Example sentences of "[verb] it [be] [adj] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | With talk of a series of stand alone shops it 's hard to believe that the idea is n't to rival Marks . |
| 2 | Throughout the transaction process it is necessary to ensure that all of the parties are achieving their set responsibilities in accordance with the timetable and that , if not , the timetable is revised as necessary . |
| 3 | In this learning process it 's acceptable to remember that we are all imperfect . |
| 4 | Before starting a product-container compatibility test it is essential to ensure that complete detailed specifications for both the product and the primary container concerned have been received . |
| 5 | On the IBM 370 range it is possible to specify that the execute is to modify the second byte of the executed instruction . |
| 6 | She says it 's wrong to say that only Mrs Maxwell lost her pension . |
| 7 | I hope it is fair to say that the main thrust of the defence to this claim was based on law . |
| 8 | At the time of writing it is good to notice that local boys from ordinary homes in Portadown are still doing well . |
| 9 | Historians have correctly pointed out that to understand the kind of exchange that took place between Huxley and Wilberforce it is important to recognize that a major social transformation was taking place in which the clergy were losing their domination of the intellectual life of the nation . |
| 10 | And you know it is wrong to suggest that I 've any motives in that quarter because , between you and me , I ca n't stand the man . |
| 11 | ‘ On average I suppose it 's fair to say that they are down here once every three months so we know exactly what they want and how to give it to them . ’ |
| 12 | Having been involved in a substantial amount of this sort of work for 15 years , I believe it is correct to aver that once a person reaches 60 there is an unwritten rule or convention which determines that he or she shall not receive a first appointment . |
| 13 | I believe it is true to say that my company has hardly sold a single product in Japan ( and we sell many ) without having to respond to some particular specification , different to that pertaining in other parts of the world . |
| 14 | While I appreciate that you are quoting the system Inventor 's personal opinion I feel it is irresponsible to say that freeze branding spoils a horse/pony 's looks , especially as the item is in the format of a News Review not an advertisement . |
| 15 | To cite the now familiar evidence of mosaics from ( soil it is difficult to believe that the mosaic which features Bacchus in a square central panel amid an arrangement of saltires and interlaced squares ( Parlasca 1959 , pI . |
| 16 | ‘ Obviously it is possible to stay cheaper than the price we quoted , but we felt it was impossible to show that in our leaflet , ’ said Clydesdale marketing director Stuart Laing . |
| 17 | ( c ) Use It is vital to ensure that the use that the buyer intends is authorised for planning purposes . |
| 18 | I mean the one is a classic one when she knew it was Scottish based that she passed any correspondence on |
| 19 | I do n't think it 's reasonable to expect that you will ever get rid of jealousy or fear or anxiety . |
| 20 | ‘ We do not think it is possible to deny that there are circumstances in which individuals may justifiably choose to enter into a homosexual relationship ... [ although ] such a relationship could not be regarded as the moral or social equivalent of marriage . ' |
| 21 | In considering curriculum change it is vital to understand that this tripartite hierarchy of status has been reproduced not only in the respective parity of esteem between different categories of subject but also to kinds of knowledge within subjects . |
| 22 | Display material , advertisements and so on need the extra quality and , if these are the products which you will be producing it is important to ensure that you can move between the systems without having to change the data . |
| 23 | benefits , not knowing where to find out about benefits , and I think it 's right to say that benefits agency staff are there to give information and there is a |
| 24 | Er , overall I think it 's right to say that we 're disappointed by these results but we 're not downhearted . |
| 25 | In terms of Greater York and its th the York greenbelt I think it 's true to say that er some time ago when David Kaiserman of Manchester did research on greenbelts he came to the view , or he came up with the conclusions from his questionnaires that he sent round , and that study was done , must be ten , fifteen years ago or more , that greenbelts should endure unchanged for at least twenty years , and probably in excess of thirty , and those were the responses of county planning and other major planning authorities at that time , that view if anything has hardened , the public view would be way beyond thirty years . |
| 26 | In fact I think it 's true to say that when the forty six hectare figure wa was agreed , it was known that the coal field was coming and er I think time has shown has n't brought anything like the number of jobs or economic |
| 27 | I think it 's true to say that the design responsible company , Deutsch Aerospace erm has discovered that er there 's a lot more software in this system than they had originally imagined and the , their sub contractors of course , they 've had to er write various parts of that for them and erm putting together the four elements of the programme has been a lot more complex than anyone imagined . |
| 28 | I think it 's true to say that we give it to them and we also drink it ourselves . |
| 29 | There is an additional aspect that erm we we must look also , I think , at the viability of the services and facilities , er , within the new settlement , if the new settlement is , for the sake of argument five hundred houses then my submission is that that really offers no long term viability for any facility or service , erm , clearly you might get a primary school if the new settlement size was of the order of eight hundred to a thousand dwellings , but you would not get any sizable retail element , and so however far that settlement was located from the main centre they would still become dependant on that centre , and that 's why I think it 's important to recognize that if you are to achieve the erm if you like the balance of requirements , of achieving erm a reasonable degree of self containment within the new settlement , but also meet the needs of York , it has to be a reasonable size , but located as close to York as possible |
| 30 | I think it 's important to understand that all my work is about demystification — both of the self and of the medical and family discourses which defined me for much of my life . |