Example sentences of "is [that] it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | One view of the art market is that it is like a staircase with several landings . |
| 2 | Although it is obviously accurate to call an incipient spin a stall with a wing-drop , I think that this is trying to avoid the issue , which is that it is really the beginning of a spin and at least a potential spin . |
| 3 | The final point , which is related to the previous point , is that it is a mystery to some people why , despite the fact they do well in the squad , they still do n't get selected . |
| 4 | The problem with any general behaviouristic account of knowledge is that it is impossible to make sense of any behavioural description without being able to make sense independently of statements about how the world is . |
| 5 | The problem is that it is highly improbable that a group of patients with brain injury constitute a natural kind , even when they display similar symptoms on some test or other . |
| 6 | Their argument is that it is good for the tournament , a s well as the players concerned , if as many as possible of the higher ranked competitors survive the early rounds . |
| 7 | One final point to remember is that it is very easy to overtrain the arms . |
| 8 | All they are giving away about the composition is that it is a water based polymer . |
| 9 | Perhaps a more important advantage of Solvent Free Varnish is that it is touch dry in 20 minutes , and ready for a further coat in two hours . |
| 10 | His belief is that it is preferable if the RF tuner and RDS processing stages of the receiver are continuously active whenever the vehicle ignition is switched on . |
| 11 | A further consideration about feminist criticism , is that it is more practical than theoretical , in a familiar English way , and that unlike other schools in the rainbow coalition , it is actively concerned in producing readings of particular texts . |
| 12 | The reason for concentrating on poetry is that it is the most visibly ‘ literary ’ , formal , and conventional of the major genres , and would provide the best scope for study within an aesthetic frame of reference . |
| 13 | ‘ What people never take into account about the M25 is that it is also designed as a defence barrier against an invading force . |
| 14 | THE commonly-cited reason for opposing a charge for driving on particular urban roads is that it is a further restriction on those who have sufficient constraints already , what with parking meters , wheel-clamping and towing-away . |
| 15 | What I do know is that it is disgraceful and defamatory to label as stooges the people from the Borough Community Relations Council who gave up a day 's work to act as observers , and who have made it clear that they would have reported whatever they had seen , good or bad for police . |
| 16 | ‘ But the irony of a mould-breaking programme like Python is that it is a dead-end , a spoiler for the rest of us . |
| 17 | In fact , thanks largely to Sir Robin Day — ‘ the Grand Inquisitor ’ , as he calls himself in the title of his new book — the impression that the average viewer probably has of politics on television is that it is predominantly adversarial . |
| 18 | Basically our belief is that it is not possible to make a profit . |
| 19 | To speculate about possible good communists in the GDR is also to ignore the central fact about the country , which is that it is not one . |
| 20 | The first reason for the meeting is that it is 21 years ago since the last title was won . |
| 21 | The only problem with the Shakespeare text is that it is open to modern political misinterpretation . |
| 22 | The true significance of the People 's Plan is that it is a model of democratic participation , challenging the authoritarianism of the developer 's proposal . |
| 23 | The reality is that it is extraordinarily difficult to get any change in these kinds of laws — as the last 30 years of procedural mugging by both sides shows in relation to abortion , and the five-year gestation period of this Bill shows with regard to experimenting . |
| 24 | The answer is that it is a small world , at least in terms of golf in October . |
| 25 | A few are ‘ trying out ’ policing by joining the reserves first , although the common view amongst the reserve police is that it is harder for them to transfer to the regulars than it is for someone without experience to sign up straight away because of the greater number of reasons the police authorities are thereby given for turning them down . |
| 26 | One of the nicest things about walking around coastline peninsulas is that it is often easy to stick to the coastline without doubling back on yourself at the end . |
| 27 | The other side of the coin is that it is very satisfying and rewarding because it stretches me in every possible way . |
| 28 | This is a language , a world view , a form of life perhaps , wherein one of the principal reasons for according praise to a type of art is that it is able to give voice to a politics ; Bolshevism in the main case , though as Callinicos acknowledges , one of the salient points about Modernism was its ‘ ambiguity , its capacity to express a variety of different political positions ’ ; that is , when it was not engaged on its more usual ‘ flight from politics ’ ( p. 161 ) . |
| 29 | What 's so unusual about the Calibra is that it is n't merely a two-plus-two , it 's a full four-seater . |
| 30 | The simplest answer to the question about what causes the sleep/wake rhythm to arise is that it is a reflection of the rhythmic world in which the newborn child has been placed and to which it begins to respond . |