Example sentences of "[to-vb] [that] it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know that if I suddenly start feeling pains anywhere in my body , I do n't have to worry that it is the side effects of drugs , as , regrettably , some athletes do . |
| 2 | They are also happy to accept that it is only because we have these mental states that we behave as we do . |
| 3 | ‘ It is unreasonable for us to accept that it is commonplace for people like our Cabinet Ministers to have affairs , and yet to consider that someone like the Prince of Wales is unfit for the job . ’ |
| 4 | I think you 've got to you 've got to accept that it is a legally binding contract , all of the policies , and I think you have to realise that in any arrangement that you make erm where there is a degree of legality , there has to be parameters put down . |
| 5 | The child needs to know that it is not his fault that everyone is so upset and that someone has died and he is not being punished . |
| 6 | It has a soft , waxy nature and chemically it is important to know that it is insoluble in water . |
| 7 | ‘ And now to know that it is haunted makes me a little apprehensive . ’ |
| 8 | Spots , and in some cases acne , can result from testosterone excess and it may help them to know that it is a passing affliction . |
| 9 | You ca n't see it but you need to know that it is there . |
| 10 | It was a relief to Jean to know that it is n't just the children after all . |
| 11 | For the visual computations algorithmically defined by Ullman do not depend on high-level processes capable of identifying ( recognizing ) objects as members of a specific class : the system does not need to know that an object is a fish , or even that it has the 3-D shape that it has , in order to know that it is an object . |
| 12 | If you happen to know that it is the Prime Minister personally who advises the Queen to dissolve Parliament , you will realise that this gives him the whip hand over other members of the Cabinet — who fear the cataclysm of an untimely election as much as back-benchers do . |
| 13 | They need to know that it is possible to find alternative accommodation for the individual or themselves . |
| 14 | ‘ Old enough , I think , to know that it is not . ’ |
| 15 | It might be helpful to know that it is planned that low flying by jets will decline by about 30 per cent . |
| 16 | I have been in the House long enough to know that it is not appropriate for me to comment on evidence given to a Select Committee until that Committee has reported . |
| 17 | ‘ One does not have to visit that section of America to know that it is famous for women with your look . ’ |
| 18 | Scandalmongers will be disappointed to know that it is not the prostitutes which I have in mind here , rather the fact that this little thing called Amendment 27 to the Maastricht bill is also receiving such a chorus of anticipation . |
| 19 | However , its efficiency advantages in these circumstances should not be used to infer that it is a panacea of organizational design . |
| 20 | It merely states that the normal and primary justification of any authority has to establish that it is qualified to follow with some degree of success the principles which should govern the decisions of all authorities . |
| 21 | Disruptive behaviour has a direct and , at times , devastating impact upon teachers , but it is important to establish that it is not a recent phenomenon . |
| 22 | The shareholders enjoy an additional layer of protection with regard to gratuitous payments , in that in order to show that a payment is authorised by the company 's memorandum it will usually be necessary to establish that it is reasonably incidental to the company 's business purposes , in essence , that it is for the company 's benefit , which is an objective question . |
| 23 | The legislation does therefore not set up any presumption in the employee 's favour ; rather it is for him as claimant to lead evidence which tends to establish that it is more likely than not the employer gained from possession of the patent . |
| 24 | If a correction is made , consumers have the right to demand that it is notified to people who have had information during the previous six months . |
| 25 | A case in point is Gabriel García Márquez 's One Hundred Years of Solitude , on whose closing page the last of the Buendía family finally succeeds in deciphering the hitherto incomprehensible manuscript presented to the family by the mysterious gypsy Melquíades , only to discover that it is an account of the history of the Buendías written 100 years before , that they will cease to exist when he finishes reading it and that he is , in effect , no more than a creature of Melquíades 's imagination , with no existence outside the pages of the manuscript . |
| 26 | Acquiring this kind of expertise brings its own rewards and it is gratifying to discover that it is often easier to explain a subject to others when you have had some difficulty mastering it yourself . |
| 27 | In such circumstances the pool should be placed in a more amenable situation and , by the careful dispersal of excavated soil made to appear that it is in fact lower than it really is . |
| 28 | So , like a mug , I went out and bought it , only to find that it is n't anything like Pink Floyd . |
| 29 | We have all had our share of fruitless journeys to find our dream home , set amid magnificent rolling countryside , only to find that it is 200 yards from the noisy A12 , hemmed in by an ugly industrial building , with a pungent smell of pigs wafting across the garden . |
| 30 | In real life we may solve the problem that seems to confront us only to find that it is not the most important problem . |