Example sentences of "[subord] it [is] [verb] that there " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further procedures which may be undertaken in cases where more detailed information is needed or where it is suspected that there may be serious problems with vision include the visually evaluated response ( VER ) and the electroretinogram ( ERG ) . |
| 2 | Detention of a whole class may technically still be lawful , although it is becoming increasingly likely that a judge would have doubts about the reasonableness of this course of action where it is known that there may only be one or two culprits . |
| 3 | There is no crew as such because the Doom Diver effectively launches himself , although it is assumed that there are a number of Doom Divers ready and willing to step forward and be catapulted into the air . |
| 4 | A coherent strategy for retrospective conversion has not been attempted for the UK ( although it is known that there are stirrings of such an initiative in a European context , involving the British Library ) and lack of institutional funding for such unglamorous activities has ensured at best a piecemeal approach . |
| 5 | Once it is conceded that there are grounds other than eugenic ones for a separate offence of incest , then the question which inevitably arises is why the crime should be confined to sexual intercourse . |
| 6 | ( The discrepancy could perhaps be explained if it is assumed that there is also a weak preference to continue with the first-named character . ) |
| 7 | Even if it is accepted that there is now overwhelming evidence that we possess a body clock , it will appear to have little use . |
| 8 | If it is accepted that there is a role , though admittedly limited , for managing gall stone disease by preservation of the gall bladder , should the rotary lithotrite be the method of choice ? |
| 9 | If it is maintained that there has to be an independent criterion of truth , then the difficulty we are confronted with is determining precisely what that criterion might be . |
| 10 | If it is agreed that there is to be no magic , the teacher and the children must stick by their decision . |
| 11 | If it is thought that there are some similarities between country A and country B in the market for microcomputers or car telephones or videocameras etc , a multinational company can analyse its market expenditures within both countries , comparing the effectiveness of these expenditures in each country . |
| 12 | If it is thought that there may be infection in the bladder ( cystitis ) or kidneys , a special sample needs to be taken for laboratory analysis . |
| 13 | Medical , educational and social service provision becomes a low priority if it is considered that there is only a marginal return on such investment . |
| 14 | If it is considered that there was no implied threat in this situation , will the defendant nevertheless be guilty ? |
| 15 | If it is known that there will be no other worker present , staff must go accompanied to mental health assessments ; the removal of children , child abuse investigations or any situation where there is a likelihood of violence . |
| 16 | If it is supposed that there is a want of definiteness about the idea of something 's " occurring within consciousness " , we can as well speak of anything whatever of which there is a logical possibility that an individual can discriminate it in his or her or its consciousness . |
| 17 | Controversial figures in public life , such as Winston Churchill , Richard Nixon , Indira Gandhi , Martin Luther King , T. S. Eliot and many others , will probably attract biographers for years to come because it is felt that there are still new things to be said about them , new perspectives from which their work can be seen , and new interpretations of politics or the arts in which their contributions should be judged . |
| 18 | However , since it is proposed that there may be an association between pain and tissue damage , let us examine the facts . |
| 19 | One escapes the old analogy only by submitting to another ; the role of logic , even when it is suspected that there is something wrong at the foundations of the argument , is confined to applying and criticizing concepts thrown up by the spontaneous process of analogizing . |
| 20 | This is particularly likely to provoke hostility when it is believed that there is an element of wilfulness in the old person 's responses . |
| 21 | When it is remembered that there are about 5,000 secondary schools the number opting out is very small . |