Example sentences of "it be [adv] [adj] that [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's equally important that goods do n't get damaged on their way to the shop floor , or when they arrive there . |
| 2 | It 's perhaps interesting that women newsreaders have n't been presented as ideal mothers instead — especially as male newsreaders are sort of father figures , greying at the temples , reliable and impartial in their authority . |
| 3 | In the case of Dr Jordan , they have the figures in front of them and it 's quite understandable that questions should be asked about his unusually high night-time payments . |
| 4 | Erm , but er it 's , it 's quite wrong that pensioners and er , the poorest should have to take cuts again erm when there 's people on such high salaries . |
| 5 | and it 's absolutely fascinating that women were n't allowed to join the erm Architects ' Institute , the Dental Association , and so on , and there was a sort of big surge forward at the end of the last century , and I think there 's been a big surge forward in the last twenty years or so really . |
| 6 | Remember , it 's more likely that youngsters may turn to drugs if they come from a home where the adults appear to be dependent on legal drugs like tobacco or alcohol . |
| 7 | It 's certainly true that drugs are assumed to have a special , morbid logic of their own , rather than to be aspecific case of general patterns of human behaviour . |
| 8 | It 's glaringly obvious that schools are not commercial organisations and children , unlike bars of chocolate , are not commodities . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's very possible that garages do take people for a ride , ’ acknowledged a spokesman for Kangol , one of the major baby-seat manufacturers . |
| 10 | For Mill it 's very important that citizens are educated for their role and although participation on a na national level has to be something that can be restricted only to the few , Mill nevertheless wants active participation of the citizens in other aspects . |
| 11 | And while it 's very reassuring that schools have n't changed too much — I do n't think we want everything to change overnight — I think you could say that schools are open to the same criticism as of British industry at the moment , that they are institutions which perhaps are changing too slowly for the demands of the modern world . |
| 12 | ‘ It is rather regrettable that candidates have to use their energy on this sort of thing , instead of working to get elected . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But it is equally necessary that humans engage in a ceaseless and violent struggle with beings which attack from outside the bounds of society . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It is equally true that firms and households are less likely to operate efficiently in a period of inflation , for a number of reasons . |
| 17 | It is equally important that appointments to the national boards include a registered nurse and a practising health visitor and midwife . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Efforts made by communist states to reduce inequalities vary , but it is generally true that bureaucrats are better off than those they rule . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It is particularly concerned that assessments should not falsely accuse parents and families on the basis of unproven diagnostic and predictive techniques . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It is little wonder that surgeons themselves develop medical conditions : bad backs are common . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It is scarcely surprising that popes did not like calling Councils . |