Example sentences of "[coord] it is [adv] [adj] [that] " in BNC.
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1 | He is once referred to by the chronicler , Matthew Paris [ q.v. ] , as ‘ Master Longespee ’ and it is thus possible that he was a son of William Longespée , third Earl of Salisbury ( died 1226 , q.v. ) , who was Henry III 's uncle . |
2 | The theoretical territory attached to this hillfort , as suggested by Ian Burrow , is very similar to the land defined in the seventh-century charter , and it is thus possible that the estate of the hillfort persisted throughout the Roman period to emerge as a land unit belonging to Glastonbury Abbey until the sixteenth century . |
3 | Nevertheless , with all their drawbacks , panels are interesting ways of collecting information and it is rather surprising that they have not been used more in academic research where ideas rather than pin-point accuracy of measurement may be the desired goal . |
4 | He is horrified by the contemptuous way in which fat Establishment cats speak of workers and it is particularly unfortunate that his enthusiastic support for co-operatives should have foundered because he backed dodgy horses . |
5 | The sets of annals known collectively as the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle are major texts for pre-Conquest history , and it is particularly unfortunate that their entries for Cnut 's reign are both uninformative and ( after 1023 ) increasingly sparse . |
6 | The problem in considering the future of fertilizers is rather to consider the changes which will occur in world agriculture , and it is already apparent that they will be many . |
7 | Physiotherapist Bernard Thomas tells Lloyd to touch his nose , and it is soon clear that his vision is impaired . |
8 | Diana , it seems , has no critics within the portals of San L 's , as the Sloanes call it , and it is little wonder that Prince Charles has never been seen descending its stairs . |
9 | But centralised provision of materials reduces the opportunity for ‘ contextualisation ’ — and it is little wonder that many board members perceived the published training material and the area sessions as lacking in relevance . |
10 | One very urgent and necessary reason for our absence is that next Friday my opera is being performed again and it is most essential that I should be present . |
11 | And we know that Gundulph built here the first buildings which became known as the Bishops ' Palace , and it is most probable that when building his Manor House he rebuilt the church . |
12 | These two buildings were , therefore , clearly under military control , and it is most likely that they represented a collection centre for the annona militaris , a tax thought to have been introduced by Severus . |
13 | During the drying process particle aggregation may occur and it is most important that sieve residues should be checked , using a hand lens where necessary , to detect the presence of aggregates which form clusters considerably larger than the original single component grains . |
14 | No academic libraries since the time of the Travelling Workshops Experiment have successfully applied the strategy and it is most unlikely that illuminative evaluation ‘ in toto ’ will ever get the opportunity to prove itself in academic user education , largely because of the lack of time to pursue it in full . |
15 | There was no adequate trading base for this financial performance , and it is most unlikely that the promoters ever thought that there was . |
16 | The police have been criticised for their low prosecution record in rape cases and it is most unlikely that domestic rape would have been dealt with more enthusiastically . |
17 | As far as any remedy in damages is concerned this point will not be of any significance and it is most unlikely that any action would be brought in a business secrets case unless some damage or advantage to a competitor had occurred or was thought likely to do so . |
18 | Such interaction between traditions is of special interest and it is most unfortunate that so little is known about the hoard 's original find spot . |
19 | All rabbits carry fleas and it is most significant that does , as the result of being in recent contact with a nest , always appear to have the greatest infestations . |
20 | A version of it may have heartened the Normans in 1066 ; and it is even possible that the earliest surviving version was composed in Normandy . |
21 | The Library is restricted in its efforts in this direction by the traditional layout of the present Exhibition Room , and it is clearly desirable that , when resources permit , the Library should contrive to have a new Exhibition Room adapted to the requirements of modern exhibitions . |
22 | This tale is fiction , but it shows the kind of success story which a twelfth-century Englishman could expect his audience to swallow ; and it is probably significant that he set the story in Italy , the land of merchants and wealth . |
23 | It is clear that individuals in the ‘ higher ’ occupational groupings are far more likely to have high incomes and to be owner-occupiers than those in the lower groupings , and it is also clear that children of higher category parents have a much better chance of extending their education beyond the minimum , and of qualifying for higher status occupations themselves ( Goldthorpe , 1980 , Halsey et al . , |
24 | Answer guide : In this case the uncertainty is mitigated as the life is clearly known and it is also clear that the loss in utility relates to time . |
25 | Moreover , it seems very likely that Anselm was referring to the search for relics conducted in secret by Osbern and Eadmer ; and it is also likely that Anselm had heard of the search from Eadmer himself . |
26 | It is true , for instance , that God is good ; and it is also true that Julius Caesar invaded Britain . |
27 | Now it is totally true , that the start of that O C S contract was a disaster , and it is also true that several months on , the pay of the cleaners is still not being correctly done , and concerns are being raised in the governors , it 's a four years contract , being an L M S contract , and under G M S they are submitting one year contracts . |
28 | And it is just possible that Western ideas in psychiatry could be incorporated into a relativity model . |
29 | However homoeopathy is very successful in veterinary practice and it is theoretically possible that suitable animal tests could be devised for the study of at least some homoeopathic remedies . |
30 | They certainly performed the other functions of the chapel of the contemporary kings of Germany ; and it is doubtless significant that some of them were of German origin . |