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

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1 It is lamentable that few butchers have the storage or the cash to put away half a hundredweight of potential turnover , watch it shrink by ten to fifteen per cent and charge the prices needed to make it all worthwhile .
2 Although there is a small case of sketches juxtaposed with finished products ( a Richard Meier key ring and a Hans Hollein wristwatch ) , it is frustrating that larger objects in the Met 's collection ( from an 1879 Tiffany mixed-metal salver and a Woodstock cabinet made at Byrdcliffe Colony around 1904 , to 1988 chairs by Emilio Ambasz and George Ranalli and a Morison Cousins prototype ‘ Soup to Nuts ’ bowl for Tupperware ) could not have also been included beside their preparatory drawings .
3 It is appropriate that future system development should exploit this constraint .
4 At a time when HMI and others are prescribing more consultative and collaborative ways of working in primary schools it is appropriate that some research takes place into the kinds of social and communication skills required of teachers .
5 Since some critics have made a link between Cockrill and Peter Lanyon , it is appropriate that this exhibition tours to the Newlyn Art Gallery in June and will be seen at Exeter 's Spacex Gallery and at the Plymouth Art Centre .
6 Considerable interest is now centred upon these problems and it is appropriate that physical geographers should be very aware of the work being undertaken and the work remaining .
7 Hence it is appropriate that local councils are dependent on central funds .
8 Having reviewed the matter , taking the above into consideration , we write formally to withdraw our Appeal , as whilst we consider that it is appropriate that further development should take place in the village , on this occasion we defer to local feeling .
9 And it is good that other agencies are being involved . ’
10 It is good that this union has taken the trouble to prepare this report with so much E C legislation in the pipeline .
11 It is undeniable that large-scale production can be technically more efficient , and so following an analysis detailed by Williamson ( 1968 ) we need to consider how the previous result is affected if , after monopolisation , production takes place with lower costs .
12 While it is undeniable that that system has had a dramatic effect of the development of the market it is incorrect to assume that it is the only one which is influencing it .
13 Whatever the basis for these suspicions , it is undeniable that close connections between the mining companies and some prominent politicians were to raise grave doubts about the legitimacy of state actions in relation to mining .
14 It is undeniable that most readers find amusement to be part of their experience of these texts .
15 It is the simplest and most obvious layout , but there are , of course , other patterns — such as the radial pattern of so many modern housing estates — and it is odd that these others should not have been tried out until within our own time .
16 It is probable that neither version of Doctor Faustus represents the play as originally written by Marlowe .
17 It is probable that many factors are involved in the incidence , and that these vary among populations .
18 While the woman has no natural way of eliminating the infection , it is probable that many men carry the infection in the urethra for a matter of a few days only , after which the flushing action of passing urine may eliminate the organisms .
19 It is probable that many patients are treated privately and so these cases are not notified and also that some patients may come to England for diagnosis and treatment .
20 If , conversely , one used educational and type-of-occupation criteria to classify individuals ( and these are highly relevant to the question of how standard a speaker 's language is ) , it is probable that many wives , especially those of working-class men , would come out above their husbands .
21 It considers that early implementation-would not add greatly to the costs of preparation of financial statements and that it is probable that such costs would be exceeded by the benefits to users .
22 It is probable that homologous cross-veins do not exist in many orders but their positions in some cases are so constant that analogies , if not homologies , can be traced and similar names are applicable .
23 It is probable that Minoan citizens offered real robes to the temple for this purpose : some may have been woven in the temple itself , given that loom-weights were found in the cellars of the East Wing of the Labyrinth .
24 Bacterial synthesis of protein from industrial residues or organic wastes such as wood pulp is under investigation and it is probable that viable processes will be developed .
25 It is probable that current developments in IT will solve many of our present and future problems in ways which we can not foresee .
26 Over the period between 1872 and 1905 it is probable that increased facilities for reporting and prosecuting cattle theft resulted in a gradual increase in the proportion of crimes which were reported .
27 However , it is probable that varying degrees of impairment of peripheral uptake of triglyceride interact with enhanced , normal or decreased secretion of VLDL to produce the wide range of lipid levels observed in untreated diabetes .
28 If such high concentration mucosal production does occur , it is probable that specific treatment to reduce TNF α production will be of clinical benefit , and it is therefore important that the extent of local production is assessed more directly .
29 If more than one rendering of ‘ truth ’ is claimed to survive , then it is probable that real truth is absent entirely .
30 It is probable that these changes in signal represent areas of necrosis , granulation tissue , and fibrosis but their importance in terms of clinical management and in identifying residual active cancer remains uncertain .
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