Example sentences of "it is [adj] [verb] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is frustrating to know that they can still , if they wish , punch the button marked ‘ Excess ’ . |
| 2 | Given the greater creative role of the judges in the appellate courts , it is appropriate to question whether they are fitted for the task of supervision . |
| 3 | If the frail or housebound are to eat properly , it is essential to see that they have help with their shopping , for carrying or pushing heavy baskets soon becomes an impossibility and very few shops now deliver goods . |
| 4 | Where it is determined that it is appropriate to report shares issued by subsidiaries in consolidated financial statements within minority interests rather than as a liability , it is necessary to determine whether they represent an equity or a non-equity interest . |
| 5 | The double windows , divided by twin columns , are the most pleasing thing in the room , with simply sculpted capitals , of a demon , the head of Christ , animals , birds , stars and flowers ; these , like the door between them , once gave on to the cloister , and it is nice to know that they will do so again , once that vital adjunct has been rebuilt . |
| 6 | Surely it is reasonable to suppose that they have the same feeling as I have when they do so . ’ |
| 7 | In whichever way the results of an assessment are communicated , it is reasonable to assume that they may have important implications for the way in which the child is dealt with in the future . |
| 8 | Although there is no precise information about the provenance of all of these finds , it is reasonable to assume that they came from the original excavation of the ‘ villa ’ or from adjacent sites . |
| 9 | However , it is reasonable to assume that they will , initially at least , be relatively inexpensive , and , due to the increasing scarcity of genuine nomadic and tribal weaving , may well become more collectable in the future . |
| 10 | When a Government have a serious problem that has lasted 22 years , cost billions of pounds in security and military provisions and caused immeasurable suffering to some people , it is reasonable to assume that they have a long-term policy for creating lasting peace and ending the waste . |
| 11 | There are no studies of the psychological state of IBS patients seen in primary care , but it is reasonable to assume that they represent an intermediate population . |
| 12 | The time is during the later 1970s ( so it is reasonable to expect that they will speak modern English , with Scottish accents ) . |
| 13 | Neither owned any property , but from the fact that Elizabeth 's assessment was reduced to £30 for the second instalment of the subsidy in 1525 , while Thomas and Malyn were now taxed on 20 marks apiece , it is logical to deduce that they were her children , lately come of age . |
| 14 | If societies ‘ need ’ crime then it is logical to assume that they will ensure that there will be crime . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Faced with such apparently perverse ways of thinking it is easy to conclude that they can not possibly reason as we reason . |
| 18 | Particularly in their polemical passages they have a freshness and directness , such assurance that the world is now their oyster , that it is easy to forget that they did not go uncriticized . |
| 19 | It is easy to think that they are made by men . |
| 20 | ‘ Mr Taylor has completed ignored the fact that Catholics have been under the jackboot of the IRA and loyalists for over 20 years and it is ridiculous to say that they have not been living in fear . ’ |
| 21 | It is possible to see that they had never been lived in , could never be lived in , though front door and portico are present and their ranks of windows , the spaces where the glass should be painted a dull blue . |
| 22 | Thus when a man 's vassals rebelled against him , it is possible to say that they were exerting , in due form , the ancient right of resistance , of diffidatio , or , with William of Malmesbury , that they had proved swift to break faith . |
| 23 | So , although it is not true to say that all tortoiseshell cats are females , it is true to say that they are all feminine — even the rare males . |
| 24 | But it is important to remember that they are two to three kilometres beneath the surface of the sea , and in some cases thousands of kilometres from the shore . |
| 25 | It is important to remember that they were intended to hatch where you collected them as caterpillars . |
| 26 | Interesting though it is to be aware of the way in which these various theological traditions bear fruit in the mystics ' accounts of their experience , it is important to remember that they can not fully account for this experience . |
| 27 | However , it is important to realise that they are used only if the main table numbers do not adequately classify the document . |
| 28 | Yet it is important to realize that they were neither intelligible nor clear to those in whose minds they actually occurred . |
| 29 | It is important to understand that they are the people living in the area — the people who have suffered so much since 1947 . |
| 30 | He argued that scientists have shown that even in some metals there is a vestige of the spark of life , and there are some metals of which it is difficult to say whether they are alive or not . |