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 | Very often the history of an object is not known at all and there may be reason to believe that it is not all that it purports to be . |
| 6 | According to Mark Raymond , senior analyst at consultancy DataPro , ‘ The action will clearly strengthen the chances of it becoming the industry standard , but it is not certain that it will influence the IEEE ’ . |
| 7 | But it is not surprising that it first arose in what history has called ‘ the Hungry Forties ’ . |
| 8 | It was a classic imperial response in every sense , and it is not surprising that it was to feed into Fascist Italian and German canons of architectural taste . |
| 9 | Thus when W , composed of parts X and Y , exists , something exists besides X and Y , and it is not surprising that it should have its own fresh value . |
| 10 | Western philosophy has a long tradition so it is not surprising that it has changed over the centuries both in content and in method . |
| 11 | Given the adversarial procedures of the Court it is not surprising that it defined a dispute in bilateral terms . |
| 12 | It is not surprising that it was , and still is , grown as a garden plant , since its large , soft , grey-green leaves and brightly coloured flowers are splendidly ornamental . |
| 13 | Thus for Smith it is not surprising that it is Britain ( the former dominant capitalist economy ) and the United States ( the leading post-war economy ) which have felt the need to maintain permanent arms economies . |
| 14 | Given philosophy 's interest in the foundations of human knowledge it is not surprising that it should spend a considerable amount of its concern with science , the form of human knowledge which has achieved so much . |
| 15 | Donald Goodenough , in his scholarly review of the very technical evidence on this issue comparing the recall of dreams by different personality types , comes to the conclusion that while repression may be responsible for the forgetting of some dreams , it is not feasible that it could account for the majority . |
| 16 | In general these proposals have not been implemented , indeed the government has stated that it is not convinced that it is right to fund litigation out of public funds , other than through the legal aid scheme , where points of law of general importance are involved . |
| 17 | This theme , the ties between city and colony , and the ways they were reinforced , weakened or broken in the great war , is important to Thucydides , and it is not accidental that it occurs thus early . |
| 18 | Even if it is true that God has guided someone into a particular religion , there is no reason why the sociologist can not study the social processes involved in the person 's conversion ; and , conversely , even if it is not true that it was God who was responsible , that does not mean that the sociologist can not study the belief and the ( possibly very considerable ) consequences of that belief for the individual concerned and for society . |
| 19 | He added : ‘ It is not true that it will never reopen . |
| 20 | It is not likely that it was at once allowed to develop in complete freedom , when that was a characteristic foreign to the Roman legal tradition . |
| 21 | Although there is much to be said for freedom of information , it is not clear that it would greatly help individual aggrieved citizens . |
| 22 | The linguistic explanation of legare as a general term helps , then , to explain some serious awkwardnesses , but it is not clear that it disposes of all entirely . |
| 23 | ‘ That is an inquisitorial power , which may work with great severity against third persons , and it seems to me to be obvious that such a section ought to be used with the greatest care , so as not unnecessarily to put in motion the machinery of justice when it is not wanted , or to put it in motion at a stage when it is not clear that it is wanted , and certainly not to put it in motion if unnecessary mischief is going to be done or hardship inflicted upon the third person who is called upon to appear and give information . |
| 24 | However , it is not clear that it is substantially more humiliating and distressing than forced acts of oral sex or object penetration . |
| 25 | While not denying that this has an important role to play in any science , it is not clear that it is the method responsible for the discovery of natural laws . |
| 26 | However , this classification is illuminating only to the extent that apposition is well understood , and it is not clear that it is , or even can be . |
| 27 | It is also important to note , furthermore , that while the external labour market may act as an incentive for directors to be more diligent , it is not obvious that it will improve the position where they lack flair or are simply inept . |
| 28 | As a successful town , it is not unlikely that it also became a pagus centre for part of the Dobunni and additionally the residence of the regionarius mentioned above ( p. 34 ) . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 30 | 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 ! |