Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [to-vb] that it [is] " in BNC.

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1 So , we set objectives and sub , subsequently planned a budget to ensure that it 's successful .
2 ‘ It does n't take a psychologist to see that it 's you who 's running . ’
3 It takes a moment to realise that it is not some pagan idol , but a head of Christ on the cross , that the spikes represent the crown of thorns and that in the wreckage of the ancient trunk a face has been carved .
4 It took a while to realise that it is a virus .
5 Only two outsiders are permitted to eat from the kitchen — the governor , who has to sample one meal every day to be able to answer any complaints the following day , and the doctor , who tastes the food two or three times a week to ensure that it is balanced and nutritious .
6 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 .
7 The sentences in Task 11 are packed with cohesive devices , but it would be a mistake to suppose that it is this , and nothing else , which creates the unity between them .
8 Although haggling is common in countries such as India , it is a mistake to assume that it is standard practice throughout the world .
9 The onus is on writing as a medium to demonstrate that it is capable of forms of communication which are impossible in the oral media , and that it therefore still has a place in contemporary society .
10 The palazzo looks so much like a 1950s cinema ( or is it a small-town railway station ? ) , with its curves and ornate super-structure , that it comes as a surprise to learn that it is seventeenth-century .
11 For it is characteristic of an agnostic to hold that the existence of a god is a possibility in which there is no good reason either to believe or disbelieve ; and it is characteristic of an atheist to hold that it is at least probable that no god exists .
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