Example sentences of "it is [adv] [verb] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is particularly fitting that we should have the debates on education and employment on the same day , because education is a continuing process throughout life upon which employment is heavily dependent . |
| 32 | Local farmers and regional government often hold large emergency stocks which are not counted , but it is nevertheless accepted that they represent a trend . |
| 33 | Several attempts , he wrote , had been made by " former prospectors " to sink upon this lode " but it is heavily watered that they could not go down more than 3 or 4 fathoms deep " . |
| 34 | It is clear that Wagner became genuinely fond of Nietzsche , but for all the young professor 's admiration of him as a person , Wagner — it is a notorious fact — was a supremely egocentric man ; it is easily inferred that he glimpsed in Nietzsche a means of gaining respectability in hitherto hostile academic circles , and that it was this glimpse , as much as anything , that encouraged his fond feelings to grow . |
| 35 | It is frequently said that you can make statistics say what you want them to say . |
| 36 | It is frequently denied that there is a relationship between religion and violence in Ireland . |
| 37 | It is traditionally accepted that it was in about the year 753 B.C. that a tribe of people settled near the Tiber on the Palatine Hill . |
| 38 | Because the level of transactions was so high ahead of the slump in house prices , it is widely believed that there is a substantial number of homeowners waiting to sell when prices do start to recover . |
| 39 | Whether the life sentence is regarded as a sufficient denunciation in society depends on the public 's perception of what life imprisonment means : if it is widely believed that it results in an average of nine years ' imprisonment , the effect will be somewhat blunted . |
| 40 | It is widely recognised that it is not production of food but the low level of demand for food that is the problem for many and for varied reasons related to the forces and relations of production in which people are involved . |
| 41 | Thomson is state-owned and though there has been no overt policy statement from the French Government , it is widely accepted that its attitude towards the merger will be at least coloured by the MoD 's decision . |
| 42 | Self-promotion of that sort may be a matter for amused comment , but it is widely accepted that one may choose one 's Place in the pecking order , or try to , and that in Britain parentage does not irreversibly define class . |
| 43 | It is widely thought that they are descended from genes , or groups of genes , of higher organisms , which have somehow escaped and set up life on their own . |
| 44 | It is widely thought that it will , but that special protection will be given to historical portraits , textiles , arms and armour , and architectural and scientific drawings . |
| 45 | It is widely known that there are harmful effects from inhalation of outfall from a lead works ; for children who ingest it by licking lead-painted toys ; and for families whose drinking water is supplied through lead pipes . |
| 46 | Until it is universally accepted that nobody whatsoever has title to property other than that held under rules to be agreed and laid down by all humankind , as distinct from those alleged to have been the product of some ‘ god ’ or other , will the first step towards formulating those rules have been taken . |
| 47 | However , among their ranks it is universally believed that their leader — Rabbi Menachem Schneerson — will fulfil the Messianic prophecy . |
| 48 | . It is clearly implied that it is not . |
| 49 | To continue with the example of India , it is well documented that there was a massive economic ‘ drain' which transferred substantial export surpluses of goods and bullion to Britain . |
| 50 | It is well documented that there are geographical variations in both health status and health care expenditure within Britain . |
| 51 | For those who love labels , then , modern British literature in that aspect might conveniently be called Aristophanic — provided , that is , it is well understood that its novelists and playwrights can not be assumed to have taken any attentive interest in ancient Greek comedy , and that coincidence is all it is . |
| 52 | This comes as a great shock to me because it is well understood that anyone who does not like Erich Kleiber 's conducting must be a Nazi ! ’ |
| 53 | It is well established that we are in fact in a state of muscular flaccid paralysis during REM sleep , with the exception of the muscles controlling respiration , and the eyes . |
| 54 | It is well established that there are voters whose preferences are influenced by the alphabetical sequence in which candidates ' surnames appear on the ballot paper . |
| 55 | An undertaking is defined in reg 3 of the Transfer Regulations as including any trade or business , and as a result of a series of cases ( Kenmir Ltd v Frizzell [ 1968 ] 1 All ER 414 ; Batchelor v Premier Motors ( Romford ) Ltd COIT 1359/181 19.11.82 ; Premier Motors ( Medway ) Ltd v Total Oil ( GB ) Ltd [ 1984 ] ICR 58 ; Spijkers v Gebr Benedik Abattoir CV [ 1986 ] 2 CMLR 296 ) it is well established that there will be a transfer of an undertaking for the purpose of the Transfer Regulations only if " the business concerned is transferred as a going concern " . |
| 56 | It is well known that we remember best what comes first and what comes last in any period of study or reading . |
| 57 | It is well known that they always develop their more satisfying choreographic ideas when working with a group of dancers whose abilities they know . |
| 58 | ‘ Lady Isabella , ’ Cranston said smoothly , ‘ it is well known that your husband had strange tastes and foibles . |
| 59 | Rolls-Royce spokesman David Preston said : ‘ It is well known that our sales have been 50 per cent down on what they were in 1990 so any reduction is welcome . ’ |
| 60 | ‘ It is well known that you do not reason as other men . |