Example sentences of "is that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason is that hardened Staffordshire smokers ( and they come no harder ) have taken to the Nicotine patch and are driving their colleagues mad with frozen smiles and cries of : ‘ I 'm all right — I 've gone 73-and-a-quarter hours without one ’ . |
| 2 | In short , the law is unclear , though perhaps the better view is that subjective knowledge is required . |
| 3 | And the second thing is that repossessed houses very very quickly begin to look dirty and battered . |
| 4 | The explicit or implicit argument is that elderly people have experienced a constriction of economic liberty in modern Britain because of the sometimes deliberate and sometimes unconscious course of development of social welfare and employment policies . |
| 5 | The significance of this result is that broad bean pollen is completely devoid of carotenoids , and some of these chemicals are the physiological precursors of vitamin A. |
| 6 | If it be objected that no beginning writer shops around in this way among the idioms handed down to him from the past , the evidence is that certain beginning writers do shop around in just this way ; Ezra Pound was one of them , and he is by no means so exceptional as is supposed . |
| 7 | Moreover , with the microfiche databases available on subscription and therefore immediately accessible to subscribers , the effect is that certain types of straightforward database searches are less necessary on individual demand . |
| 8 | Word from Ford is that better seats are on their way this year . |
| 9 | The clear implication is that greater weight is being given to macro-planning , in the hope that greater effectiveness here will indirectly benefit individual projects . |
| 10 | Speed humps can do this , whereas the evidence is that present methods do not . |
| 11 | The upshot is that small areas of the boundary layer are turbulent . |
| 12 | Among the claims is that five men accused in a rent boys scandal walked free after fears that gay judges would be named in court . |
| 13 | What I should perhaps point out here is that seventy percent of people who have fallen from the top of the falls have died in the process . |
| 14 | And the good news is that 10 % from every sale will go to help the World Wide Life Fund For Nature in its quest for earth 's survival . |
| 15 | The result is that ordinary motorists can now get the cars of their dreams for a song , and they could even end up being a good little earner . |
| 16 | The result is that ordinary motorists can now pick them up at the more respectable auctions for less than the price of an everyday family car . |
| 17 | The pessimistic conclusion is that electoral democracy can only survive by not tackling major social injustices and alienating powerful interest groups in society — in which case the poor will , in the long run , not consider democracy worth supporting . |
| 18 | Whatever the cause , the immediate consequence is that personal sector lending to the public sector has fallen . |
| 19 | A second point to be noted in this , and in a large number of other conversational fragments , is that personal topics are frequently introduced through first person reference in one form or another . |
| 20 | The worrying fact is that serious over-use is drying up some of our rivers and natural underground water levels . |
| 21 | My view is that international players must understand that their behaviour for clubs is just as important as when they play for England . ’ |
| 22 | Smith 's only consolation is that former England defender Russell Osman should be back to steady his defence against Notts County at Ashton Gate on Saturday when City try to extend an unbeaten run of five home League games . |
| 23 | Another reason to be grateful for all the publicity and discussion about child abuse is that former victims are seeking treatment at a far earlier age than was previously the case and therefore are able to go on and live a normal life once that treatment is complete . |
| 24 | A not-surprising result is that low market share coupled with high capital intensity spells disaster . |
| 25 | The question is how this expansion can be paid for , given that the new Secretary of State has said quite candidly that his present view is that higher education can not expect a higher share of public spending than it currently receives . |
| 26 | ‘ The really worrying thing is that higher education is being regarded as a commodity for sale rather than something that we should invest in . |
| 27 | Ultimately , there might have been differences between them in what enlargement meant , but the point is that higher education stood for an overriding and widening development of the mind . |
| 28 | Another way of making the point is that higher education traditionally formed a culture of the written word , albeit a kind of literacy which embodied a restricted code , understood by the few . |
| 29 | One of the most popular myths in weight training is that higher reps produce bigger abdominals . |
| 30 | However , it adds , an even greater risk is that higher mortgage rates will add to wage pressures . |