Example sentences of "[is] [adj] that [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is absurd that we have to be tied up in private Bill procedure in order to allow railway developments of the type that we are discussing tonight . |
| 2 | Unless you absolutely hate cooking , or are just too busy , it is preferable that you experiment with some of the recipes in order to keep the diet interesting . |
| 3 | It is possible that it came from the east of the Frankish confederacy , rather than the Rhineland . |
| 4 | It is possible that he contributed to early issues of the newsbook , but there is no evidence that he was responsible for editing it , and nothing in his future career or conduct to link him directly with the Levellers . |
| 5 | Yet decisions about the significance , for entry into higher education , of school-level achievement in public examinations are made all the time — and it is odd that they seem to be made without reference to CNAA , BTEC or the NCVQ . |
| 6 | Yeah , it 's interesting that we talk about single parent families but the two or three people at the beginning talked about erm , the one parent , the father was in actual fact , I know he was actually resident there was probably his his erm interest was non-existent . |
| 7 | I mean it 's about sort of you know in it 's about increasing the erm where we are within our own particular sphere and it 's far too much I mean people it 's interesting that I mean for the , it seems to me an and once again correction but it seems to me the last five years the empowerment thing was really strong and now managers are moving away from it and saying it 's jargon as a means of diluting it . |
| 8 | On the one hand , it is clear that we depend for survival upon our bodies , whereas we may not want to say that God depends upon the world for survival . |
| 9 | Although precise definitions are hard to come by , it is clear that they looked to some kind of ideal worker , that is , someone who was trustworthy , interested , intelligent , literate and numerate , full of initiative , and capable of mental and physical agility . |
| 10 | If , for instance , guests used a swimming pool at a hotel after dark , it is clear that they have by so doing stepped outside the scope of their invitation or permission to use that part of the premises , and a duty is not owed to them . |
| 11 | It has been said that he provided no leadership and lacked control of the episcopate , and it is clear that he waited on events in 1326–7 , only casting his lot with Isabella and Mortimer when the king 's cause was obviously lost . |
| 12 | His biographer attributes the protracted proceedings there to Hamo 's unwillingness to bribe the cardinals ( although it is clear that he retained at least Cardinal William Testa at the curia ) , as well as to the proliferation of other candidates with royal support . |
| 13 | To begin with the efficacy of parliamentary control , it is clear that it suffers from the federal constitution itself : the intricacy of policy decisions , complex inter-governmental decision-making structures at the national , sub-national and supranational level , and the inherent complexity of new policy areas , have all made parliamentary scrutiny more difficult . |
| 14 | Given the anomalous circumstances of Germany , it is clear that there needs to be some form of general realignment within the ERM . |
| 15 | I think it should be remembered that that public support actually was against a requirement of one thousand nine hundred dwellings , which is not quite the proposal being put forward by the County at the moment , but it is clear that there seems to me n not to be any public or great strength of public objection to the sort of proposals that are now before you in this enquiry , and it also seems to me that the reasons behind erm that that public support are essentially because it meets the first requirement of paragraph P P G thirty three , that the alternative expansion of existing towns or villages will represent a less satisfactory method of providing land for new housing that is needed , I think that is the essence of the public support , and so first of I think you can say that that 's that means that first criteria , and certainly it seems to meet the second automatically because it an expression of public preference . |
| 16 | It is clear that there have to be some restrictions on the exercise by citizens of freedom of speech , the right to demonstrate , the application of pressure on governments through industrial action or other means . |
| 17 | It is interesting that he talks of people getting nothing for their additional contributions in the very week when the hon. Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) writes an article in a magazine in praise of the contributory principle — indeed , in praise of Beveridge in this the 50th anniversary of his excellent proposals . |
| 18 | It is interesting that he replied to her question in reverse ! |
| 19 | It 's funny that he flags at the interests of the party of crime . |
| 20 | That 's amazing that you went on holiday alone because surely you would have done much |
| 21 | It is unfortunate that we have in the Australia v New Zealand Second Test seen a player have his nose broken through illegal play , and the player 's union concerned choosing not to use this new law change . |
| 22 | It really is incredible that we talk about sixth form education , the education of our young people between sixteen and nineteen , as a peripheral area . |
| 23 | If the choleretic response to feeding is mediated by a vago-bagal reflex , then it is likely that it relays in the solitary tract nucleus in the brainstem , which is the first relay nucleus for all afferent bisceral sensation . |
| 24 | In saying this , it is likely that he had in mind not merely Lessing 's criterion of beauty , but his fundamental contrast between poetry and the visual arts . |
| 25 | It is likely that he belonged to the friary in Nottingham ( he refers to the rivers Trent and Derwent as if they are familiar to him ) . |
| 26 | It is likely that he listened to the sentimental ballads of the time , and married them to the classicism in which he was trained . |
| 27 | We 're expanding rapidly , and it 's imperative that we function with more efficiency . |
| 28 | Well , of course , it is inevitable that one thinks of it from that angle from the way one has been brought up but actually one ca n't think of anything more barbaric than the Crucifixion and that way of killing somebody . |
| 29 | The unity of the theme is at stake , so that after a period of change it is inevitable that we return to our original discourse . |
| 30 | It is inevitable that we think of children at Christmas but , as Father John McCullagh writes so movingly on this page , our thoughts should not stop there . |