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

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1 It is rather unexpected that most of the values obtained are even .
2 It is equally possible that these officials were billeted on local householders , a practice which became increasingly common among Roman army units in the late empire .
3 But it is equally clear that both the discovery of the first teichoic acid and those systematic endeavours afterwards are properly described as ‘ research ’ .
4 It is equally clear that some directors have privately expressed fears that , given the crudeness with which the 1993–4 budget trends will have been constructed , severe cash shortages could affect them by September .
5 However , it is equally plain that these agreements have been no more than limited curbs on the growth of nuclear weaponry .
6 If it can be claimed that the young men who spend a short time in a school before moving on provide the vitality , it is equally true that those who devote their whole lives to a single school give the continuity , tradition , and wisdom which are equally , if not more , important .
7 It is equally vital that both should be mentioned , otherwise a client , particularly a buyer , could be seriously misled .
8 Most will die , but since many millions are contained in even one drop of semen it is practically inevitable that some will find their way through the uterus into the fallopian tubes .
9 It is likewise important that those who make use of media such as the audiocassette or videocassette should not see themselves as mere consumers .
10 It is fundamentally important that these 12 Steps are actually worked rather than recited or merely thought to be nice in theory .
11 It is wholly admirable that this country can provide research facilities and educational expertise to overseas students , but the value of their work to this country may consist solely of the funding which they bring with them , the esteem in which they hold this country 's institutions when they have returned home , and their subsequent contacts and consultancies .
12 It is wholly admirable that this country can provide research facilities and educational expertise to overseas students , but the value of their work to this country may consist solely of the funding which they bring with them , the esteem in which they hold this country 's institutions when they have returned home , and their subsequent contacts and consultancies .
13 The owner of the estate in the fourth century would thus have been a Firminus , since it is reasonably certain that this building stone belonged to the house built c .
14 They certainly performed the other functions of the chapel of the contemporary kings of Germany ; and it is doubtless significant that some of them were of German origin .
15 It is thus possible that most of the tissue damage is caused by neutrophils generating free oxygen radicals and releasing lysosomal enzymes when in contact with a chemoattractant within the lumina propria .
16 It is thus likely that many ( perhaps most ) villages are relative latecomers to the English landscape .
17 Talking to regular BES investors it is soon apparent that most have suffered from a trading company failing in its early days .
18 But it is particularly ironic that this body of teaching on to which Christian mysticism was grafted was élitist in its view of those to whom such knowledge was possible .
19 It is particularly appropriate that this first annual review from the Institute and Faculty comes at the end of a year which has seen so much co-operation between our two organisations .
20 It is particularly interesting that this strengthening or preservation applies to the conjunction of two stimuli , as shown in the strabismus experiment : cells that respond to joint excitation of the two eyes are normally found , but are missing if joint excitation has been made very improbable by misaligning the eyes .
21 It is particularly illogical that this kind of argument should be coming from politicians who , in other contexts , would be the first to argue , and rightly , that Vietnam is not some kind of monster State , but merely a ramshackle and inefficient one that has lost its way .
22 It is particularly illogical that this kind of argument should be coming from politicians who , in other contexts , would be the first to argue , and rightly , that Vietnam is not some kind of monster State , but merely a ramshackle and inefficient one that has lost its way .
23 It is particularly important that those who work with and for elderly people keep a sense of perspective about this because , in their work , they will encounter a biased sample , those who need their help , many of whom do present serious problems .
24 It is particularly important that those members of staff who participate in interviews with the potential expatriate and spouse are well-briefed to ask the right questions and in turn provide detailed , helpful responses to any anxieties raised .
25 It is particularly important that this message comes from the woman : your partner is still a real man and you have to let him know that loud and clear .
26 It is particularly important that any PR/advertising consultants advising the offeror are made aware of all relevant facts .
27 Wedgwood Museum curator Gaye Blake Roberts said : ‘ It is particularly exciting that this exhibition should take place in view of Wedgwood 's long trading association with the Netherlands which is Wedgwood 's oldest export market , dating back to 1763 .
28 During early 1990 $297m worth of securities were stolen from a City messenger and whilst a general alert went out should any unusual presentations for payment be made at maturity to minimise the risk of loss , it is nevertheless true that this kind of occurrence causes a certain difficulty due to the fact that invariably the instruments in question are bearer instruments .
29 Whilst one may argue that it would be wrong to attribute ego-functions to animals in which the id/ego differentiation was difficult to justify because their behaviour was largely under instinctual , preprogrammed control , it is nevertheless true that some mammals — and in particular some higher primates — do seem to show a plasticity of behaviour and an elaboration of activity which clearly point to the beginnings , however primitive , of ego-functions proper .
30 It is nevertheless likely that more middle class women accepted than resisted the experts ' view of their physiology and psychology , though they may also have passed those views through their own filter .
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