Example sentences of "is [adv] that [art] " 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 | It is rather that the whole point of a national curriculum will be lost if it can not be assumed that children at 11 will be ready for whatever is the generally agreed content of the first year at secondary school . |
| 3 | It is rather that the idea and ideal is always likely to function as a corrective to complacency rather than as a prop to It . |
| 4 | The point is rather that the so-called independent check is a mere repetition of the procedure which it is supposed to be checking . |
| 5 | The first type of usage , that where the infinitive is non-realized ( He tried to get free ) , would appear to arise when the movement denoted by to is not carried to its end-point , i.e. when only the beginning of the movement signified by to is actualized : The second type , where the sense is rather that the infinitive 's event is actually realized ( He managed to get free ) , seems to arise where the speaker has actualized the whole of the movement signified by to , thus reaching the point where the realization of the infinitive event takes place . |
| 6 | The rationale for UDCs is presumably that the scale of urban decline necessitates the creation of independent , centrally-appointed development agencies that are free from the apparent constraints of local government . |
| 7 | The explanation for this effect is presumably that the very early events in the cascade of memory formation involve electrical activity within the neurons and that the immediate shock disrupts this process ; by the time the delayed shock is given , however , the cascade is already past this phase , and is no longer vulnerable . |
| 8 | It is right that every household should know its rights under the NHS . |
| 9 | However , if it is right that a change is as good as a rest , you should now feel rested and ready to cope with anything . |
| 10 | Forster is right that the correlation between the variables is far from perfect ; the data points are spread quite widely to either side of the line . |
| 11 | He is right that the Lords has a great deal of collective wisdom , and probably more talented minds than the House of Commons during this administration . |
| 12 | Perhaps it is right that the official institutions of a community should express moral judgements on behalf of its law-abiding members — but why should it have to take form of punishment ? |
| 13 | During the middle years of their married life , and before Prince Charles becomes King , it is right that the paths and interests of the Prince and Princess of Wales should diverge somewhat . |
| 14 | My hon. Friend is right that the Labour party would be prepared to overrule parental ballots and to take grant-maintained schools back into the throes of LEA control , which is exactly what parents have voted to escape . |
| 15 | If there are any sources available to the Government that disprove that figure , it is right that the Minister should put those sources to the House . |
| 16 | Surely it is right that the House should be able to question the shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer about his apparent differences of opinion with his hon. Friend the Member for Derby , South ( Mrs. Beckett ) . |
| 17 | This is not to say that the researcher simply becomes the handmaid of the practitioner ; it is merely that the researcher who is not prepared to learn from the practitioner is arrogant and lacking in insight . |
| 18 | It is merely that the choice is made to run it as a self-contained entity and the appropriate structure thus created for it . |
| 19 | For example , the Kenyan scholar Ali Mazrui has written that the reason why the Swahili word for a newspaper is gazeti is merely that the first papers that East Africans came into contact with were government gazettes . |
| 20 | It is also worth noting that dealing need not actually take place ; the minimum requirement is merely that the insider had reasonable cause to believe that dealing in the relevant shares would take place . |
| 21 | The difference between a more conventional company and an incorporated contract computer programmer/analyst is merely that the former can and does respond simultaneously to a multiplicity of orders which partly overlap and partly succeed one another . |
| 22 | The implication of these observations for our discussion is that whereas with going to a movement towards the realization of the accompanying infinitive 's event is represented as being under way , with will there is no idea of a movement towards this event ( i.e. of something existing before it in time ) : the impression is merely that the potentiality for the infinitive 's event already exists , and will be actualized if certain conditions are met . |
| 23 | It is enough that a project satisfy the purpose of ‘ the advancement of knowledge in biological or behavioural sciences , ( section 5.3(d) ) , although the applicant must then justify the necessity of using animals at all ( 5.5 ) , and in specific terms if the use of larger mammals is proposed ( 5.6 ) . |
| 24 | Finally , the twenty-four hours of detention do not have to have produced one jot of evidence to justify their continuation ; it is enough that the police want to obtain such evidence by further questioning . |
| 25 | Even in a healthy society it is enough that the officials accept the secondary rules of recognition , adjudication and change and that the citizens acquiesce . |
| 26 | Whereas the earlier section requires that the language or conduct be used ‘ towards another person , ’ the section currently under consideration does not do so ; it is enough that the language be broadcast generally . |
| 27 | We assume that it is enough that the new way will prove better than the old way once it has been tried for some time . |
| 28 | But the empirical evidence for this claim is only that the facts can be read consistently with it . |
| 29 | ‘ No , ’ said Aline , suddenly serious , ‘ it is only that the step from perfectly ordinary things into the miraculous seems to me so small , almost accidental , that I wonder why it astonishes you at all , or why you trouble to reason about it . |
| 30 | Indeed , if the effect of the exchange 's rules is only that the member is liable to other members ( or the clearing house ) as a principal , he may actually be dealing as an agent in any event , and his client may be able to read through the contract to the market . |