Example sentences of "it [is] [adv] [adj] that a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It seems unlikely that a Tibetan would have got up there to take them , but then it could be argued that it 's equally unlikely that a yeti was the culprit . |
| 2 | I must say it 's pretty funny that a chap like him ends up playing a Jesuit priest having doctrinal disputes in the rain forest . |
| 3 | It 's also true that a company is judged by the people it keeps . |
| 4 | It 's quite remarkable that a mere three years after liquifying helium he , he erm had got this tremendously important erm effect . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's terribly important that a proper alternative market for the smaller and medium-sized business is now found . |
| 6 | Rumours have been circulating that they wanted to hold it to tie in with Aliens 3 , although with that still way off in the future , it 's more likely that a full-scale theatrical release of The Special Edition is planned for the distant future . |
| 7 | It 's very rare that a swimming pool do actually |
| 8 | Because as I 've said to you before , I think it 's very important that a new settlement is provided somewhere within Greater York . |
| 9 | And we are moving into an age , I think it must be recognised , where some of the traditional jobs for girls , for example , secretaries , shops , things of this sort , are actually being decreased because of the technological revolution , so bearing in mind that something like seventy per cent of women are actually in employment , it 's very important that a girl , at the age of thirteen or fourteen , does not decide to cut herself off from the possibility of employment in these technological , engineering fields . |
| 10 | I think it 's fairly obvious that a lot more suffering goes on in the name of love than the little happiness you can squeeze out of it . |
| 11 | It is however true that a depreciation in share values will be of concern to management , because of possible repercussions in the market for corporate control . |
| 12 | It might , of course , mean that that particular person will readily be labelled ‘ deviant ’ , but it is equally possible that an individual could fully appreciate the attitude(s) of the generalized other and yet choose not to act within its framework . |
| 13 | If we accept that mistakes in sentencing can be made and accept that sentencing is a matter of considerable interest , importance and relevance to society , and accept that the prosecution represents society , then it is simply monstrous that an appeal does not lie at its hands . |
| 14 | Hence it must be obvious that the cure of those diseases must depend on the same principles as the former : from which it is likewise evident that a regular education is necessary to the Farrier ’ . |
| 15 | It is particularly ironic that a ruler in the age of Machiavelli should have caused such obsession with personal morality , or immorality — not least because her reign produced the first politician in the British Isles , her secretary William Maitland of Lethington , who was described as ‘ machiavellian ’ . |
| 16 | Although such answers may not seem entirely convincing today , principally because of the insights which Darwin and Freud have given us into ourselves , it is nevertheless true that an approach to the problem based on evolution and psychoanalysis would yield analogous , if different , answers . |
| 17 | It is most unlikely that a mother or father looking at a new-born child will be saying : — ‘ We have here a potential villain , who could , in a few years time be getting a living by robbery , violence or some other criminal activity . |
| 18 | Where the defendant has innocently made a substantial investment on the basis of information innocently acquired it is most unlikely that an injunction would be granted to restrain him from making use of that information ( although the fact that an injunction might drive the defendant into liquidation is not relevant if the tests in American Cyanamid Co v Ethicon [ 1975 ] AC 396 have been satisfied ; per May LJ in Bullivant ( Roger ) Ltd v Ellis [ 1987 ] ICR 464 ) . |
| 19 | Thus it is critically important that an antiviral agent does not become incorporated into the host 's nucleic acids , or those works too could be jammed , with devastating consequences . |
| 20 | At the present stage of scientific development , it is surely sad that a healthy human fetus should be destroyed merely because it is not of the sex the mother prefers . |
| 21 | It is even possible that a few councillors were sufficiently worried by the prospect for them to advocate a protectorate as a way of blocking Woodville pretensions . |
| 22 | It is even possible that a few councillors were sufficiently worried by the prospect for them to advocate a protectorate as a way of blocking Woodville pretensions . |
| 23 | In a number of countries including France and Italy , it is also apparent that a good deal of prominence attaches to the central union federations . |
| 24 | It is also intriguing that an increase in protease activity has been detected in perfusates from the dentate gyrus following potentiation , raising the possibility that cleavage of proteins with extracellular domains , such as neural cell adhesion molecules ( NCAMs ) , may contribute to synaptic remodelling in LTP . |
| 25 | It is also curious that an interpreter who normally respected the printed score should have edited Manfred so thoroughly . |
| 26 | It is arguable that this is a practical necessity given limited time and resources , but it is also arguable that a discontinuity in teaching methods and learning experiences is likely to result . |
| 27 | We envisage that the path would be mainly used for recreational cycling at weekends and by touring cyclists during the season , but it is also possible that a few commuters from Kirkliston would use it during the week . |
| 28 | We envisage that the path would be mainly used for recreational cycling at weekends and by touring cyclists during the season , but it is also possible that a few commuters from Kirkliston would use it during the week . |
| 29 | ‘ It is also possible that an assignment you accept turns out to be different from what you had been led to believe . |
| 30 | It is also possible that an increased number of HAPCs correlates with the increased number of bowel movements commonly found in infants and children . |