Example sentences of "it is [adv] [verb] that [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It is generally assumed that hypergastrinaemia predisposes to the development of gastric carcinoids through progressive hyperplastic changes of fundic endocrine cells .
2 However , it is generally assumed that rug-weaving was brought into China , probably from Turkestan or Mongolia , some time before the reign of Emperor K'ang Hsi ( 1661–1722 ) , a noted patron of the arts who may well have encouraged its assimilation into Chinese artistic life .
3 It is generally accepted that control systems have to be organized in parallel to the activities that they are intended to monitor .
4 And it is generally felt that traffic will get heavier when the new A3 Petersfield bypass opens .
5 In the short run it is generally argued that tax cuts will simply stimulate aggregate demand and , with aggregate supply largely unaffected , will be inflationary .
6 It is generally believed that garlic and tea-tree essences are the most powerful anti-viral oils .
7 It is generally believed that persecution by man was the main reason for the extinction of this magnificent bird as a breeding species in Shetland .
8 However , it is generally recognized that gender inequality in education is in many respects different from inequality of class .
9 The first point is that it is generally recognized that ritual tends to increase , intensify and shift in focus at times of social crisis .
10 Today , it is plainly recognized that stress is heart-related .
11 Sometimes it is incorrectly assumed that listing patients ' problems precludes inclusion of psychiatric diagnosis .
12 These days , it is widely assumed that monitoring of firms by close , caring banks is a better way to run things than the arms-length institutional ownership of America and Britain .
13 It is widely assumed that restoration of intestinal continuity inevitably results in a better quality of life for the patient , but that is not necessarily the case .
14 Nevertheless , it is widely recognized that exchange rate adjustments within the EMS will only become less frequent if the economic performance and the economic policies of member countries are converging and consistent .
15 In work organisations it is universally believed that cooperation is a Good Thing , and achieve greater productivity than lack of cooperation .
16 In the field of cancer therapy it is well known that irradiation can cause tumours and yet they can also be treated by radiation and many of the drugs used in chemotherapy for tumours can also cause tumours .
17 It is well known that filling of the gland with acinar should be avoided .
18 It is well known that survey data is subject to a variety of sources of measurement error such as misreporting , recall errors and telescoping of past incidents to give a false historical record .
19 It is well known that HARPY avoided the combinatorics of breadth-first search by an advantageous structuring of the search space .
20 It is well known that part of the price of IMF finance was curtailment of the government 's public expenditure plans , which was to increase the tension between the party leadership on the one hand and the left and the unions ( particularly in the public sector ) on the other , over subsequent years .
21 3 Of course New Yorks is not the capital of the USA. 4 It is well known that Maths is harder than English .
22 It is well known that dissatisfaction occurs when actuality falls short of expectation .
23 For example it is well known that asthma and eczema are linked but what is frequently overlooked is the way that a person 's asthma can be bad at a time when their eczema is quiet and their eczema can be its worst when the asthma is quiet .
24 It is well known that heat can be used to kill malignant cells but this approach can not normally be used where the tumour cells are deeply seated in the body , as can be the case in bone tumours .
25 On the financial side , it is well known that airline pilots are amongst the best paid professions and until the redundancies of the early 1980s changed the picture somewhat remarkably few of their number were prepared to accept a civil servant 's salary after having enjoyed a very good standard of living .
26 While it is well known that machair may extend as much as 2 km inland in South Uist , less well known is the altitude to which blown shell sand exerts an ecological influence : the dunes at Luskentyre Banks ( NG 0699 ) are up to 35 m high , while the presence of large amounts of wind-blown shell fragments is evident from the presence of charophytes in lochs on Tairaval ( NB 1135 ) ( Angus , unpublished NCC report ) and at Mangersta ( NB 0131 ) ( Biagi et al 1985 ) , both sites being more than 50 m above sea level .
27 It is also hoped that No 506 will be in use during the day as one of the rostered locos .
28 It is also said that Hinduism believes in an impersonal rather than a personal Deity .
29 It is also argued that drug pressure could not be the origin of resistance because halofantrine was not used prophylactically and has a shorter half-life than chloroquine or mefloquine .
30 It is also believed that activity in the alpha band of the EEG signifies a low level of cerebral activation .
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