Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [adv] [adj] that [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is rather regrettable that candidates have to use their energy on this sort of thing , instead of working to get elected . ’ |
| 2 | It is however apparent that differences in comprehensive income measured in this way do not necessarily correspond to differences in ability to pay , defined in terms of opportunity sets . |
| 3 | But it is equally necessary that humans engage in a ceaseless and violent struggle with beings which attack from outside the bounds of society . |
| 4 | Miron 's tentative conclusion is that older staff may become less concerned about teaching as they develop other priorities ; but it is equally possible that students are responding more similarly , and more favourably , to lecturers who are more like themselves . |
| 5 | It is equally true that firms and households are less likely to operate efficiently in a period of inflation , for a number of reasons . |
| 6 | It is equally important that appointments to the national boards include a registered nurse and a practising health visitor and midwife . |
| 7 | In these days of broadening the base of those who are authorised to undertake conveyancing , it is fundamentally important that solicitors should follow the Law Society 's guide on how to deal with unadmitted persons . |
| 8 | In the first place , we can not say that the coins recovered from a site , whether by excavation or otherwise , represent a cross-section of coins in use on that site , even though it is generally true that coins are dropped in proportion to the amount of times they are handled or passed from hand to hand . |
| 9 | Efforts made by communist states to reduce inequalities vary , but it is generally true that bureaucrats are better off than those they rule . |
| 10 | However , while it is doubtless true that men pay an emotional price for the power they have , this should not blind us to the power and privileges from which they do benefit . |
| 11 | The latter two sources are of uncertain reliability , while the Encomiast 's suppression of Emma 's previous marriage to Æthelred makes one suspicious of his entire treatment of the affair , but it is inherently likely that negotiations did take place , for Cnut was shrewd enough to appreciate that gaining Emma 's assistance against her sons without Richard 's goodwill would have been to leave the job half done . |
| 12 | It is particularly concerned that assessments should not falsely accuse parents and families on the basis of unproven diagnostic and predictive techniques . |
| 13 | But , as with Neratius , it is again surprising that words like cupio or opto , which are both entirely in the traditional mould of requesting the trustee to do something , should have to be mentioned at all . |
| 14 | In the process of delivering National Curriculum history it is most important that pupils are introduced to a wide and varied range of historical resources , and it may be useful to offer some general advice on the resourcing of such units . |
| 15 | It is most important that arts teachers see themselves first and foremost as teachers and only after carrying out their duties in this respect to see themselves as artists . |
| 16 | It is little wonder that surgeons themselves develop medical conditions : bad backs are common . |
| 17 | It is surely reasonable that taxes should be designed to be easy and cheap to collect , difficult to avoid and should not be a discouragement to the enterprise and effort of those paying them . |
| 18 | There has also been deliberate wooing of parents who had already made their selection , although it is surely obvious that changes in mid-stream can only be damaging , in terms of stability , education and coach/player relationship . |
| 19 | It is scarcely surprising that popes did not like calling Councils . |
| 20 | As in a modern context it is immediately clear that students find it hard to combine study with a full-time job ; so , addressing a would-be contemplative , the Cloud-author explains his view that it is impossible for man to pursue the discipline of meditation and study unless he first ceases external activity , and impossible to come to mystical knowledge of God if the mind is engaged in discursive thought . |
| 21 | Towards the end of the 1980s , it is increasingly apparent that cities are likely to find themselves very much in the firing line , as a series of radical measures are implemented concerning education , social security and local taxation . |
| 22 | It is clearly unacceptable that workers ' pensions are open to such abuse by the employers . |
| 23 | If the reason girls achieve less than boys is because of remediable educational or social conditions which disadvantage them , then it is clearly unjust that girls should get a less fair deal than boys . |
| 24 | In addition to being consistent over time , it is clearly desirable that indicators used within a single year be consistent . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , it is clearly important that pupils should have opportunities both to read silently and to listen to well-written books read aloud throughout their school years . |
| 26 | It is also right that consumers should pay the full price of the advantages they will enjoy as a result of genetic engineering . |
| 27 | This reasoning seems plausible , though it is also possible that policies which , as it turned out , led to non-profitable growth , might at least is some cases be accounted for simply as failed experiments in increasing profitability . |
| 28 | It is also possible that magistrates gave defendants the benefit of the doubt when in the preliminary inquiry both sides produced witnesses who appeared unreliable . |
| 29 | It is also possible that guls possessed some mystical or totemistic significance , but although symbols aimed at warding off the " evil eye " are still found in some tribal weaving , any deeper meaning attributed to them can now be little more than conjecture . |
| 30 | It is also possible that patients with inflammatory bowel disease and aberrant expression of blood group antigens in colonic and biliary epithelium are at risk of developing extraintestinal manifestations such as PSC . |