Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [that] it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | So , like a mug , I went out and bought it , only to find that it is n't anything like Pink Floyd . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In real life we may solve the problem that seems to confront us only to find that it is not the most important problem . |
| 6 | As ta ; tends to unity the types become progressively more far sighted , so to ensure that it is still not worth engaging in the permanent imitation of z = 0 the benefits from following the equilibrium strategy are increased . |
| 7 | To claim that explanation in geography can go no further is only to say that it is inadequate to its task , and ignores the fact that many geographers are going further : |
| 8 | Hewlett-Packard Co , the company that has an evangelising belief that the Common Open Software Environment is the key to its future Unix strategy , is now confident enough to admit that it is unlikely to incorporate any of the Open Software Foundation 's current operating system technology into its own HP-UX Unix system software . |
| 9 | Hewlett-Packard Co , the company which has an evangelizing belief that COSE is the key to its future Unix strategy , is now confident enough to admit that it is unlikely to incorporate any of the Open Software Foundation 's current operating system technology into its own HP-UX Unix system software . |
| 10 | To maintain that the content of literature is part of a system of signs with a structure of its own , independent of the ‘ real ’ world , is clearly to maintain that it is in theory analyzable in the same way as its language ; but in practice a ready-made set of conceptual tools is simply not available . |
| 11 | Which is also to say that it is not the case that there is no connection , or that a category mistake is involved in the mere comparison . |
| 12 | ‘ It must also be thoroughly researched locally to ensure that it is not being called after an undesirable part of town . |
| 13 | ‘ And now to know that it is haunted makes me a little apprehensive . ’ |
| 14 | It is useful to recall Wittgenstein in this connection : ‘ It is a help here to remember that it is a primitive reaction to tend , to treat , the part that hurts when someone else is in pain ; and not merely when oneself is ’ ( Z 540 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It is interesting here to note that it is paralleled by one from Islam of how Allah sent the angel Gabriel to search for a pious man in a certain place . |
| 17 | Thus it is one thing to adopt a radically subjectivist posture towards law reform and another thing entirely to purport merely to be describing the law as it is and then to conclude that it is wholly or even primarily subjectivist . |
| 18 | The 103/4 really does project the sound out and away from itself ; so much so in fact that it is genuinely hard sometimes to believe that it is actually responsible for what one is hearing . |
| 19 | We check and re-check the information about accommodation and resorts both at home and abroad to ensure that it is correct at the time of going to press Dec ( 1989 ) . |
| 20 | Those are the three steps , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , first to make it , then to ensure that it is seen , and finally to finish with everything . |
| 21 | Yet we who teach in primary schools need continually to remember that it is with children that we work . |