Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [that] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Putting it in an academic essay would certainly be unexpected , but it might be possible to claim that it is a regional/class standard written form . |
| 2 | But then , Bella 's home-help came out of the bungalow and it was no use any more trying to pretend that it was n't happening … . |
| 3 | thank you um , it will be quick ah one of the things which caused distress last year was the reduction in the for sixth formers and I was sorry to see that it would n't be restored this time . |
| 4 | It was no doubt less advanced in its industrial organisation than Lancashire , where the last of the surviving handloom weavers were absorbed into other employment in the 1850s , but it would be unrealistic to claim that it was not industrial . |
| 5 | Most sceptics about natural selection are prepared to accept that it can bring about minor changes like the dark coloration that has evolved in various species of moth since the industrial revolution . |
| 6 | BCRS members of all people will understand something of the geography and communications of the area , and will , I am sure , be interested to know that it was to the Stone House that our Secretary was taken after his recent heart attack . ) |
| 7 | For instance , in some intuitive , non-technical sense of ‘ probable ’ , we may be prepared to assert that it is to some degree probable that a very heavy smoker will die of lung cancer . |
| 8 | The hon. Member for Lancaster will be interested to hear that it says that the national curriculum will not be delivered because of the difficulty — |
| 9 | It is wholly wrong to suggest that it is the European Community alone which has difficulties with the agriculture dossier . |
| 10 | Nor is it sensible to wish that it were otherwise , since raptures , aesthetic , erotic , intellectual , mystical , in which the spontaneous floods the whole of consciousness , can lift us to heights of awareness beyond our ordinary capacities . |
| 11 | It would be wrong to conclude that it is simply because women live longer than men . |
| 12 | The Commission is careful to stress that it has no intention of developing a grand ‘ European Cultural Policy ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ It would be foolish to forget that it 's happened before . |
| 14 | The accountancy profession is prepared to concede that it no longer has the resources or the right to safeguard the integrity of accounting standards . |
| 15 | Introducing research into the curriculum is justifiable provided that it is used to expand the student 's intellectual horizons , and not because it propels students towards becoming embryonic researchers . |
| 16 | Whether or not that was the intent of the regulations — and I am willing to believe that it was not the Minister 's intent — that has been the net effect of the way in which the three-week period was cut off due to the way that the regulations were tabled . |
| 17 | If a libel is extremely serious , to the extent that a court is prepared to hold that it can not be compensated by money and deserves to be punished as a crime , its publisher may be made the target of a prosecution . |
| 18 | The British insisted that it be worked by British operators — reluctantly agreed to — and it finally entered Australia in the Northern Territories . |
| 19 | But setting her misgivings about Tommaso himself aside , Caterina decided that she had been quite wrong to think that it was she who had caught his attention . |
| 20 | But he is wrong to say that it is a gloss — especially as a rabbinic scholium ! — on the Sabbath service only , and to hang ( as he does ) all his review from it . |
| 21 | The employment White Paper was published under a coalition dominated by Conservatives and Labour , but it was not the result of discussion within each party , and although leading politicians on both sides endorsed its policy it would be wrong to say that it reflected the considered view of either party . |
| 22 | For the purposes of analysing intonation , a unit generally greater in size than the syllable is needed , and this unit is called the tone-unit ; in its smallest form the tone-unit may consist of only one syllable , so it would in fact be wrong to say that it is always composed of more than one syllable . |
| 23 | Consequently , it is wrong to say that it has a grammatical function . |
| 24 | He found , for example , that one company was realising that the whaling situation had been allowed to become a terrible indictment of all those involved in the industry , the Governments concerned and the International Whaling Commission , but I am afraid to say that it was the attitudes of the other two companies that prevailed in Japan for the ensuing years . |
| 25 | Of course , if one has the belief one would indeed be prepared to say that it does not adequately account for the evolution of animal life , but that is not what one is saying here and now . |
| 26 | In fact , he was willing to admit that it was . |
| 27 | Says Charlotte , ‘ I 'm embarrassed to admit that it was an agony aunt who finally dispelled my end-of-teenage doldrums . |
| 28 | It is interesting to note that it is the present policy of some authorities to allow such a prisoner to die rather than to submit him to the indignity of forcible feeding . |
| 29 | The other officers drifted away , and Charles following into the office was relieved to see that it hardly differed from those he had known . |
| 30 | Well , I have been following this mailing list and have yet to post a message , but am sad to see that it is under these circumstances that I post my first … |