confirms what the Society and , presumably , its members have understood all along , it is right that members should be notified about the matter . |
| 5 | He is right that parents as well as young people should know the dangers , and I will refer my hon. Friend 's suggestions to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department . |
| 6 | Of course he is right that funerals are often rather gloomy , and it can be quite a bore to visit people in hospital . |
| 7 | So I think the scenario within , within the Health Service is basically that units , rather than working together , working in with each other , are actually competing to achieve contracts to , to , to secure work . |
| 8 | This arises not only from potential changes of field ( where student preferences are not guaranteed — the contractual baseline is merely that students are enabled to complete the fields upon which they originally registered ) but more significantly from the changing pattern of extra-field choice . |
| 9 | If the content of a putatively infallible belief is merely that things are looking that way to me now , there is clearly less room for error than if I were to risk the belief that that way is pink . |
| 10 | It is not necessary to establish loss or injury to an individual or a group ; it is enough that losses are sustained . |
| 11 | This is so that members of the public will know who they are talking to . |
| 12 | Head to visitor : " The purpose of school uniform is so that pupils have a pride in belonging to the school . " |
| 13 | If convention is silent there is no law , and the force of that negative claim is exactly that judges should not then pretend that their decisions flow in some other way from what has already been decided . |
| 14 | The assumption here is that ‘ when [ a driver ] happens to feel subjective risk or fear he often tends immediately to eliminate this feeling by certain behavioural changes ’ ( Summala , 1976 , p.239 ) , a major cause of accidents is thus that drivers have too high a ‘ subjective risk threshold ’ . |
| 15 | It is just that gentlemen are Well , it does not do , you see , to be too much apart . |
| 16 | It is just that politicians in power do show a tendency to become rather bogged down by the business in hand , and battered women , ill-educated toddlers and the tax status of child-minders have , for perfectly understandable reasons , so far not succeeded in exercising their imaginations . |
| 17 | One reason for this is probably that subjects who were not told the overall theme of the passage until the end were able to draw on their knowledge of similar stories which they had heard before . |
| 18 | The answer is probably that workers come a lot cheaper in China , but the money they have saved that way could surely have been doubled in extra sales — not to mention saving on shipping costs — if they had been made in a British factory . |
| 19 | The difference is partly that gifts and the offence-vengeance cycle are routes to intragenerational mobility , while exchanges of women and wives have more to do with intergenerational mobility . |
| 20 | The fundamental belief of Dr William Glasser 's Control Theory is similarly that feelings are the product of choice of perception . |
| 21 | These are essentially meant to be measures of productivity and of service quality , and the idea is both that targets be set , and that analysis of outcomes be presented . |
| 22 | In previous generations it was much less likely than it is now that grandparents would have lived to know their grandchildren as adults ( see chapters 2 and 3 ) . |
| 23 | It is here that efforts have been made to open up resources to working-class communities and/or to provide access into educational institutions . |
| 24 | It is here that theorisations which see the nuclear family as a means for controlling the working class in the ‘ interests of capitalism ’ can be seen to be inadequate . |
| 25 | It is here that fathers play an important part . |
| 26 | It is here that techniques of various kinds are put into action to achieve practical learning outcomes . |
| 27 | And you 'll remember that that the definition of gating is simply that channels switch between open and closed states , they gate open or closed . |
| 28 | One in seven primary-school children now suffers from asthma — but the Government 's response is simply that children who are at risk should be kept indoors when air quality is poor . |
| 29 | Another version puts things differently , arguing that men 's way of speaking is not intrinsically more credible/authoritative , what happens is simply that men can use their socially dominant position to claim linguistic privileges . |
| 30 | If the proposition we start out with is simply that men exist — which , we are told , should be more appropriately expressed as ( Ex ) x is a man — then no doubt sooner or later we shall run into Jones and will be able to proclaim the happy discovery . |