Example sentences of "[v-ing] that it [is] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 In either case the officer must have reasonable grounds for believing that it is necessary to seize the evidence there and then to prevent it being destroyed .
2 Here he asks them , ‘ Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed ? ’ implying that it is possible to believe without receiving the Holy Spirit .
3 It will ban the sale of single cigarettes , tighten control on the use of vending machines and make mandatory the display of notices stating that it is illegal to sell cigarettes to under 16s .
4 The ban takes the form of a circular stating that it is illegal to sell , purchase , import , export or even carry tiger bones or rhino horns and that they may not be used in medicines .
5 There are such obvious advantages in having access through video to examples of teaching that it is easy to forget that there can also be problems .
6 The other key aspects of teaching that it is useful to record are the level of demand that is placed on the pupil(s) at each stage and the amount of guidance that the teacher provides .
7 And then the other day you were saying that it 's nice to have someone drop in
8 Whilst illustrating that it is difficult to separate the recognition of a state from the recognition of a government of that state , this definition also shows that part of the function of a government of a state is to have relations with other states .
9 Assuming that it is possible to collect information about estimated and subjective risk from subjects , it will clearly be of interest to see to what extent other variables are related to these measures .
10 Knowing that it is possible to hedge by entering into a forward contract therefore seems to be the thing to do , in conjunction with the proposal just outlined .
11 It also gives me a patriotic thrill , knowing that it 's British designed and built .
12 He effortlessly produced a bavarois whips and showing that it is possible to make meringue from egg white when some yolk is present .
13 We must combat it with the weapons of faith by showing that it is possible to have a balanced , intelligent faith which offers hope and healing .
14 The government is committed to closing the plant by the end of this year , but the local nuclear lobby is pressing for the deadline to be extended , arguing that it is dangerous to close a reactor down quickly .
15 There is , indeed , so much vigour in the playing that it is hard to credit him with the age the dictionaries seem to agree on ( he was six months short of his 75th birthday when he made these recordings ) .
16 Is my right hon. Friend aware that many people inside and outside the House , while recognising that it is important to spend two days debating the future of Europe , wonder why the House is not debating , even for a short time , the fact that a war is raging in a European country — Yugoslavia ?
17 It is , however , worth stressing that it is possible to revert to a ‘ pure ’ law degree until the end of second year .
18 Second a number of different methods for using rewards and punishers were described , stressing that it is rare to find interventions using only one or the other .
19 A range of possible reasons has been put forward , stressing that it is important to get the right degree of capital intensity for the business and that many businesses may simply be misled by current profitability and push investment too far .
20 In reply , the restructuring school , while agreeing that it is important to distinguish long-term and short-term changes , might argue that within any long-term decentralization there have been periods of crucial importance .
21 The risk is minimal , but such is the attraction of this form of carving that it is easy to get carried away , and its effectiveness does make eye and respiratory protection essential .
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