Example sentences of "it is [adv] [adj] that " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is very rare that we disagree as an industry , but it is equally rare that we speak in a co-ordinated way , ’ he said . |
| 32 | While it is true that most houses in the world 's seismic zones are made from earth , and most deaths in earthquakes are attributable to the collapse of earthen structures , it is equally certain that high-tech solutions will never be disseminated . |
| 33 | It is equally probable that the separation of the South Slav languages into Serb , Croat , Slovene , Macedonian and Bulgarian was then in an early stage of development , if it had occurred at all . |
| 34 | But it is equally necessary that humans engage in a ceaseless and violent struggle with beings which attack from outside the bounds of society . |
| 35 | It is equally convincing that although the level of unemployment may have an effect on price inflation , there may well be other factors of greater short-term impact , for example , the incorporation of previous price increases into current wage bargaining , regardless of the level of unemployment . |
| 36 | Perhaps Jesus meant by this the ‘ outcasts ’ of Jewish society , although it is equally possible that he meant that God 's message — the kingdom — was for everyone , regardless of race . |
| 37 | It is equally possible that within such a framework schools and communities could offer curricula that reflected the responsiveness and diversity that many value . |
| 38 | It may be that the Breton expedition was intended to keep up pressure on the French to make the sort of concessions the English would feel able to accept , but it is equally possible that the confused direction of English policy reflected conflicting influences at court . |
| 39 | It might , of course , mean that that particular person will readily be labelled ‘ deviant ’ , but it is equally possible that an individual could fully appreciate the attitude(s) of the generalized other and yet choose not to act within its framework . |
| 40 | Miron 's tentative conclusion is that older staff may become less concerned about teaching as they develop other priorities ; but it is equally possible that students are responding more similarly , and more favourably , to lecturers who are more like themselves . |
| 41 | It is equally possible that these officials were billeted on local householders , a practice which became increasingly common among Roman army units in the late empire . |
| 42 | But it is equally possible that he could spoil any chances he might have had by making some political slip . |
| 43 | But it is equally essential that they should know their school . |
| 44 | It is equally undeniable that they derive great pleasure from physical confrontations with rival groups of supporters and go to great lengths to evade the authorities and make such confrontations possible . |
| 45 | It is equally intolerable that locked gates separate students and teachers of King 's College and the Courtauld Institute , and that surly security men seem intent on excluding the public from the place altogether . |
| 46 | It is equally astonishing that the Germans never guessed that we were breaking the Enigma code . |
| 47 | But it is equally clear that both the discovery of the first teichoic acid and those systematic endeavours afterwards are properly described as ‘ research ’ . |
| 48 | But it is equally clear that its nature can not be accounted for by demonstrating its rules by a random use of any lexical items that come to mind . |
| 49 | If politicians were normally able to manipulate freeholders and councillors by judicious use of their patronage powers , it is equally clear that they were on occasion themselves manipulated , and for all David Scott 's obvious embarrassment over the Robinson affair , it is evident that he felt unable to show much resentment towards the man who had led him into that predicament . |
| 50 | However it is equally clear that large Japanese companies do hold a powerful competitive edge because of the ease with which they can alter the balance between their own output and that of their smaller suppliers . |
| 51 | And yet it is equally clear that in the minds of those who believed in his divinity , he was indeed a god . |
| 52 | It is equally clear that Z fails in Zn whenever n is composite . |
| 53 | But it is equally clear that direct , participatory democracy is , if not impossible , at least not very practicable in the modern world , and is in any case a recipe for bad government : " a community in mass is ill adapted for the business of Government … all numerous assemblies are essentially incapable of business . " |
| 54 | It has become clear over the years that a level of formality is required for fair and impartial decision making , though it is equally clear that proper decision making does not always require ritual conduct or observance of the formal rules of evidence . |
| 55 | It is equally clear that the antonym of namely was not confined to a class of medrese , as in all likelihood was , or came to be , but had a much wider usage as an essentially geographical term . |
| 56 | It is clear that the proportion of abusers is very small ; it is equally clear that the vast majority of drinkers do not abuse alcohol at all . |
| 57 | It is equally clear that some directors have privately expressed fears that , given the crudeness with which the 1993–4 budget trends will have been constructed , severe cash shortages could affect them by September . |
| 58 | However , it is equally plain that these agreements have been no more than limited curbs on the growth of nuclear weaponry . |
| 59 | It is equally likely that the activities associated with meals ( chewing , digesting and absorbing food ) could all send information to the SCN via nerves from the gut . |
| 60 | The implications of these findings are doubly serious because it is equally likely that the spindle-disrupting action of alcohol could occur during the first meiotic division . |