Example sentences of "[adv] it [be] [adj] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although in all the three books considered there is some evolutionary scheme , when we take them together it is clear that Marx and Engels were very willing to modify the overall picture whenever they obtained new information . |
| 2 | The use of different flowers for each picture means that each design stands on its own but when the pictures are placed together it is obvious that they form a pair . |
| 3 | Where several components had to be soldered together it was vital that the heating for the last piece to be attached did not melt the solder already in place . |
| 4 | Lastly it is probable that Rochester acted as a service centre for the comparatively large number of villas situated in the surrounding countryside . |
| 5 | Suddenly it was all that mattered . |
| 6 | In order to give a good effect a fairly wide range of delay times are required , and apparently it is important that the longer times are not exact multiples of the shortest time . |
| 7 | The new rules were bound to have an adverse effect on the general public 's attitude to the Society and before long it was obvious that the papingo shoot was losing its popularity with ordinary people , even as a spectacle . |
| 8 | Naturally it is disappointing that I am not able to play in some tournaments but there is nothing I can do about that . |
| 9 | But , realising that it was n't very good manners to sit there bemoaning her lot , she made a huge attempt to get over her disappointment , and trotted out lightly , ‘ Oh well , perhaps it 's fortunate that I find Mariánské Láznë quite an enchanting place . ’ |
| 10 | Perhaps it 's surprising that in some cases the learning outcomes and performance criteria were not being assessed or applied — all the National Certificate publications stress that these features are at the heart of the competence-based system and that they can not be varied under any circumstances . |
| 11 | Perhaps it is better that you are with a wardrobe . |
| 12 | Perhaps it is fortunate that the fossil record preserved only a fraction of the truly stupendous total number of species that must have lived since the Cambrian , for otherwise the scientists ' task to catalogue 600 million years of life would be an impossible one . |
| 13 | Perhaps it is fortunate that such success came too late to affect the newly developing teacher education programmes very fundamentally . |
| 14 | Perhaps it is possible that both are correct . |
| 15 | Perhaps it is true that women are kept humble by the nature of their everyday activities . |
| 16 | Perhaps it is true that ‘ life begins at 40 ’ ( or 50 ) for those who recognize the opportunities available to them after parenting ceases , and are prepared to take advantage of them . |
| 17 | Perhaps it is true that everything points back to one 's youth : as a teenager Winters began a bottle collection after discovering a drugstore basement full of abandoned glass containers . |
| 18 | Perhaps it is true that the foreign trade organisation 's tortoise-like negotiations outpace the snail-like progress of Soviet machine building , but it can not be a thrilling race . |
| 19 | Perhaps it is inevitable that the west empathises more with countries whose cultures it comprehends better than those of Africa and Asia . |
| 20 | Perhaps it is inevitable that the relationship should be difficult . |
| 21 | Perhaps it is inevitable that interactive video will remain a favoured medium , at least until the digital options actually become easily , widely and affordably available . |
| 22 | With supporters of human rights making waves in virtually every country of the world , perhaps it was appropriate that Mr Martin 's last foreign visit as secretary general was to the remote alpine kingdom of Bhutan where he discussed the plight of the Nepali-speaking people with King Jigme Wangchuck . |
| 23 | Perhaps it was fortunate that at that time he discovered girls , and a year later met the Dawsons , who always seemed to have time to stop and gossip with him . |
| 24 | Perhaps it was fortunate that he had no inkling of how trying it was going to be . |
| 25 | Perhaps it was understandable that Gustave thought I was only jealous . |
| 26 | If Hugh thought she knew everything perhaps it was better that he should think it . |
| 27 | Perhaps it was better that we did not meet ; the coin should n't be allowed to see its other side . |
| 28 | She wished she had n't seen that , but perhaps it was best that she had . |
| 29 | Perhaps it was unfortunate that she asked . |
| 30 | Perhaps it was this that prompted Mr Milosevic to dispatch an emissary to the Bosnian Serbs , asking them to sign the plan . |