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

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1 Although in all the three books considered there is some evolutionary scheme , when we take them together it is clear that Marx and Engels were very willing to modify the overall picture whenever they obtained new information .
2 The use of different flowers for each picture means that each design stands on its own but when the pictures are placed together it is obvious that they form a pair .
3 Lastly it is probable that Rochester acted as a service centre for the comparatively large number of villas situated in the surrounding countryside .
4 In order to give a good effect a fairly wide range of delay times are required , and apparently it is important that the longer times are not exact multiples of the shortest time .
5 Naturally it is disappointing that I am not able to play in some tournaments but there is nothing I can do about that .
6 Perhaps it is better that you are with a wardrobe .
7 Perhaps it is fortunate that the fossil record preserved only a fraction of the truly stupendous total number of species that must have lived since the Cambrian , for otherwise the scientists ' task to catalogue 600 million years of life would be an impossible one .
8 Perhaps it is fortunate that such success came too late to affect the newly developing teacher education programmes very fundamentally .
9 Perhaps it is possible that both are correct .
10 Perhaps it is true that women are kept humble by the nature of their everyday activities .
11 Perhaps it is true that ‘ life begins at 40 ’ ( or 50 ) for those who recognize the opportunities available to them after parenting ceases , and are prepared to take advantage of them .
12 Perhaps it is true that everything points back to one 's youth : as a teenager Winters began a bottle collection after discovering a drugstore basement full of abandoned glass containers .
13 Perhaps it is true that the foreign trade organisation 's tortoise-like negotiations outpace the snail-like progress of Soviet machine building , but it can not be a thrilling race .
14 Perhaps it is inevitable that the west empathises more with countries whose cultures it comprehends better than those of Africa and Asia .
15 Perhaps it is inevitable that the relationship should be difficult .
16 Perhaps it is inevitable that interactive video will remain a favoured medium , at least until the digital options actually become easily , widely and affordably available .
17 Even so it is strange that Veblen should have failed to recognise the magnitude of what the fierce emulation of railroad promoters , industrialists and bankers in fact managed to achieve in North America during so short a space of time .
18 So it is arguable that the select committees promote independence of mind among MPs and make them less willing to vote automatically as the whips would like .
19 So it is believable that , up to the moment when the time came for her to sign the transfer , she knew nothing of it .
20 So it is possible that avian death-feigning is tuned in to this one crucial moment of possible escape .
21 So it is possible that the β -sheet that is present near physiological pH is disrupted at low pH .
22 So it is possible that the difference between Mill and Bentham here is merely apparent .
23 These words are well past her point of failure in the Schonell Test ( that is , ten consecutive errors ) , and so it is possible that she had reached a level of frustration : feeling that all the words were too difficult she ceased to think carefully about whether what she was writing down was likely , and simply put down anything that came to mind .
24 So it is possible that , in the course of evolution , the preening activity of the male has been accentuated because it signals to a female that he is in a state of conflict .
25 So it is possible that the short-run agents in the model over estimate the long term agent 's type after a particular sequence of shocks and subsequently revise this estimate downwards .
26 It has been argued that compression of the abdomen increases the ‘ pinchcock ’ effect of the angular incisura and so it is possible that this manoeuvre could actually prevent reflux in some patients .
27 But on the other hand people are interested in the nature of noise , people are interested in neighbour noise , aeroplane noise , motorcycle noise , and so it is possible that , that some of you will , will be interviewed on that kind of thing .
28 So it is appropriate that the first champion to be whelped in this country was Ch.
29 It is extremely easy to exceed these bounds when specifying a program , and so it is essential that a programmer experienced in the particular system or systems to be used is involved in the initial design discussions .
30 So it is essential that those people that
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