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

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61 I think that it is generally agreed that a positive way forward is to have a partnership between farming and environmental interests .
62 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 .
63 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 .
64 It is generally agreed that the conference market is growing by approximately 10 per cent per annum .
65 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 .
66 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 .
67 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 .
68 This was an effective method of recognition , but it is generally agreed that the method works only for highly constrained tasks .
69 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 ) .
70 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 .
71 It is generally thought that the new Home Secretary , Kenneth Clarke , wants to review the Bill introduced by Kenneth Baker , his predecessor .
72 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 .
73 It is generally thought that the climate became more oceanic in character .
74 Certainly in certain professions such as teaching , nursing or social work it is generally considered that a desire to serve the public is of paramount importance .
75 It is generally considered that the name Corstopitum is corrupt and Rivet and Smith prefer Coriosopitum .
76 Although it is generally supposed that the first truly mechanical escapement was of the verge-and-foliot type found in various church clocks throughout Europe , the earliest escapement of which we have definite detailed knowledge is that of the clock designed for the Abbey of St Albans c.1328 by Richard of Wallingford ( c.1292–1336 ) , the son of a blacksmith , who became Abbot in 1327 .
77 ( ’ Subjective' here has nothing to do with ethical subjectivism ; it is generally supposed that the existence of this subjective obligation is an objective fact . )
78 The ‘ broken ’ colours of the Blenheim and tricolour seem to be more popular , and it is generally held that the ‘ whole colours ’ are the more active of the breed .
79 It is generally held that the icon has virtually faded after about quarter of a second from stimulus offset .
80 It is generally held that the glaciations were approximately synchronous in both hemispheres so that the climatic belts of both hemispheres tended to move towards the equator simultaneously .
81 Certainly , nowhere within it does a wife pledge that she will have sexual intercourse with her husband upon demand : indeed , it is expressly stated that the purpose of matrimony is not ‘ to satisfy men 's carnal lusts and appetites . ’
82 While , as indicated above , the process of evangelisation will permeate all aspects of the school , it is firmly maintained that the witness of the confident , yet sympathetic R.E .
83 It is normally assumed that a given variable would have remained constant in the absence of integration .
84 It is normally posited that the marginal disutility of employment is an increasing function of the actual level of employment .
85 It is thus proposed that the view representation need not be as complex as the analysis model , but only of sufficient detail to fully explain or show the requested solution .
86 Similarly it is soon accepted that the ‘ ostrich ’ theory of closing one 's eyes and assuming that thereby either oneself or things in the environment will actually disappear is not tenable .
87 However , it is nevertheless suggested that the draftsman is unlikely to be able to provide a satisfactory procedure for future disputes without losing most of the advantages of determination by expert .
88 However , it is easily seen that a single false positive will create a fork in a map ( a loop in a graph or a shared branch in a tree ) .
89 In the latter case it is easily shown that the matching in fact yields an equivalence once induction has been used to deal with lower levels .
90 It is frequently assumed that the Specification is a device designed to enable the pursuer to make life difficult for the insured , the insurer and the solicitor for both .
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