Example sentences of "[noun sg] it be [adj] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | In view of the analogy it is reasonable to suppose that there are Sun-days and nights , and a Sun-afternoon when the solar-flare activity is past its peak but not yet entirely over . |
| 2 | Using this criterion it was possible to show that the damper inertia should be four times the total motor/load inertia ( including the housing inertia ) : and the viscous fluid constant should then be related to the stiffness and damper inertia by : If a well-matched damper is coupled into the system the improvement in the single-step response is achieved with a shorter settling time and lower overshoot , as shown in Fig. 4.13 . |
| 3 | When installing the tray it is necessary to ensure that it is pushed home firmly and squarely to enable the internal pins to line up . |
| 4 | Faced with this combination of forced scrupulosity and ingenious casuistry it is hard to believe that gratuities were an entirely natural and accepted part of the system . |
| 5 | Watching the two of them play together during the session it was easy to see that Tom was active and restless while Sue would sit quietly and watch what was happening . |
| 6 | Yet in the excitement of becoming a parent it is easy to forget that for some the impact can be not so dissimilar from that caused by the discovery of a rival lover . |
| 7 | If Eastern Europe gets massive assistance it is logical to assume that the South will get less . |
| 8 | ( a ) Time of exercise It is usual to provide that the tenant must exercise the option within a few months before the expiry of the lease . |
| 9 | Before embarking on an exercise it is important to establish that the increase in profit and/or sales and market life of the product will together produce a significant benefit after recovering the costs , particularly those of implementation . |
| 10 | Before embarking on an exercise it is important to establish that the increase in profit and/or sales and market life of the product will together produce a significant benefit after recovering the costs , particularly those of implementation . |
| 11 | When the find spots are plotted by king or tribal grouping it is reasonable to infer that the area of circulation of their coins , especially when these are of low value , reflects the territory of a king or tribe . |
| 12 | For those unions organised on a comprehensive , industrial basis it is easy to see that they would be likely to seek bargaining arrangements founded upon the extent of the product market . |
| 13 | The results indicated that , of the sample , some 17,000 volumes ( approximately 1% ) were in need of remedial treatment to the binding , and on this basis it is reasonable to assume that about 50,000 volumes in the entire collection require such treatment . |
| 14 | For the moment it is enough to observe that the Historie/ Geschichte dichotomy could very easily end up looking rather like Lessing 's between the accidental truths of history and the necessary truths of reason , or Fichte 's between the historical and the metaphysical , and thus lead to a position open to the same charge of Gnosticism that Baur had laid at the door of Hegel and Schleiermacher . |
| 15 | But for the moment it is enough to recognize that even unanimity can have its problematic aspects ; and , since unanimity is so rarely achieved on a large scale , we need to consider next the next best thing , the principle with which democracy is very often crudely identified : majority decision-taking or majority rule . |
| 16 | This is a broad , catch-all term which ‘ gatecrashed the literature , thereby avoiding the entrance fee of a definition ’ ( Blackaby , 1979 , p. 2 ) ; the question of definitions is taken up in Chapter 2 but for the moment it is important to note that it is a misleading term for it is often used to describe the relative decline of manufacturing industry rather than industry as a whole which includes primary industries like mining , quarrying and oil and gas production and also includes construction and transport . |
| 17 | For the moment it is sufficient to note that while the managerialist picture of management discretion unbounded by market pressures is unquestionably a serious distortion , the more extreme claims made for the constraining power of these additional markets also give rise to considerable doubts . |
| 18 | Apart from representing a valuable resource in its own right it is important to note that water is paid for twice — in terms of metered supply and the effluent charge . |
| 19 | With the wisdom of hindsight it is easy to say that they should not have tried to raid there in the first place , but success had bred a certain arrogance . |
| 20 | In 1850 neither St Petersburg nor Constantinople nor the western powers realized that war was on the horizon , but with hindsight it is possible to see that the battle-lines were drawn . |
| 21 | But with hindsight it is possible to say that Pope John had already rejected the defensive-minded , judgemental , negative Council projected in 1948–9 . |
| 22 | As far as is known practical tests of centrifugal launchers were never undertaken , and with hindsight it is difficult to imagine that they could have proved to be a practical notion , requiring large structures and imposing high stresses on man and machinery . |
| 23 | ( i.e. From looking at the distribution it is possible to determine that setting a threshold score of 88 ( say ) would remove 30% of the target words from the lattice giving a lattice quality of Q70 ) |
| 24 | Following Oswald 's ascendancy it is difficult to imagine that Penda and Eowa were other than both subject to his overlordship . |
| 25 | Max Caulfield , in his biography of Mrs Whitehouse , sums up the argument in one sentence , saying ‘ as to the purpose of all this frenzy it was easy to explain that the forces of revolution , unable to achieve their objectives at the ballot box or , because of the existence of the nuclear bomb , by full-scale war , were endeavouring to encourage moral decay ’ . |
| 26 | From this general , and somewhat-pessimistic picture it is necessary to assert that in most regions there are quite distinct potentials for growth , but some of these are more easy to exploit than others , even given sufficient investment and other inputs . |
| 27 | However , before we go any further with this rather depressing picture it is important to underline that we are not of course talking about all people over retirement age in some blanket category of dwindling power . |
| 28 | This was stated clearly in the paper that Thonemann and his team published in Nature on 25 January 1958 : ‘ To identify a thermonuclear process it is necessary to show that random collisions in the gas between deuterium ions are responsible for the nuclear reactions . |
| 29 | Looking now at her plump , well-kept hands , two heavy diamond rings worn above her unexpectedly old-fashioned wedding band it was hard to believe that her mother was a work-bent Ukrainian peasant who still wore a black kerchief over her hair and spoke little English . |
| 30 | The difference between the two types is their chemical make-up and whilst I do n't want to go into lengthy explanations about the proportions of carbon and hydrogen atoms that determine the types of fatty acid it is important to realize that fat is n't just a single compound but comes in many forms . |