Example sentences of "it is [adv] [adj] that it " in BNC.

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1 It is however evident that it would be necessary to weigh carefully all the costs and benefits before any categoric policy recommendation could be made .
2 On the other hand , it is equally true that it is through participation in the service of others that he comes to realize his true Self and his identity with all that lives .
3 It is similarly arguable that it should be up to the defence to provide a proper foundation of evidence for an assertion that a woman who has been robbed by a man nonetheless subsequently consented to sexual intercourse with him .
4 If a project is a genuine community-based initiative creating jobs and providing a service for the community , and if its management and accounts are in order , it is utterly unacceptable that it should not receive funding on the basis of its alleged political associations .
5 It is wholly appropriate that it should be our final testimony to the qualities that prevail in state education and the resilience and adaptability of ‘ ordinary ’ children . ’
6 On further thought it is soon evident that it is not as easy as that , because the same people are not at church every week , some come more than once on Sunday and will , therefore , be counted twice , and there is an attendance fluctuation depending on the state of the weather and the time of year !
7 It is most likely that it had to do with the extra fasts practised by the Pharisees and in this case the disciples of John the Baptist , who may have been mourning the death of their leader .
8 If it is to be baled or carted it is most important that it is well and evenly dried .
9 It is jolly sad that it has come to this but I am not surprised , ’ she said last night .
10 As for the earliest date of birth , it is theoretically possible that it could be 1855 , since the first recruits to the trade , some of whom were still working in the 1900s , were aged 18 in 1873 .
11 None the less , it is surely true that it will be difficult to reach firm conclusions from comparing experiments which , however similar they may be formally , use quite different subjects , stimuli , and training procedures .
12 It may have been a recurrent nova , and although it is probably unlikely that it will ever come within binocular range , if it reappears at all , there is no harm in looking for it .
13 If a statutory provision is to be introduced , it is clearly desirable that it should also apply where the defendant exploits the victim 's mistake .
14 However , one has to be cautious in drawing such general conclusions , since it is also apparent that it became a practice in the early period ( c. 3000 BC ) to depict animals in human positions .
15 It is also possible that it leads to a change in the Pattern of bequests .
16 It is also clear that it is difficult to draw comparisons between the Western Isles and the developing countries .
17 Moreover , it is also unlikely that it would be intelligible even to another adult .
18 It is just possible that it does exactly the opposite .
19 While it has made no formal application to offer video-on-demand to customers — the official line is that it is merely looking at the technology 's potential — it is already clear that it faces a tough task convincing regulatory bodies that it has the right to do so .
20 With Wexford House situated in what was the heart of Bomber Command during World War II it is very fitting that it will honour in particular the men and women of that Command .
21 As full analysis may take several days to complete it is very important that it be carried out in a thermally regulated laboratory .
22 But if this station youth centre is to continue , and I think personally that it is very important that it does , and that it develops .
23 Mr Smith said : ‘ It is very suspicious that it is only one party 's leaflets that have not gone out at all in large quantities . ’
24 But it is very clear that it is present , though at times its influence waxed and waned .
25 The mine in the gill had been established about 5 years but it is very likely that it would have been an old working re-opened .
26 It takes as fact that employers , judges and Tory legislators can do no wrong , and so it is hardly surprising that it finds nothing to be said in favour of trade unions .
27 It is hardly surprising that it is a poor fit for animals removed from the present by hundreds of millions of years of evolution .
28 It is hardly surprising that it should occasionally wreak vengeance on its executioner .
29 It is hardly surprising that it replaced the old ‘ putting out ’ system , nor that it led displaced domestic workers and artisans to smash machinery in a wave of ‘ Luddite ’ outbreaks .
30 According to Mecdi , Ecezade won Selim 's regard and affection while the latter was governor in Trabzon ; and it is certainly implicit that it was as a result of this affection that Ecezade received the kadiliks of Selanik and Bursa .
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