Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] that it [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Another advantage is that the open nature of the meeting means that it is less easy to split workers and carers . |
| 32 | The perceived decrease in the public 's generosity means that it is even more important for businesses , and I mean all business , not just the larger ones that have traditionally provided the pool of resource , to realise that their businesses would only succeed within a healthy society , and a healthy society means the support of business men and business women . |
| 33 | The Board recognises that it is both impracticable and inappropriate to remove , in the foreseeable future , some of the remaining alternative accounting treatments permitted . |
| 34 | Improvements in distribution and packaging mean that it is now available all over the country , in supermarkets , delicatessens and specialist cheese shops . |
| 35 | SeaWatch director Sven Hansen says that recent international agreements to reduce pollution mean that it is particularly important to set up a system capable of ensuring standards are being met . |
| 36 | There is a vast fund of evidence to indicate that it is just not the case that the experience that observers undergo when viewing an object is determined solely by the information , in the form of light rays , entering the observer 's eyes , nor is it determined solely by the images on the retinas of an observer . |
| 37 | Will my hon. Friend confirm that it is often precisely those authorities that complain most about not being able to use capital receipts which have used the most in the past few years ? |
| 38 | The name emphasizes that it is never adequate to describe the fluctuations in a turbulent flow as totally random . |
| 39 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that it is right that he should restate the Government 's commitment to their policy in Northern Ireland , based on the rule of law ? |
| 40 | To the north lies Mecklenburg-Vorpommern — with a name like that it 's hardly surprising few in the UK have ever heard of this huge stage on the Baltic coast . |
| 41 | It is a sign of the success of this new Nimbus recording that it is far from effaced in such company , and will no doubt win this barnstorming masterwork of late-Romanticism many new friends . |
| 42 | They all require us to make sense of the realist thought that it is always possible that , unknown to us , the world differs radically from the way it appears to us , and argue from this that we can not know that the world really is the way it appears to us . |
| 43 | Metaphor and symbolism are intrinsic to both , and it seems only reasonable to attempt to treat dreaming as normal and creative unless good evidence emerges that it is indeed pathological . |
| 44 | Although in general the evidence suggests that it is usually the man 's retirement that provokes most friction , this may change as more of today 's working wives turn sixty and find themselves facing the same need to make difficult adjustments . |
| 45 | Try using a smaller amount , massaging it between your fingers before applying hair to ensure that it 's evenly distributed . |
| 46 | So much tree clearance work was done during the first ten years of the existence of Catchment Boards that it is now difficult to get a complete picture of the derelict state of the rivers before the passing of the Land Drainage Act in 1930 . |
| 47 | Any other small mammal of this size would quickly be squashed to death , but when he steps off it after several minutes , the hero shrew reveals that it is still very much alive by trying to escape . |
| 48 | However , to maintain this amended behaviour pattern , it may be necessary to repeat this training once or twice a week to ensure that it is permanently reinforced . |
| 49 | Proponents of left-to-right strategy argue that it is much simpler , requiring far less bookkeeping , and thus leads to greater efficiency . |
| 50 | But then this theory confesses that it is completely at a loss as to how the image can possibly be received by the brain . |
| 51 | His comment suggests that it is almost as if , when someone woke up in the morning , they were suddenly possessed of something mysterious in becoming conscious , like a metaphysical virus . |
| 52 | Game theory demonstrates that it is usually most adaptive to be variable or unpredictable , so long as evolution or personal experience takes care to set the odds appropriately . |
| 53 | Responding to our piece on Power Now , its Pentium initiative , in last week 's issue , The Santa Cruz Operation says that it is less important to re-compile the operating system than the applications software , which tends to be more numerically intensive . |
| 54 | One contributor replied that it is very difficult to create new jobs at all and especially difficult to attract jobs to Northern Ireland . |
| 55 | From the outside it looks the same as the broader opportunity garden , but once through the gates the entrant sees that it is only a narrow strip . |
| 56 | Everything that Labour says about public spending shows that it is completely indifferent to inflation , which would have a bad effect on unemployment . |
| 57 | The Government sees that it is more accountable for the individual tenants to pay their Council Tax directly to the local authority rather than to the landlord and unfortunately no agency arrangements can be put in place that would allow this . |
| 58 | This information can be used in equation ( 3 ) to calculate the cost of equity finance : Assuming a corporation tax rate of 40 per cent , we now have all the information to use equation ( 1 ) to calculate the firm 's cost of capital : This is the appropriate cost of capital for this firm providing that it is only considering further investments that have the same risk characteristics as those previously evaluated , and that its gearing ( that is , the ratio of debt to equity ) is not expected to change in the foreseeable future . |
| 59 | Does not the Secretary of State understand that it is precisely because the TGWU is so committed to effective training and the future expansion of British industry that it is not prepared to give credence to the Government 's sham arrangements ? |
| 60 | In view of the constructive contribution which the Palestinian delegation , among others , made to the Madrid peace talks , does the Foreign Secretary believe that it is any longer sensible for Ministers to continue to refuse even to talk to the PLO ? |