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

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1 okay , again I mean these are things that talk about confirmation I mean quite honestly I 'm I 'd be quite happy if we had offices where people talk to each other ninety per cent of the time rather than send memos and faxes to each other , and on the whole we are really talking about inside the office with the people who we work with I mean obviously clients as well trying to find something different , we tend tend to find that it 's very very easy sometimes to make a phone call it 's much easier to make a phone call and to talk to that person and give them the personal touch .
2 AIDS causing the death of the young has highlighted that it is not only the elderly who wish to make provision against an artificially prolonged end .
3 But I 've come to accept that it 's far more sensitive and vulnerable than my other possessions and it can not be hauled back to the manufacturers at the first sign of malfunction .
4 Recent work has confined that it is not possible to measure intensity of subjective sensation in a way that is distinct from and independent of measurement of the physical stimulus from which it is derived ; that Fechner 's logarithmic transform exists only as a mathematical construction to link reports of sensations with measurements of stimuli ; and an experimental subject 's conformity to Stevens ' power law depends on his getting the experiment ‘ right ’ .
5 The child needs to know that it is not his fault that everyone is so upset and that someone has died and he is not being punished .
6 This chapter has argued that it is not only national population size , composition and behaviour that matter but also their changing patterns across regional and urban systems .
7 Luce Irigaray , for instance , has argued that it is totally reductive to define the feminine as the not-masculine in relation , say , to sexuality .
8 I 'd like to I 'd like to thank the panel for the work which they have done on this very difficult issue and , although the convenor has said that it is perhaps a difficult thing to alter the text of such a document on the floor of the house , I think we also have to point out that this is our only opportunity to comment upon this particular draft which will become a definitive draft if passed by the general assembly today .
9 IMRO , the City watchdog responsible for regulating fund managers , has revealed that it was already probing Dumenil 's administration following complaints from investors that they were receiving their income late .
10 In addition , experience has shown that it is equally important to make a provisional assessment of factors such as development and staffing costs , and the technical feasibility of pursuing any proposed computer initiatives .
11 The name reflects the fact that the animal 's horns and head resemble the Arabian oryx , but DNA analysis has shown that it is most closely related to the oxen family .
12 Analysis has shown that it is not just the recipe for the pickling solution which affects the colour but , more fundamentally , low levels of alloying elements added to the copper .
13 Experience has shown that it is not enough to train PHCNs for a year and then send to isolated rural clinics .
14 More recent research has shown that it is only some carbohydrate foods which cause this problem , not all of them .
15 Research has shown that it is often the case that a plaintiff 's solicitor either does not have the resources to undertake investigations or is loath to seek out all available reports .
16 I want to suggest that it is ultimately unsatisfactory , both on intellectual and political grounds .
17 He has grasped that it is more profitable to attack the Government for incompetence and negligence than to present it as a systematic and all-too-competent conspiracy against the people .
18 The audit regime has teeth and , through refusing to register some firms and imposing conditions on others , the Institute has demonstrated that it is not afraid to bite .
19 By recording body temperatures throughout the day of groups of well-adjusted shiftworkers , intolerant shiftworkers , and day-workers who had given up shiftwork because they could not tolerate it , Reinberg has demonstrated that it is indeed the best-adjusted group whose circadian rhythm was most immutable .
20 Careful instruction on its use is necessary : the user needs to understand that it is not a miracle cure but that it can provide real if limited help .
21 Governments are expected to meet again here on January 18 to review the past six months , and many , particularly the US , are expected to argue that it is far too soon to be sending Vietnamese back against their will .
22 The Treasury team needs to realise that it is now in competition .
23 A broader assessment of fiscal policy has concluded that it was positively destabilising but , as has been suggested above , this was probably of marginal significance [ Dow , 1964 ; Blackaby , 1978 ] .
24 ‘ Personally , I am disappointed that The Stock Exchange has indicated that it is not interested in following this route . ’
25 Burton has declared that it was when he was performing that scene on the stage that he felt the hairs on his neck stand on end and knew for the first time the power he could have over an audience .
26 THE conversion of the Bury to Manchester line to Metrolink operations has meant that it is no longer available for conventional locomotives and trains .
27 Such things as fingers , hernias and extended navels have caused problems in practice when the defence has submitted that it was not the penis which was exposed but some other similar looking object .
28 She tried to explain that it was only the symptoms that had gone , and that now we had to tackle the causes .
29 ‘ They tried to explain that it was only sand and it was all a stunt , but it was lit up with radioactivity signs and we take our environmental responsibilities very seriously . ’
30 By preventing ovulation it may ben suppress menstruation — a useful advantage , once the user has realized that it is not a sign of disastrous contraceptive failure .
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