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

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1 Perhaps it is indeed learning that there is no escape from the shock — and such learning may be very important to its subsequent behaviour .
2 After all in an age where everyone is becoming more environmentally aware , perhaps it is only fitting that even artists are getting into recycling .
3 This discretion can also be used to justify refusal of leave to apply for judicial review under RSC Ord. 53 ; and so it is sometimes said that the whole judicial review jurisdiction is discretionary , not just the remedies .
4 Thus it is sometimes said that , had Jesus intended that women should be priests in his church , he would have chosen his mother .
5 Thus it is commonly held that services are economic activities whose output is not a physical product .
6 Thus it is often argued that statutes punishing cruelty to animals can only be explained in that way .
7 In the current , probably mistaken assumption that reunification is only a matter of weeks or months away it is often forgotten that a united Germany as such existed for only around 75 years , between 1870 and 1945 , from Bismarck 's ascendancy to Hitler 's descent into suicide and defeat .
8 Similarly it is soon accepted that the ‘ ostrich ’ theory of closing one 's eyes and assuming that thereby either oneself or things in the environment will actually disappear is not tenable .
9 Similarly it is well known that an easy item following a difficult one appears to be more difficult .
10 Whereas by a Transfer/Lease bearing even date herewith the property known as Seedy Towers was vested in the parties hereto as joint tenants for [ an estate in fee simple ] [ [ the residue of ] ] a term of [ 99 years from the ] Now it is hereby declared that the parties hereto hold the said property in trust for themselves [ as joint tenants in equal shares ] [ as tenants in common [ in equal shares ] [ in the proportion of one-third share for A B and two-third shares for C D ] ] Engross in duplicate for both parties to execute both parts , each to hold one part after completion .
11 Now it is frequently said that the development of skilled movement ‘ lags ’ a long way behind that of skilled perception , and in one sense this is certainly true : young babies have excellent visual acuity as revealed by their behavioural discrimination of , and neural responsivity , to gratings and chequerboards — but we do n't see them playing darts !
12 Now it is well known that any linear differential equation of order n has n independent solutions , the most general solution being a linear combination of these .
13 Now it is sometimes argued that the Reform Bill was deliberately framed so as to preclude the threat of a revolution founded on such an alignment , one in which a middle-class bourgeoisie would have provided the leadership and the lower classes the sheer mass , the numbers needed to carry it out ; and shrewdly calculated to concede just so much as was needed to reduce to a manageable scale the gathering political unrest which might have led to just such a convulsion .
14 I wish I could join him in the corridor , but now it is so crammed that there is no room .
15 Assertions can be signalled by writing " I would suggest " , or " I would argue " , but often it is just assumed that whatever you say is your suggestion or argument .
16 Today it is generally stated that a share is a chose in action .
17 Even when this was not the overt purpose , research results have been used to justify particular aspects of women 's subordination : thus even today it is sometimes said that girls do n't become engineers because they lack spatial ability , or that their relative lack of aggression makes them less effective leaders .
18 Today it is commonly held that the Soviet economy is an albatross — an albatross in the form of heavy military outlays , hard currency imports , and a lengthening backlog of consumer demands .
19 Sometimes it is incorrectly assumed that listing patients ' problems precludes inclusion of psychiatric diagnosis .
20 There is no cure for this , but fortunately it is usually found that such processes do not occur in some fraction of photoionization events , so that the observed spectrum contains at least some intensity in an unshifted line , accompanied by various ‘ satellites ’ corresponding to the energy loss processes .
21 Unfortunately it is then suggested that you repeat the calibration each time you use the unit .
22 If a test module exists , then it is also recommended that the TEST-STATUS-ARE field should be filled in .
23 Then it is also objected that utilitarian thinking , which has reached its apotheosis in modern cost benefit analysis , regards all values as commensurable , and therefore thinks of every harm as something which can be compensated for , reaching , it is felt , particularly repellent extremes when the value of a human life is calculated as something to be set against the goods achieved by a motorway or by economy in safety precautions at a factory .
24 There it is also argued that it is from the legislation of emancipation onwards that the tensions and forces making for conflict grow significantly stronger than the cohesive factors sustaining antislavery culture .
25 Indeed it is well known that societies which were very poor , by all later standards , allotted very significant time , energy and resources to the production of what would now be distinguished as art-objects .
26 Thus it is claimed that God is perfectly just , where we are imperfectly so — indeed it is sometimes said that God is ‘ justice ’ or ‘ justice itself ’ .
27 Yet it is normally said that it is a breach of an agent 's duty to act for competing principals .
28 It was obvious that the cause of the accident was totally unrelated to the facilities provided at Lusaka , yet it is internationally agreed that the State in which an accident occurs has the responsibility of instituting and conducting the investigation .
29 Occasionally it is even proposed that these be made legally binding .
30 Certainly it is well established that a man is not guilty of rape of a woman who is too drunk to consent even where it is he who has coaxed her to drink .
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