Example sentences of "it is [adv] [verb] that the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Many diverse schools still come from Okinawa , but it is generally accepted that the mainstay of much of the karate that is practised in the world today is the original shotokan style , brought from Okinawa to Japan by karate 's modern-day founder and innovator , Gichin Funakoshi . |
| 32 | It is generally accepted that the life span of the traditional flat felt roof is about 10 years . |
| 33 | It is generally accepted that the Etruscans were of foreign origin , of a mixed Hellenic and Oriental culture , probably but far from certainly from Asia Minor , and that they established themselves in central Italy , in the area between the Arno and the Tiber , in the eighth century B.C. The civilisation appears to have developed and grown quickly and extensively and , by about 700 B.C. , the Etruscans were living an urban life in fine cities with wealthy citizens , and were capable of a high standard of building and visual and literary arts . |
| 34 | A clear waiver of subrogation rights issued by the insurers is obviously preferred , but it is generally accepted that the noting of interests will have the same effect , although there is no guarantee of this . |
| 35 | 2 The time at which reasonableness is considered It is generally accepted that the relevant time at which reasonableness is to be considered is the time of entering the contract . |
| 36 | It is generally felt that the manager should be responsible for his or her own office overheads , telephone bills , secretarial services and so on . |
| 37 | It is generally felt that the tines are too close together to be used for carding wool , although some simpler combs which may be wool-combs are known . |
| 38 | Most young people in Britain grow up in families , and it is generally acknowledged that the family plays an important part in the development of the future adult . |
| 39 | Whilst there is still some pressure for further reform , it is generally recognised that the Lords do perform a useful function and the abolition lobby no longer enjoys the political significance it once did . |
| 40 | ‘ Once it is generally realized that the animals are such close kin to us , then meat-eating will be disdained as too near to cannibalism for comfort . |
| 41 | While Mr Patiño may well be selling to simplify his life after he moves into his new London residence , Mrs Johnson 's reasons for selling are much more controversial , as it is generally believed that the heiress has not paid for the celebrated Badminton Cabinet which she bought at Christie 's , London , in July 1990 for a record £7.6 million ( $15.2 million ) . |
| 42 | It is generally believed that the normal oesophagus is only active in response to a stimulus ( deglutition or oesophageal distension resulting in primary or secondary peristalsis ) and that non-glutitive activity of the oesophageal body is mostly abnormal . |
| 43 | It is generally believed that the law of real property in Malaysia is totally devoid of Islamic content … |
| 44 | Although some NMR studies have shown that it is possible to bind two actinomycin molecules to the tetranucleotide GCGC [ 29 ] , binding of the second molecule is highly anticooperative and it is generally believed that the exclusion site size for actinomycin , under normal conditions , is at least 4 base pairs [ 1 ] . |
| 45 | It is generally understood that the disease is spread by fleas and mosquitoes and since rabbits are gregarious by nature their close contact with each other automatically ensures the rapid spread of the disease . |
| 46 | It is generally recognized that the magnetic field of the Earth has periodically reversed : Warlow claimed that the Earth as a whole had flipped over . |
| 47 | In soil geography it is generally suggested that the systems approach was formally applied by Nikiforoff ( 1959 ) although earlier he had distinguished accumulative and non-accumulative soils and so implicitly involved an open system attitude ( Nikiforoff , 1949 ) . |
| 48 | It is generally expected that the profits firms receive as a result of collusion exceed those they would earn in the one-shot NE , otherwise they might as well not collude . |
| 49 | Although psychics describe the aura differently ( according to their own level of psychic perception ) , it is generally agreed that the aura is composed of at least three layers or levels . |
| 50 | For many , this would be the natural choice anyway with or without government policy , and it is generally agreed that the ideals behind community care are good ones . |
| 51 | It is generally agreed that the conference market is growing by approximately 10 per cent per annum . |
| 52 | It is generally agreed that the primitive mammals existing at that time were shrew-like creatures that lived by eating insects , and that the various groups of mammals that we see today , such as cats , rats , monkeys , whales , and horses , all evolved from this unpromising ancestor . |
| 53 | It is generally agreed that the advent of The Sunday Correspondent and The Independent On Sunday combined with falling circulation figures to precipitate a full-blown identity crisis at The Observer . |
| 54 | It is generally agreed that the young long-term unemployed present particular and often unfamiliar problems in the field of social , educational and employment policy . |
| 55 | This was an effective method of recognition , but it is generally agreed that the method works only for highly constrained tasks . |
| 56 | Similarly , it is generally agreed that the discourse-deictic words like moreover , besides , anyway , well , etc. , in utterance-initial position , do not make any difference to truth conditions ( Grice , 1961 , 1975 ; Wilson , 1975 ) . |
| 57 | However , as long as this distinction is understood , it is generally agreed that the term ‘ pitch ’ is a convenient one to use informally to refer both to the subjective sensation and to the objectively measurable fundamental frequency . |
| 58 | It is generally thought that the new Home Secretary , Kenneth Clarke , wants to review the Bill introduced by Kenneth Baker , his predecessor . |
| 59 | It is generally thought that the latter component should be small ( about one-third the concentration of H 2 O 2 ) which , given the lower sensitivity of the instrument for CH 3 OOH ( by a factor of 0.6 ) , implies that the total peroxide signal should approximate that for hydrogen peroxide alone . |
| 60 | It is generally thought that the climate became more oceanic in character . |