Example sentences of "it be [adj] that it " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Hasted , professor of physics at Birkbeck College , University of London , and an investigator of the paranormal , was very wary when told that Shaw and Edwards had been fakers ‘ It 's possible that it 's true , ’ he told New Scientist Asked about his conclusions from his own work he said ‘ I accept that there are , shall we say , pulses of paranormal action which take the form of mini-acoustical shock waves . |
| 2 | one of the reasons for introducing the community charge that and it 's ironic that it was just possible , especially in nineteen erm ninety erm that the community charge was meaning wa was bringing about a change where people were voting on local issues , the prime local issue of course being what would be the level of the , of the community charge . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's ironic that it should be a colleague who caused the wound , because I have now toured New Zealand three times and watched their style of rucking . |
| 4 | Although I do n't think it 's impossible that it ca n't be the other way , that two people ca n't grow toward each other . |
| 5 | I 'm confident that the scheme wo n't cost anything like as much as the estimate , but I 'm , I 'm sure it 's right that it 's been , having having done some background work to see how many people might claim it I 'm confident that that we 've erred on the safe side here by a substantial amount , and that 's why I 'm sure it can be met from the overall budget . |
| 6 | Assistant Chief Constable John McKenzie Moore said : ‘ It 's worrying that it turned up . ’ |
| 7 | He was loved so much , it 's unbelievable that it 's happened . |
| 8 | It 's marvellous that it should be that way and and good that it should be that way too because you know the air waves seem to be full of very noisy songs at the moment that that jar a lot of people . |
| 9 | It 's good that it 's aimed at women . |
| 10 | I see well it 's convenient that it comes at the end of a week 's holiday is n't it ? |
| 11 | It 's wicked that it should bloom unseen in the wild . |
| 12 | One local MP says it 's outrageous that it costs two thousand pounds a week to keep the boy at the centre . |
| 13 | But it 's likely that it 'll be the last showing at Notts County Council of course . |
| 14 | As a producer , MacCabe is naturally enough dismayed by this pro-directorial bias : ‘ If you look at what 's been happening to British cinema over the last 10 years or so , then it 's clear that it has tended to be production-led — names like Working Title , Palace Films or Zenith are as important as those of any individual director . |
| 15 | But it 's clear that it 's hardly plausible to account for the current indie mire in those terms , as a problem of indulgence , pretentiousness , over-inflated ambition and gross-out . |
| 16 | right , you did that much and then you re-wound it back to the beginning then , it 's stubborn that it wo n't do it , it will not re-wind |
| 17 | Er , sir , at the risk of straying slightly into into two B , you , do forgive me in advance , but you raised the specific point about size , and and erm there was er one or two statements that there is n't a a clear view on size in P P G three , I think it 's important to bear in mind the interrelationship between all P P G s and as Mr Curtis said , the research that that backs them up , and I I I point you to three quotes in the statement that C P R E have put in , erm i i i paragraph four point one seven , an and s the quote that attaches to that is taken from the research that erm er backs up draft revised P P G thirteen , transport , and erm I shall quote from that on this question of size , i it is also evident that smaller settlements , those with populations of less than fifty thousand , but particularly very small settlements are characteristically less transport emissions efficient than larger settlements , I think the the erm essence of of that particular piece of research is not as Mr Davis was implying to achieve totally self contained settlements , I do n't believe such a concept exists , it 's actually erm a planning land use in the long term to reduce C O two emi emissions something that is essential now to government policy , I think perhaps more instructive though is is the quote that I 've in included in paragraph four point one nine and that 's taken from er er this book here which I perhaps should submit the whole chapter in evidence to the panel , I 've only just included one quote , it 's it 's I suggest one of the more interesting reads that you may have as a result of this panel , it 's by Colin Ward , and it 's called New Town , Home Town , it 's undertaken by er , sorry includes some of the work that 's been undertaken by the University of Reading , erm and er David Lock Associates , on erm er new town research , and this this is due to be published by H M S O shortly , it 's unfortunate that it was n't available in time for this E I P , but I think erm , if you 'll bear with me , I will read out the quote that I put in four point one nine , because I feel that it is useful on this question of of size , we concluded that if you are interested in environmental impact , energy conser consumption , and sustainability , new settlements have to reach a certain size to be worthwhile , it 's parallel to the old arguments that used to take place around self containment in new towns , we found that new settlements of much less than five thousand houses , that 's about fourteen thousand people are not really worthwhile because if they are smaller than that you are simply putting a housing estate in the countryside , a phrase that that has already been put round this morning , it appears that the best minimum for a new settlement , the best minimum , is about ten thousand houses , that 's that 's twenty five thousand people , which as it happens is about the size of the original garden cities . |
| 18 | I 'm , I 'm , if there any question over it , the reason why I said ten days I 'm already sitting in London for , until the end of next week and therefore if there were any question , it 's obvious that it came before me , and that |
| 19 | It 's true that it seduces us with its pulse-quickening thrill , but it also serves as a privileged glimpse into the paranoia , loneliness and tunnel vision of the male survivalist . |
| 20 | Rain said : ‘ Assuming it 's true that it 's heroin … ’ |
| 21 | I mean I think I 'd like to comment on the way some of the discussion was going earlier , because although it 's true that it 's largely men who are seen as creating the problem , there are certainly large numbers of men in positions of authority in the university who are very concerned about it , and who have been led to re-examine their own behaviour , and who now comment on how uncomfortable and constrained they themselves feel . |
| 22 | You might agree that it 's wasteful that it 's not the best way of channelling the resources but the fact is that the global amount available because of it is much greater than it was and that will be our baseline to start from if they decide to reorganise the money in a different way . |
| 23 | He says that he thinks it 's unlikely that it will hit ; in fact there 's less than a one in 10,000 chance . |
| 24 | I knew it would n't be here this week you know I mean if they 've told her there 's another three to four weeks it 's unlikely that it was gon na be last weekend . |
| 25 | And I kept telling him , yeah , Oliver , but the day that , you know , some Nicaraguan unity group appears and it 's evident that it 's got everybody in it … that 's the day I 'll begin to believe that this thing has a future . |
| 26 | ( I suppose it 's lucky that it was n't called Chapter 9 . ) |
| 27 | But it is proud that it eschewed the now-or-never mentality that drove others to make acquisitions in the run-up to Europe 's single market in financial services . |
| 28 | Only if the House of Lords decides that it is appropriate that it should decide the uncertified point should it do so , perhaps in circumstances like those in Gallagher where the certified issue and the question ultimately determined by the House of Lords were not easily disentangled . |
| 29 | Although written testing is still in common use , ( and it is appropriate that it should be for outcomes which are knowledge-based ) , other instruments such as projects , case studies and assignments were commonly used too . |
| 30 | Since Malinowski made no secret of his earthy , materialist view of man 's motives it is odd that it has taken modern exponents of transactional analysis and game theory so long to recognize his pioneering achievements in this field . |