Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] that it [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government were part of the process of blocking the directive until it was so badly mauled that it is now very different from the one that we first saw and debated in the House a month ago . |
| 2 | If Berg was successfully to allege that it was fraudulently misled , it must show that some natural person connected with it had been misled , and Berg could not do this . |
| 3 | Below that your ‘ bottom time ’ — the time between leaving the surface and commencing your ascent — is so limited that it 's hardly worthwhile . ’ |
| 4 | The ground was so contaminated that it was too dangerous even to try to remove the soil . |
| 5 | Editor , — Fritz H Schröder rightly emphasises that it is not known whether treatment of early prostatic cancer is beneficial or whether screening for the disease offers any advantage . |
| 6 | In some cases land has become so degraded that it is agriculturally worthless . |
| 7 | I have been in the House long enough to know that it is not appropriate for me to comment on evidence given to a Select Committee until that Committee has reported . |
| 8 | The uses for speech synthesis are so varied that it is almost impossible to list them . |
| 9 | It has taken five years to get this one right and the Government will not want to repeat the mistakes of the mid-1980s when Nigel Lawson thought he had beaten inflation , only to discover that it was just sleeping . |
| 10 | In real life we may solve the problem that seems to confront us only to find that it is not the most important problem . |
| 11 | So , like a mug , I went out and bought it , only to find that it is n't anything like Pink Floyd . |
| 12 | The party reached the lip of the main summit crater safely , only to find that it was quite docile , and that there was little to see within the crater apart from dense , swirling clouds of pungent sulphurous steam . |
| 13 | She was so absorbed that it was not for some time that she realized that the sea on her left was no longer the water of the estuary but had become the ocean . |
| 14 | Sitting on the train she had suddenly thought that it was not worth it . |
| 15 | This was one of the older parts of the forest , and its silence was a thousand-year atmosphere so distilled that it was almost physically affecting . |
| 16 | It was only minutes , the duration of that fleeting armistice , but such a stillness was so unaccustomed , embraced a silence so complete that it was always noticed , and wondered at . |
| 17 | We can only conclude that it was chiefly in the enthusiasm with which the British talked about it all . |
| 18 | Restaurateurs obviously know that it 's not in their best interests to poison people : however , seemingly inaccessible places can harbour dirt and discarded food scraps , which in turn encourage rodents , cockroaches and other pests . |
| 19 | She had long understood that it was not a healthy situation for any of them , and the sooner Elizabeth realised that , the better . |
| 20 | As ta ; tends to unity the types become progressively more far sighted , so to ensure that it is still not worth engaging in the permanent imitation of z = 0 the benefits from following the equilibrium strategy are increased . |
| 21 | Sometimes I do n't seem real to myself , it suddenly seems that it is n't my reflection only a foot or two away . |
| 22 | But as we saw earlier , the fact that a gift expresses a relationship ( as a symbol ) does not necessarily imply that it is not also of great economic importance for the parties concerned . |
| 23 | Since the BFS is non-degenerate this can only mean that it is not efficient . |
| 24 | All these facts concerning the particular mechanisms of the paper industry added together meant that it was quite unlikely that Rembrandt would buy two batches of paper prepared by the same paper mill using the same mould . |
| 25 | Although power is widely spread it does not necessarily mean that it is evenly spread between all groups . |
| 26 | This fact alone implies that it was not an exhausting activity but was used for relaxation and entertainment . |
| 27 | ( This perhaps indicates that it was tactically inept in this case for the plaintiffs to seek to persuade the court that the whole package of information was confidential. ) 5 Whether additional protection should be afforded to an employer where the former employee is not seeking to earn his living by making use of the body of skill , knowledge and experience which he has acquired in the course of his career , but is merely selling to a third party information which he acquired in confidence in the course of his former employment Goulding J drew no such distinction . |
| 28 | Mr. Grist : The Hon. Gentleman had better prove that it is not clean and fit to drink . |
| 29 | To assert that all normal human behaviour is culturally moulded does not necessarily prove that it is also culturally determined . |
| 30 | It produces no smoke , and its heat output is so controlled that it is not much warmer than the surrounding air and therefore hard for infra-red devices to detect . |