Example sentences of "it is [adv] [adv] [vb pp] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is rather implausibly said that Christian Doppler himself demonstrated his effect by hiring a brass band to play on an open railway truck as it rushed past his amazed audience . |
| 2 | … In the present case it is not even averred that the defendants knew of the pregnancy of the plaintiff 's mother when they received her as a passenger ; it is merely averred that in fact she was then quick with child , viz. with the plaintiff , to whom she subsequently gave birth . |
| 3 | It is not widely realised that Germans of all political complexions have identified the fate of their country with that of Europe . |
| 4 | It is not widely known that Old FF keeps a diary . |
| 5 | For example , it is not widely known that there were turntables at both Bishop 's Castle and Stretford Bridge in the line 's early years , though they seem to have been little used and the railway gained its reputation for unusual working practices right from the start . |
| 6 | It is not universally accepted that these cross-relationship situations are integral to sexual development . |
| 7 | If we wonder why it is not generally recognised that there are , besides verbal propositions composed of words , mental ones composed of ideas , an explanation is readily available : ‘ it is very difficult to treat of them asunder . |
| 8 | It is not generally realized that he did write on such topics , though it must be admitted that a frontal attack on the factory system was not likely to be poetically successful . |
| 9 | It is not generally recommended that anything else is kept with a Red-tail , as they can be very territorial and aggressive . |
| 10 | It is not generally known that among the sculptured panels at the top of the Library facade , there is one featuring two children fingerspelling at each other the first two letters of the alphabet . |
| 11 | It is not generally known that nearly 90% of the 3,500 or so complaints received yearly are cleared up by the secretariat without the need for disciplinary action . |
| 12 | It is not generally known that there are more than 1,000 applications a week at the Home Office for political asylum from new arrivals . |
| 13 | Perhaps it is not generally known that David Farrington 's research on criminal careers suggests that the single most effective crime prevention policy is nursery education , which is denied to so many children in inner city areas . |
| 14 | It is not generally appreciated that very many settlement sites exhibit earthworks of several periods . |
| 15 | In revisionist histories constructed for apologetic purposes , it is not usually denied that there were conflicts in the past . |
| 16 | It is not therefore assumed that people have a' consciousness ' ( false or otherwise ) or a system or knowledge about the outside world , but only that they have a more or less adequate collection of competences in dealing with particular instances of it . |
| 17 | It is not often recalled that one of the Trust 's earliest acquisitions , in 1909 , was the cottage at Nether Stowey where the poet Coleridge wrote ‘ The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ’ and began his visionary epic ‘ Kubla Khan ’ . |
| 18 | I was grateful to the hon. Gentleman for raising that , because it is not often realised that such claims can be made up to three months before the person enters care , although I am aware that the circumstances do not always allow that . |
| 19 | It is not explicitly stated that the Miller demands to tell his tale out of spite to the Reeve . |
| 20 | Although it is not explicitly stated that this sea-monster was the father of eponymous founder of the Merovingian dynasty , that is clearly the impression which Fredegar intended to give . |
| 21 | However , it is not always recognized that individuality is itself a cultural concept : there can be no private independent real person dissociated from the cultural values which define the society in which the individual lives . |
| 22 | It is not always realized that often a herb will help with digestion generally , — or with the digestion of the particular food with which it is associated . |
| 23 | Sage , rosemary and lavender need no visual description , though it is not always realized that sage has spikes of vividly blue-mauve flowers which last a long time and are highly magnetic to bees . |
| 24 | It is not always realized that the pain of loss is experienced physically as well as mentally . |
| 25 | It is not always realised that by some , perhaps Puritanical , compensatory instinct a true Rococo house enshrines its riotous and self-indulgent interior within a particularly severe exterior masonry of canted bays and minimal decorative devices . |
| 26 | However , in practice although earnings vary , it is not always observed that dividends fall as earnings fall . |
| 27 | It is not always understood that he does not only help her but has frequently to lead her into a movement . |
| 28 | In Italy some development in the south has occurred , though it is of a fragile and unbalanced nature , and it is not seriously suggested that this area is yet capable of self-sustained growth . |
| 29 | The second is the issue of precatory words ( verba precativa ) in setting up trusts , and is more contentious because it is not commonly accepted that it is a post-classical issue at all . |
| 30 | This is fairly well known , but it is not commonly realized that synthetic detergents are affected deleteriously by the hardness of the water , although not to the same extent as soaps . |