Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb infin] [that] it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have to be straight and up front with children to let them know that it is OK for them to use their own words and explain their concerns in their won way , ’ says Brown . |
| 2 | Nor do I think that it is disgraceful if two men of a loving disposition should set up home together . |
| 3 | Nor do I think that it is necessary at this stage . |
| 4 | In those circumstances it does not seem to me right to leave open , whether the court has power to do so I 'm doubtful , but in any event it does not seem to me right to leave open a question of whether there should be some damages to provide for the possibility that er Paul may have to leave school , nor do I think that it is a situation in which any contingency award should be made in respect of that . |
| 5 | Do I understand that it is a HUMAN EXPERIENCE the symbol evokes ? |
| 6 | In case you are frightened off , may I say that it is unusual for there to be more than three major matters arising from a survey on the average house . |
| 7 | Nor can I accept that it is my duty to reform hawks and pigeons so that they become well-behaved social humans where the hawks stop grabbing baby pigeons and the pigeons stop nicking my peas . |
| 8 | All of this has made me understand that it is time for change , and I want to explain how I believe I can continue to serve Britain . |
| 9 | To read at sight whatever is submitted to him is child 's play … he makes me realize that it is difficult to guard against madness on seeing prodigies . |
| 10 | Do you think that it is a good policy ? |
| 11 | So let us look at the present day , and to take this wording , do you consider that it is now appropriate that Skelton should expand any further ? |
| 12 | Do you know that it is far better to train by reward than by punishment ? |
| 13 | Just to avoid confusion , the slave machine pops up a small banner at the top of the screen to let you know that it is being controlled from the other machine . |
| 14 | Teacher : How can you tell that it is your shadow ? |
| 15 | Do you find that it is a particular type of child who tends to come up in front of you ? |
| 16 | Does she accept that it is impossible to explain to them why patients who are haemophiliacs are eligible for compensation but they are not — even though my constituents have the same condition , life expectancy and financial pressures ? |
| 17 | But how do we know that it is vocationally advantageous to study history or to put it the other way round , that to study history is not vocationally disadvantageous ? |
| 18 | For example , if the deprivation experienced by the mother of a child in care is not mentioned in a case file , can we assume that it is absent ? |
| 19 | It could involve a civil engineering student considering the social effects of a new construction — in other words , taking on a sociological perspective ; it could be a student of English trying to answer the question ‘ What is literature and why do we assume that it is a good thing ? ’ — and so embracing the thinking of moral philosophy ; it might be a student in the performing arts trying to understand how and why a particular tradition had evolved — so embarking on a historical study ; it could be a chemistry student being invited to consider the effects on the natural environment of industrial or agricultural chemicals — so adding a biological approach to the subject ; or it might be a social science student keen on human perspectives being encouraged to look at underlying statistical patterns . |
| 20 | disputing if it whether it is or it is n't , but how can we show that it is ? |
| 21 | Can we say that it is preferable to any system or order of government that might be devised ? ’ |
| 22 | I will be able to bring what is going on here in science back to the children in the classroom , and make them realise that it is not so far away from what they are learning about . |
| 23 | ( Parenthetically , let me admit that it is n't easy to resist cracking all those nut jokes . |
| 24 | One researcher asks the following question : ‘ When the hero guns down the villain , do children really learn that a crime does not pay ’ or do they learn that it is good to kill –bad people ’ ? ’ |
| 25 | Let me add that it is this very spur … which has made her choose anorexia in preference to , say , toxicomania or obesity , two conditions that spell surrender to her own greed . |
| 26 | When a young cat approaches an adult for play , letting it know that it is in a relaxed mood and accepts its subordinate social position . |
| 27 | When a sick cat is approached by a dominant one , letting it know that it is in a weak , non-hostile mood . |
| 28 | Does not he recognise that it is a broadly based representative body in which it was open to the Conservative party to participate and that for him to call now for a debate , once its work is completed , is extraordinary ? |
| 29 | Does he recognise that it is one of the commercial miracles of Northern Ireland and is now envied by many areas in the United Kingdom ? |
| 30 | When the Minister discusses higher education funding at Leeds , will he confirm that it is Government policy to increase basic funding in line with the increase in student numbers ? |