Example sentences of "is [adv] that [ex0] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not to suggest that consistency is an unworthy value : the argument is rather that there is a need to decide upon the categories to which the argument of consistency is being applied , and above all to recognize that simple resort to the allegation of inconsistency might serve to conceal the conflict between a number of social interests or principles . |
| 2 | It is rather that there is a fundamental difference in the distribution of syntactic features between the two modes . |
| 3 | He is right that there are no outstanding issues with the Home Office . |
| 4 | The hon. Gentleman is right that there was a change in 1979 , but for different reasons from those he advanced . |
| 5 | He insisted that no decisions about future spending had been taken , but he believed that it was right ‘ that there should be a widespread review and it is right that there should be a big debate . ’ |
| 6 | It is merely that there is less and less justification for her position . |
| 7 | Unfortunately the single-copy fallacy , the idea that it is enough that there should be one copy of any book in existence , does have support even within the British Library itself . |
| 8 | It is enough that there should have been growing pockets of households within the income range £50 to £200 a year , sufficient to have amounted to around 15 per cent of the population in 1750 and 20 to 25 per cent by 1780 . |
| 9 | The point is only that there are long-term trends and patterns in crime , violence , and disorder . |
| 10 | The implication is perhaps that there were some parts in which it had ; that will be considered below , after we have looked at the pattern of provincial money wages . |
| 11 | It is just that there are so many of them concerned with skin colour , each one having such a small effect , that they seem to blend . |
| 12 | It is just that there have been ‘ colossal changes in the transfer mechanisms ’ , he says , and widespread use of blood products , and increased homosexual promiscuity are but two of them . |
| 13 | I have a sensation of heat as I approach the fire ; but when I approach the same fire too closely , I have a sensation of pain ; so there is nothing to convince me that something in the fire resembles heat , any more than the pain ; it is just that there must be something in it ( whatever this may turn out to be ) that produces the sensations of heat or pain . |
| 14 | ‘ The truth is probably that there was an unholy alliance , ’ says Professor Wilkinson . |
| 15 | But the daft thing is really that there is a , an access into the little play area from there . |
| 16 | Their problem is often that there is nothing to explore except a bare concrete cell , and this frustrates them intensely . |
| 17 | It is not that they are not capable of competing ; it is simply that there have been no great black performers in these areas in history ( due to lack of opportunities and facilities ) and no tradition exists . |
| 18 | The reason is simply that there are so many XT and 286 machines that are in perfectly good working order and only suffer from the fact that they are not 386s ! |
| 19 | With the increasing impact of information technology the problem today is sometimes that there seems to be too much information rather than too little . |