Example sentences of "it is [adv] [verb] that [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 It is also proposed that widescale improvements and expansions to existing roads should take place in the next decade .
32 It is also suggested that determination by the tenant would give rise to a breach , ie failure to carry out the tenant 's works .
33 It is usually said that repetition is used for emphasis .
34 However , as explained , such problems are often symptoms of deeper organisational and management problems : ‘ It is often assumed that stress is caused by too much work or tasks that are too difficult , but it is more likely to be because staff do n't have a context for what they are doing . ’
35 It is often assumed that winter is the most suitable time for training yet only 43% indicated that any time during winter would be suitable .
36 For example , it is often assumed that multiculturalism is methodologically individualist , and reduces racism to an individual pathology of prejudice , whilst antiracism is radically holist and insists on the primacy of structural processes .
37 It is often argued that survey data give a very limited analysis of managerial policies which are developed over a period to deal with specific problems and this study should help to test such methodological criticisms .
38 It is often argued that television has contributed much to the trivialization of politics in general and to the nomination process in particular .
39 Secondly , it is often argued that farm workers are compensated for their low wages by a cornucopia of payments in kind .
40 For example , it is often said that testing assumes that intelligence can be quantified by a single number , as in a much-praised recent book , The Mismeasure of Man , by a palaeontologist , Stephen Jay Gould .
41 It is often said that Order 53 procedure is designed to be speedy and that cases raising significant disputes of fact are not suitable for resolution under Ord. 53 .
42 It is often said that alcohol is ‘ the only little pleasure that old people have ’ , which may be true to an extent , but if drinking becomes a problem then it is for the individuals to decide how much of a pleasure drinking is , and whether they want help to stop .
43 It is often said that delegation is the art of management .
44 It is often thought that drug addiction is a failure of will-power and is evidence of a weak will or inadequate personality .
45 After an accident it is often found that maintenance work as well as repairs is necessary and it is quite natural that the Policyholder will want both carried out at the same time .
46 Although it is often claimed that exercise has a beneficial psychological effect in its own right , the evidence for this is scanty and it is always difficult to separate the specific effect of exercise from the moral support and social contact which usually goes with it .
47 It is often claimed that hypertension is prevalent in diabetic subjects ( Christlieb , 1982 ) , although the evidence for such a statement is conflicting and by no means universally accepted .
48 It is sometimes argued that criticism of the plaintiff after his writ has been issued , and a failure to apologise prior to trial , is evidence of malice .
49 Giving science a more feminine image : It is sometimes argued that science textbooks are sexist in showing illustrations of boys , rather than girls , doing practical work in the laboratory , and so forth .
50 It is sometimes said that mutation is ‘ random ’ .
51 It is sometimes claimed that stylometry enables the scholar to identify the fingerprint of an author , a stylistic criterion , or set of criteria , which can be used to determine with certainty questions of disputed authorship .
52 In the great amount of talk about the permissive society , it is sometimes claimed that marriage is losing its sanctity because couples live together without being married and the number of illegitimate babies ( those born to unmarried mothers ) is rising .
53 It is sometimes claimed that predator assemblages are of little use in palaeoecological interpretation because of this bias , and because they take prey from areas far removed from the place where the prey remains are deposited by the predator .
54 It is sometimes thought that rigorism can take adequate account of what seems troubling here by recognizing that if we ask too much of ourselves we damage our power to do good by becoming worn out or embittered .
55 It is currently thought that cholesterol gall stones arise because of a triple hepatobiliary defect : cholesterol supersaturation of gall bladder bile , reduction gall bladder contractility , and increased rate of cholesterol nucleation , probably due to mucin glycoprotein hypersecretion .
56 It is therefore argued that translation is the specific practice of lawyers in terms of which their place in the social structure should be theorised .
57 It is further argued that child tutors are , by comparison with adult teachers , more sensitive to and aware of misunderstanding in other children .
58 It is further suggested that funding for such a programme might be available through the European Community 's information technology programmes .
59 But it is still found that entry qualifications for the bureaucracy are disproportionately obtained by the children of skilled and professional groups , not workers and peasants , so the emergence of a new kind of bourgeoisie seems inevitable ( Barnett 1967 ) .
60 It is commonly said that tsunamis are usually triggered by earthquakes or violent volcanic explosions .
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