Example sentences of "[subord] it is [vb pp] that [noun] " in BNC.

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31 Affectivity is only incomprehensible if it is expected that emotions can be translated into thoughts with a proposition contained within them .
32 Additionally , if it is found that feelings of risk in the simulator are similar to those experienced when actually driving , and there is reasonable consistency between subjects in assessments , it is possible to infer the feelings of risk a subject is likely to experience when confronted with a particular situation without actually asking the subject to give ratings at the time .
33 If it is known that behaviour depends smoothly , and the second derivative of the dependence is never zero and its first derivative is bounded away from zero , then the Newton-Raphson method is better .
34 Very often , if it is known that additions will be made precisely evenly throughout the file , it will also be known when they will be made .
35 If it is proposed that equipment is installed on OUP premises to update and manipulate the OED text please answer 7.2.7–7.2.8 .
36 If it is proved that unit holders who have traded units recently have suffered as a result of pricing errors , some form of compensation will be made available .
37 The public will not be outraged if it is told that precedents will be confined to their facts .
38 I simply wish to point out that if it is supposed that Karen Parsons and I embarked that afternoon with the intention of drowning her husband , why did we wait till we had reached a point where our criminal acts were overlooked by at least fifteen witnesses ?
39 If it is claimed that reasons are needed for this verdict , which might be doubted , one has to do with the fact that we do not take all the causes of behaviour to be other behaviour .
40 The alternative , if it is contemplated that fees will be incurred during the life of the trust , is to take a separate deed of covenant from the husband and the wife , or either of them , whereby they or one of them agree to discharge the fees concerned .
41 Unless it is submitted that prisoners have , on entering prison , surrendered all rights over their own bodies , in which case medical experimentation on them would be equally lawful , the case can not stand as authority for the proposition that there exists a duty , even as regards prisoners , far less at large , to prevent someone from refusing food and , a fortiori , medical treatment .
42 There is also a belief that as far as possible people should be made to pay for services provided by the state , partly to reduce public expenditure and taxation , and partly because it is believed that charges will increase public pressure for services to be provided efficiently .
43 It is still maintained by the sophisticated falsificationist that theories can be falsified and rejected while it is denied that theories can ever be established as true or probably true .
44 This trend may in fact be more marked , since it is acknowledged that victims may be considerably reluctant to report , and police to record , offences of violence committed in the home .
45 Secondly , a wage-change variable is included in addition to a price variable since it is hypothesised that workers may seek to unionise not only to defend existing standards of living but also to attempt to improve upon them .
46 To say this is , it should be noted , is to make a theological point : since it is held that God is the creator , so that what is natural , and what is also found to be the case , must accord with what is God 's intention .
47 They also reduce land loss , since it is estimated that channels with 50 per cent tree and shrub cover on both banks require only approximately half the width for a given volume of bankfull flood-water speeding through the channel , compared to treeless brooks which erode out into the adjacent fields .
48 It has often been said that the family kept the process secret , but this seems unlikely , since it is known that pearl ash was used to secure the transparency .
49 It seems to me quite arbitrary to disallow man-made machines this ability , when it is accepted that men are machines , and that such an unknown machine as a Martian may also perceive meanings .
50 When it is recognised that England may have lost about one-third of her population in these critical years , the lull in military activity becomes understandable .
51 There can be no good reason to object to this when it is recognised that efficiency incorporates personal factors such as safety , health and quality of working life as well as system factors such as productivity and quality of work .
52 The poignancy of this catastrophe is the greater when it is realised that Andrew Carnegie , the greatest benefactor the British public library system has ever known , was himself a cotton man who started life as a boy in a cotton mill .
53 This was clearly important when it is recalled that Matadial , when cross-examined about the discrepancy between the January statement and her evidence , gave the explanation that the earlier version was due to a mistake by the police .
54 It concluded ‘ that there would be little trouble in finding someone to take up the unassigned bonds when it is known that bonds in Sunningdale and other golf links have increased nearly 50% since their issue ’ .
55 This takes on an added significance when it is remembered that geriatrics and the terminally ill are regarded as the failures of the health service and are often consigned to the young and inexperienced who , as one doctor recently put it , ‘ do strive very officiously to keep people alive because they are interested scientifically and they want to use every method they can as part of their training ’ .
56 This is particularly so when it is remembered that certificates are only granted in those cases where there are reasonable grounds for taking action .
57 Not a massive workload , even when it is remembered that consultation time and documentation time were not included in the data .
58 This is particularly remarkable when it is considered that Roddick has made no acquisitions and has no major plans for diversification .
59 Collecting bias seems to be greater for molars than for incisors , not surprising when it is considered that incisors are easier to locate in the pellets than are molars , and so an excess of incisors may be combined with a deficit of molars where there is collecting bias .
60 However , when it is thought that attitudinism renders ethics irrational , the usual point is that ethical conclusions can not be inferred in any rational manner from premisses which are purely factual .
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