Example sentences of "that it is [adj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Generally speaking cannons have such a long range that it is pointless moving them about . |
| 2 | With such charm and grace does he distribute his roses among them that it is easy to forgive him for having — alas ! — one rose too few . |
| 3 | Learning from experience is such a fundamental process that it is easy to take it for granted and assume that having experiences and learning from them are synonymous . |
| 4 | That a policy may meet the ideal of justice does not necessarily always mean that it is right to adopt it , if in so doing other fundamental values are sacrificed . |
| 5 | In Ex. 17 ( a ) and ( b ) the layout is so obvious that it is unnecessary to print them in score . |
| 6 | So many things happen in Amsterdam that it is impossible to give you more than a taste of the events for 1992 . |
| 7 | He points out that it is impossible to stop it completely : ‘ There is no way to protect the electronic pulse . |
| 8 | Although throughout Marx 's and Engels 's work reference to property is so extensive that it is impossible to take them all into account , a general pattern emerges . |
| 9 | Standards such as those on depreciation and current cost accounting are so different from current practice that it is impossible to rationalize them . |
| 10 | There are so many tribes of Orcs that it is impossible to count them , especially as they are constantly breaking up and reforming under the leadership of new ambitious Orc Warlords . |
| 11 | From a subjective viewpoint , these differences do not seem to depend on linguistically-represented concepts , and moreover are of such a general character that it is implausible to ascribe them uniquely to human perceivers . |
| 12 | If Pollard 's architecture is so disposable and flippant that it is odd to call him a ‘ patron ’ , Palumbo 's patronage is so single-minded that he can hardly be called a developer . |
| 13 | Parents need time to understand how their problems affect their children and that it is possible to help them with management issues if they work together and support each other . |
| 14 | Nigel Mansell is one example , though Mansell 's metabolism , once released from the horrors of his competitive life , seems to revert to such extreme placidity that it is possible to picture him living out his days as a happy family man and manager of his own investments . |
| 15 | Held in the way described , it can not move its front legs and that means that it is unable to scratch you even should it want to . |
| 16 | The bloodhound 's nose may be so overwhelmed by the scent of fresh skin cells that it is unable to follow them . |
| 17 | Her end product may be a highly decorative seat where once a junk shop kitchen chair stood , but it is also functional art , and the fact that it is three-dimensional gives it an element of involvement that is often missing from a flat canvas . |
| 18 | But if we ( rightly ) say that God has to be unchangeable we do not mean he is static any more than if we say ‘ The Equator ’ is not the name of a poison we mean that it is safe to eat it . |
| 19 | There is , indeed , so much vigour in the playing that it is hard to credit him with the age the dictionaries seem to agree on ( he was six months short of his 75th birthday when he made these recordings ) . |
| 20 | Third , the Acropolis of Athens — a feature which , like some other masterpieces of nature or art , is so familiar that it is hard to see it with fresh eyes — was an inevitable centre for the rynoikism or concentration of Attica from a plurality of villages into a mia polis , ‘ one city ’ . |
| 21 | Most of the federal judges appointed by President Reagan are so convinced the market has its own fail-safe mechanisms for everything that it is hard to imagine them upholding a challenge to any merger . |
| 22 | It professes to offer a rational decision procedure for testing the morality of actions , possessed of some kind of objective status , which means that it is irrational to reject it . |
| 23 | When you first introduce the litter tray , place the puppy here if you suspect that it is likely to use it . |
| 24 | The two sets are so interwoven that it is difficult to claim they are separate . |
| 25 | As a result , fossil bone accumulations are usually so much more fragmentary than undamaged pellet assemblages that it is difficult to compare them . |
| 26 | Of course , it may be objected that the very notion of an ‘ art-object ’ is a cultural construct peculiar to certain traditions , but that notion is so deeply embedded in Western culture that it is difficult to dismiss it . |
| 27 | The interconnection of these three concepts in Gandhi 's thought is such that it is difficult to treat them separately . |
| 28 | The move took place in early December and we settled in so quickly that it is difficult to believe we have been in our new offices for less than a year . |
| 29 | Some published material is hand written and of such high quality that it is difficult to distinguish it from a typeset score . |
| 30 | They are so closely interrelated that it is difficult to separate them . |