Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [adj] [that] it [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it is to be baled or carted it is most important that it is well and evenly dried . |
| 2 | Indeed , the research evidence is so strong that it is now reflected in the high incidence of work teams , ‘ away days ’ for functional groups and courses in team-building . |
| 3 | Pliny 's account naturally did n't go into the details of the mechanics of the eruption , but his account is so illuminating that it is quite clear what happened , and similar eruptions , blasting large volumes of pumiceous ash into the air are still called Plinian eruptions . |
| 4 | There is an argument that treason is a more serious offence , since it strikes at the very foundations of the State and its social organizations , but treason is so rare that it is surely permissible to treat homicide as the most serious form of crime . |
| 5 | This algorithm is so simple that it is often not taken seriously . |
| 6 | The behaviour of physical , nonbiological objects is so simple that it is feasible to use existing mathematical language to describe it , which is why physics books are full of mathematics . |
| 7 | But the prohibition in the Act is so complete that it is commonly ignored . |
| 8 | At Procedure Roll a defender may , very occasionally , succeed in persuading a Court that the pursuer 's case is so hopeless that it is not worth allowing evidence to be heard because even if that evidence was heard , it would not make out a case which would entitle the pursuer to succeed . |
| 9 | The very idea of Kenneth Williams protecting anyone is so ridiculous that it is laughable , but Halliwell did n't see things that way . |
| 10 | However , it appears that most ventures are characterized by investments in a project where the uncertainty is so great that it is not possible to evaluate it by means of ordinary criteria for analysis of projects . |
| 11 | I think that the sort of environmental problem to which the hon. Gentleman referred is so great that it is probably best dealt with by multilateral institutions . |
| 12 | A couple whose cottage garden is so spectacular that it 's visited by two thousand people a year are about to move house . |
| 13 | Its modernity is so impressive that it is important to remember just how much of an older economic world was still interlocked with it . |
| 14 | Although throughout Marx 's and Engels 's work reference to property is so extensive that it is impossible to take them all into account , a general pattern emerges . |
| 15 | I mean , within the context of the publication the quality range is so wide that it 's shocking . |
| 16 | However , these days the choice of styles available is so wide that it is easy to become confused when making a purchase . |
| 17 | The name is so good that it is used twice at opposite ends of the Peak District , and both routes are major middle grade classics . |
| 18 | True , John makes it look easy , but , his tackle control is so good that it is obviously going to be difficult to emulate . |
| 19 | Does it matter that the present is so substantial that it is a powerful inducement to marry ? |
| 20 | As the system is updated , nothing is lost for storage is so cheap that it is always more cost effective to slap a primitive TEI type header on each block of data and transfer it to the next store rather than sort out what is likely to be needed from what is not . |
| 21 | I trust I have provided enough reasons to show that the use of the phrase ‘ pain in animals ’ is so indefinable that it is meaningless to animals and to those who have the well-being of animals at heart . |
| 22 | These it uses to stun its prey and the discharge is so powerful that it is quite sufficient to knock over a horse standing in the shallows . |
| 23 | The availability of this defence causes problems for a plaintiff especially where the defendant has carried out works specified in an abatement notice , without success , or where the odour problem is so complex that it is difficult to ascertain just what are the best practicable means . |
| 24 | But the relationship between the ‘ army of administrators at their desks ’ and the eventual supply of a public service to beneficiaries in society , is so complex that it is difficult to disentangle the contributions which different strands make to an individual 's utility function . |
| 25 | The television network is so complex that it is possible to actually link yourself into your favourite programme and read the script as one of the characters . |
| 26 | ‘ The alleyway is so remote that it is unlikely to have been an opportunist crime , ’ Chief Inspetor Graham said . |
| 27 | Third , the Acropolis of Athens — a feature which , like some other masterpieces of nature or art , is so familiar that it is hard to see it with fresh eyes — was an inevitable centre for the rynoikism or concentration of Attica from a plurality of villages into a mia polis , ‘ one city ’ . |
| 28 | The provision of water is so fundamental that it is a priority for return to public control . |
| 29 | The turning point may come when the US supreme court decides that genetic injustice is so immense that it is within the law to show an employer or the insurance falsified genetic identity . |
| 30 | Walking is the only means of transport that can claim to be universal … yet the pedestrian is the most neglected of travellers … ironically , it is perhaps because walking is so commonplace that it is neglected — pedestrians are so universal as to be almost invisible . |