Example sentences of "it is [adv] [adj] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is pretty clear that Labour believes that it can not get a majority for those policies domestically and therefore wants to achieve a situation in which they can be imposed on us by a majority of continental countries . |
| 2 | Mind you , it is rather surprising that McDonald , a top session man turned star performer , has not established himself as a big noise in Europe . |
| 3 | Erm again I , I ca n't help but s er er getting slightly digressed but it is rather interesting that John Major this year decided to go for a general election before the local elections . |
| 4 | ‘ It is rather regrettable that candidates have to use their energy on this sort of thing , instead of working to get elected . ’ |
| 5 | It is however apparent that differences in comprehensive income measured in this way do not necessarily correspond to differences in ability to pay , defined in terms of opportunity sets . |
| 6 | It is however significant that blood relationship and peculiarities of speech , the criteria noted in the last paragraph , were both mentioned . |
| 7 | But it is equally necessary that humans engage in a ceaseless and violent struggle with beings which attack from outside the bounds of society . |
| 8 | Miron 's tentative conclusion is that older staff may become less concerned about teaching as they develop other priorities ; but it is equally possible that students are responding more similarly , and more favourably , to lecturers who are more like themselves . |
| 9 | It is equally clear that Z fails in Zn whenever n is composite . |
| 10 | Of course , it is feasible that the Greeks were more sharp-sighted than we are , and certainly their skies were clearer ; but it is equally likely that Merope has dimmed a fair deal over the past few thousand years — in other words , that it is a variable star with a period of at least several thousand years . |
| 11 | It is equally likely that Russia will need ECGD or comparative support in the months and years ahead , not just from this country but from others . |
| 12 | It is equally true that firms and households are less likely to operate efficiently in a period of inflation , for a number of reasons . |
| 13 | It is equally true that Lord Diplock has stated that the normal presumption is that Parliament intends questions of law to be decided by the courts , but his Lordship did not state that this was an irrebuttable presumption . |
| 14 | If we were to express the interrelation of identity and participation in classical Hindu terminology we might say that while knowledge , jñāna , leads to action , karma , it is equally true that action leads to knowledge . |
| 15 | It is equally true that Opposition Members seem obsessed with pursuing the business community with prosecutions and they frequently question me about that across a wide range of Government policies — something which I regret , but with which I have become rather familiar . |
| 16 | It is equally important that appointments to the national boards include a registered nurse and a practising health visitor and midwife . |
| 17 | It is practically certain that Choerilus had in mind the eastern Ethiopians , and that he combined several passages from Homer ( Odys. 5.283 ) and from Herodotus ( 7.79 ; 7.89 and possibly 3.8 ) to form his fanciful picture . |
| 18 | It is likewise conceivable that TFIIA is incorporated into the transcription complex by protein-protein interactions involving TBP and/or the established pol III transcription factors IIIA , IIIB and IIIC . |
| 19 | In these days of broadening the base of those who are authorised to undertake conveyancing , it is fundamentally important that solicitors should follow the Law Society 's guide on how to deal with unadmitted persons . |
| 20 | If fairness is to be the criterion , does the Minister agree that it is fundamentally unjust that people should be expected to pay twice — that people should be surcharged in cities such as Liverpool , where last year the cost was £71 per head , after people had already paid their bills ? |
| 21 | For it is sadly true that misuse of a desktop publishing system can actually reduce the impact of your material rather than enhance it . |
| 22 | I feel it is wholly wrong that abortion could be seen as a means of contraception because it not only wastes the money of the N.H.S. but I think that abortions should only be considered in certain cases . |
| 23 | Nonetheless , it is slightly surprising that staff responding seemed to be generally not dissatisfied with their situation . |
| 24 | In the first place , we can not say that the coins recovered from a site , whether by excavation or otherwise , represent a cross-section of coins in use on that site , even though it is generally true that coins are dropped in proportion to the amount of times they are handled or passed from hand to hand . |
| 25 | It is generally true that people are in the greatest difficulties when the external world confirms their worst fears about themselves , and are at their happiest when it confirms their best fantasies . |
| 26 | Efforts made by communist states to reduce inequalities vary , but it is generally true that bureaucrats are better off than those they rule . |
| 27 | It is generally true that PageMaker users find out about some 80–90% of the program 's capabilities just by playing around . |
| 28 | It is bitterly ironic that Somalia , the only nation in Africa with one ethnic group , one culture , one language and one religion should be the most deeply divided of the continent 's 52 fractious countries . |
| 29 | However , while it is doubtless true that men pay an emotional price for the power they have , this should not blind us to the power and privileges from which they do benefit . |
| 30 | The latter two sources are of uncertain reliability , while the Encomiast 's suppression of Emma 's previous marriage to Æthelred makes one suspicious of his entire treatment of the affair , but it is inherently likely that negotiations did take place , for Cnut was shrewd enough to appreciate that gaining Emma 's assistance against her sons without Richard 's goodwill would have been to leave the job half done . |