Example sentences of "it is [adj] [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fundamentally , politicians in our system are almost always guided by two considerations : first , short-term gains , since their horizons stretch only to the next election ; second , public pressure if it is strong enough to suggest that votes depend on their response . |
| 2 | Although perhaps vulnerable to strong winds in this position , in lighter winds it is stable enough to ensure that no tyres are needed . |
| 3 | However , it is good enough to say that light entering one end of the fibre will reflect repeatedly along its length and eventually emerge at the other end ( see Fig 4 ) . |
| 4 | This whole matter was destined to create much controversy and is addressed further below , but it is necessary here to note that the problem was of concern to the Rapporteur , Mr. Taborda Ferreira of Portugal , who expressed his anxieties in his commentary on the preliminary draft . |
| 5 | Here it is necessary merely to stress that an applicant has the right of appeal to the secretary of state against conditional permissions and refusals . |
| 6 | That is , if the same grammatical tag is found more than once in a position it is necessary only to know that the tag occurs in that position and the best scores associated with that tag . |
| 7 | And in recent years it is impossible not to see that Dale Thomas ' name occurs more than others , including being five times the Club Champion — winning on one occasion after a 60-hole match ! |
| 8 | Even at the design stage it is useful also to recognise that all this material will require procedures for updating in the light of experience |
| 9 | As with any accountability procedure it is insufficient just to indicate that a failure has occurred ; information must be forthcoming on how to improve educational practice . |
| 10 | The requirement of full disclosure of all material facts means that it is insufficient merely to disclose that the firm has an interest or to put the customer on enquiry . |
| 11 | It is easy enough to accept that a child 's first word should label its mother , until we start to think about it : why should a child connect sounds with objects at all ? |
| 12 | It is easy enough to assert that active transport across membranes occurs , but much harder to explain how . |
| 13 | It is easy now to see that the problem of papal authority was the one problem of outstanding importance among many minor questions raised in these letters . |
| 14 | It is true enough to say that we would have no conception of it . |
| 15 | However , you will recognize the rotation even when it is large enough to ensure that , in most cases , the nearest neighbour is not the image . |
| 16 | From the lifetime budget constraint , one can see the equivalence of an expenditure base and lifetime receipts ; it is important however to note that the timing is different , and hence any taxes levied will be liable at different dates . |
| 17 | It is important also to remember that a post or pension given to a member could be a reward for past services as well as a means of securing future ones . |
| 18 | With a postal questionnaire , it is important also to check that the layout is neither confusing nor encouraging any particular response . |
| 19 | It is important also to note that we are not implying that any major catastrophe will occur should the stress level continue to rise so high that the glass spills over . |
| 20 | Low achievement and social disadvantage are clearly associated , though it is important not to assume that there is a simple relation between them . |
| 21 | This is particularly relevant in attitude surveys , where it is important not to assume that people 's expressed attitudes , on , say , race relations , are consistent with their actual behaviour . |
| 22 | It is a commonplace to see culture as man 's building , climbing and reaching — indeed , one whole school of anthropology sees it as his tool-making — but it is important not to forget that in man , as in the other primates , intelligent , adaptive behaviour — behaviour , in other words , mediated by the ego — is motivated by his instinctual drives . |
| 23 | It is important here to stress that it is not just hitting to the target that is foremost , but at all times moving the feet to take the ball in one bounce . |
| 24 | It is important here to note that Rule 3 applies only if it is the seller who is to do the weighing , measuring , testing , etc . |
| 25 | At the moment , it is important only to note that the prospective sale of the industry and the opening up of competition within electricity generation produced a fundamental dilemma . |
| 26 | It is important then to realise that ischaemic heart disease has different natural histories with different manifestations . |
| 27 | Its success will depend upon people believing that Mr Lamont knows what he was doing , and that his forecasts are reliable ; and it is difficult not to reflect that an alternative Chancellor would have had carried more conviction . |
| 28 | It is difficult not to notice that the ‘ bundle of sticks ’ is reminiscent of the Roman fasces , the bundle of rods with a protruding axe-head , carried before Roman consuls as a sign of the state authority of Rome , and adopted by Mussolini as a symbol of the movement he led to power in 1922 , whence the word ‘ fascist ’ . |
| 29 | It is difficult not to conclude that the motive for the ‘ allegations ’ was the political self-interest of the government . |
| 30 | It is difficult not to believe that they attached too much importance to Law 's availability . |