Example sentences of "it is [adv] [adj] that a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is however true that a depreciation in share values will be of concern to management , because of possible repercussions in the market for corporate control . |
| 2 | It might , of course , mean that that particular person will readily be labelled ‘ deviant ’ , but it is equally possible that an individual could fully appreciate the attitude(s) of the generalized other and yet choose not to act within its framework . |
| 3 | If we accept that mistakes in sentencing can be made and accept that sentencing is a matter of considerable interest , importance and relevance to society , and accept that the prosecution represents society , then it is simply monstrous that an appeal does not lie at its hands . |
| 4 | 1.6 It is not necessary that an item qualifying an E should be a P. This is not the case in our next example , ( 16 ) . |
| 5 | It is not certain that a majority of the parliament will follow him when a free vote is held on the question of where Germany 's government should be . |
| 6 | For iron it is about 1000 K. This is a plausible explanation of the Mercurian field , though it is not certain that a slowly cooling core would end up with an appreciable magnetic dipole moment . |
| 7 | It is not certain that a schema which is valid for the classification of physical entities will be capable of application to epistemological studies . |
| 8 | It is not believable that a Protestant residential street would have been selected nor is there any instance of such an occurrence on any other occasion . |
| 9 | Of course , taking account of the value of a house and its contents and personal savings and investments it is not surprising that a great many people have estates that exceed the inheritance tax threshold . |
| 10 | With that kind of price tag , it is not surprising that a long string of American entrepreneurs — including even Thomas Jefferson — have tried to find a way to cultivate various Morchella species . |
| 11 | It is not surprising that a high proportion of A level candidates came and come from such schools . |
| 12 | It is not surprising that a Nobel prize was awarded in 1952 to Waksman , though there are many reasons why other contributors were also worthy of honour . |
| 13 | It is not surprising that a few years later , in 1911 , Grahame was to introduce ‘ Mouse ’ to his beloved Cornwall — and especially Fowey — before the boy began school . |
| 14 | Those were the days when a farm worker earned about thirty shillings a week , and three pounds was quite a good wage , so it is not surprising that a Saturday afternoon at the cinema cost tuppence , and four different sweets could be bought for a penny . |
| 15 | With only the staff at Bloomsbury House and their regional offices as the long stop for advice and modest practical assistance , it is not surprising that a high proportion of Kindertransporte veterans , possibly as many as one in ten , found themselves up against the police or other bastions of social authority . |
| 16 | With all these advantages it is not surprising that a great deal of effort and resources go into the provision of simulators for high technology industry . |
| 17 | Given the original form of recruitment of black workers and the operation of racial discrimination it is not surprising that a much larger proportion of black employees are manual workers than the white population in Britain . |
| 18 | It is not surprising that a leading official of the NUT should dismiss the White Paper which collates the present government 's curricular initiatives as ‘ a dose of centralist rhetoric ’ . |
| 19 | AFTER so much disappointment , it is not surprising that a crumb of comfort has driven gold bugs half-crazy with glee . |
| 20 | It is not surprising that a wide range of patterns can develop , from the complex layering of Rhum troctolites to the regularity in parts of the Skaergaard intrusion . |
| 21 | It is not surprising that a high proportion of patients burst into tears as soon as the physiotherapist begins work . |
| 22 | It is not surprising that a PC which can help to design a ship , a skyscraper or an electronic circuit has to be one of the most powerful available . |
| 23 | In an age of secularization , in which religious myths have been ruthlessly unmasked and in which parricidal revolt and protest has been directed as much against God as against other father-surrogates , it is not surprising that a regressive current of feeling , comparable to that which sustained the Neolithic goddess-cults , no longer finds an obvious religious expression . |
| 24 | It is not surprising that a history of milk intolerance was seldom obtained in patients with lactose malabsorption , although dietary intake of diary products was reduced . |
| 25 | Indeed , it is not surprising that a member of this particular grammatical category should have been brought into play here . |
| 26 | If the poetry of the early part of the eighteenth century is already grappling with the problems associated with a realistic treatment of agricultural labour , it is not surprising that an agricultural labourer should eventually make an impact as a poet . |
| 27 | Moreover , when the dominant approach to problems of behaviour is to remove the pupils it is not surprising that an increasing proportion of the school population is drawn into that model . |
| 28 | It is not surprising that an enterprising company such as JCI , would plan to diversify into other mining activities , and in the 1920's , the company acquired control of a number of collieries . |
| 29 | Being a discursive subject and speaking are a matter of having access to a mirror , and it is not insignificant that a male subject is initially in control of the retrovizor . |
| 30 | For if the general shape , the location , and the motion of objects can be computed in a low-level , autonomous fashion , then it is not impossible that a kingfisher may possess comparable perceptual mechanisms capable of computing the depth of a fish in water . |