Example sentences of "is [adv] that they " in BNC.

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1 the great bulk of community care is provided by friends , family and neighbours … it is right that they should be able to play their part in looking after those close to them … service providers should make practical support for carers a high priority .
2 It is right that they should be dealt with in a humane and honourable manner .
3 It is right that they should be given a place of honour in the history of ancient art .
4 Press hostility to this idea was scarcely free of self-interest , but there were bigger issues at stake and it is right that they prevailed .
5 It is merely that they wish to question me , for I had responsibility for the food last night .
6 This is so that they are easy to find on the large boxes .
7 What Hamilton could see was that the talents of Warner Bros had combined to produce a film that was not so much about the Legion as ‘ about the kind of short-sighted , uninformed and well-enough-meaning men who have to be given an understanding of what democracy really is so that they will not go on and on providing tools for such legions ’ .
8 The idea of the tour is so that they can actually er listen to it , but they can turn it off whenever they want and they can use their guide book to see what is in each room and if you look at the guidebook as we go round , you will find that that the things are illustrated , you know the pot .
9 It is just that they show a very late timing of their sleep/wake rhythm with respect to normal time-cues .
10 It is just that they have both been at it too often recently .
11 Those making the decisions have become in a precise sense semi-literate : they can read and write , it is just that they seldom do .
12 ‘ It is n't to say The Wedding Present just treat it like a job , it is just that they have natural courtesy and manners .
13 The first problem here is that the brevity of Scaevola 's response ( even by his standards three words is modest ) leaves it unclear whether he means that the debtors are not freed from any liability , or whether it is just that they are not freed from liabilities contracted after the first will was made .
14 It is just that they have no other choice .
15 Once again these hidden costs have been part of the investment-need right from the beginning — it is just that they have not been looked at closely enough .
16 The case for R&D agreements is partly that they avoid wasteful duplication of research , and allow complementary skills and risks to be pooled , but mainly that they internalize the information spillovers which mean that a single firm is unable to appropriate all the returns to its R&D efforts .
17 It is not just that there survive undeconstructed residues of , say , Romanticism and modernism , or that the constructed forms echo still within the deconstructed ( although they clearly do survive in these ways ) ; it is also that they exert an influence in and as their newly deconstructed state .
18 Thirdly , it is not only that the approaches give different ‘ answers ’ , it is also that they are asking different questions .
19 Directors have sometimes been called trustees , or commercial trustees , sometimes they have been called managing partners ; it does not matter much what you call them as long as you understand what their true position is , which is really that they are commercial men managing a trading concern for the benefit of themselves and all the other shareholders … they are bound to use fair and reasonable diligence in the management of the company 's affairs and to act honestly .
20 Criticism of the retraining schemes is often that they train people for jobs that are not always available to them and they expect too much mobility from people who have further reasons , in their disability , for being reluctant to move from their familiar surroundings .
21 Meaning is not an issue that arises for the Russian Formalists , and it is here that they differ most fundamentally from the American New Critics with whom they otherwise have so many similarities .
22 The answer is surely that they occupied a very special place in the lives of many young middle-class men and especially in the lives of those of them who were budding artists , writers , or intellectuals , who in short were Bohemians .
23 The conclusion is surely that they do not place great store by our profession or its body .
24 So where , as in Morgan , defendants claim that they believed the woman was consenting , because her husband ( who was present ) had told them that she enjoyed a struggle , their case is simply that they lacked the fault element required for the crime .
25 The answer is simply that they enjoyed it .
26 The major problem that young people suffer is simply that they are young .
27 My point here is simply that they do go some way to explaining why patterns of co-residence fluctuate over time .
28 The classical answer is simply that they are there ; they are taken as given .
29 The reason for Bleach 's high media profile recently is simply that they are a pearl in an oyster of normality and the ‘ Eclipse EP ’ blots out every other noise/female vocal merchants being hailed as the new messiahs with immense ease .
30 It is not repentance ; it is simply that they are scared for their skins and wish to save parliamentary seats in the general election .
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