Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [that] it [be] " in BNC.

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1 He admits also that Buddhism displayed a tendency to participation as it spread out from India into other countries , though he fails to recognize the examples of participation which might be said to derive from the communal life of the sangha and so insists that it is the principle of identity that predominates .
2 Editor , — Fritz H Schröder rightly emphasises that it is not known whether treatment of early prostatic cancer is beneficial or whether screening for the disease offers any advantage .
3 Questions of the witnesses credibility may be relevant , and will be considered below ; that his evidence is controversial , taken alone , merely establishes that it is material to the issues in the case ; it is a reason for making an order , not for refusing to do so .
4 quoted with approval a passage in Jervis on Coroners , 9th ed. ( 1957 ) , p. 179 , now to be found in the 10th ed. p. 197 , that any conflict between a verdict of lack of care and rule 33 of the Coroners Rules 1953 , now rule 42 of the Rules of 1984 , can be obviated by making sure that the verdict does not state that the death was aggravated by the lack of care of any particular person or persons but merely states that it was aggravated by lack of care .
5 Sometimes I do n't seem real to myself , it suddenly seems that it is n't my reflection only a foot or two away .
6 Its domination of the final text only means that it is Raskolnikov 's favourite way of rationalizing his malaise .
7 If correct , this apparently means that it was after the conquest of Norway in 1028 and therefore after he attended the imperial coronation of Conrad II of Germany in Rome in 1027 .
8 This fact alone implies that it was not an exhausting activity but was used for relaxation and entertainment .
9 ( This perhaps indicates that it was tactically inept in this case for the plaintiffs to seek to persuade the court that the whole package of information was confidential. ) 5 Whether additional protection should be afforded to an employer where the former employee is not seeking to earn his living by making use of the body of skill , knowledge and experience which he has acquired in the course of his career , but is merely selling to a third party information which he acquired in confidence in the course of his former employment Goulding J drew no such distinction .
10 It merely indicates that it is the duty of ‘ every person responsible for public records … to make arrangements for the selection of those records which ought to be permanently preserved and for their safe-keeping ’ .
11 He never doubts that it is possible or desirable for the critic to recreate in himself the mental condition of the author ; he only recognizes that it is difficult .
12 At the same time he rightly argues that it is premature to conceive of a cycle of decentralization since that might ‘ presuppose the existence of one single major engine behind the process and suggest the possibility of the recurrence of a similar round of developments in the future ’ ( pp. 35–6 ) .
13 This critic apparently knows that it is a birthright of every English person to enter a cathedral in winter and hear the sound of voices , rendered seraphic by the spacious acoustic , singing to almost nobody .
14 Bede represents Oswald as bringing under his sway all the peoples of Britain , divided by language into Angles , Britons , Picts and Irish ( HE 111 , 6 ) , but elsewhere writes that it was his brother and successor Oswiu , who made tributary the Picts and the Scots who inhabited the northern parts of Britain ( HE 11 , 5 ) .
15 The Council declared that the Church of Christ is to be found here , but it no longer says that it is not to be found anywhere else as well .
16 No it just says that it 's basically to the effect of that the answering machine is quite reliable
17 do n't you go comma say your teacher , or somebody like that , so it just shows that it 's not a reference .
18 In practice , however , the young constable soon learns that it is a more paying proposition from his point of view so to work his beat that the time-table is not deflected from .
19 If we hoard money , it soon learns that it is not needed , and we no longer attract it .
20 Our range of reverse osmosis units has met with considerable interest and just proves that it is no good trying to adapt unsuitable systems to the fishkeeper — they need and deserve purpose-built items .
21 Whether the Ephesian disciples were Christians or not before Paul 's arrival — and the development of the story suggests that he finds they were not — Paul 's initial question still assumes that it is possible to be a believer in Jesus without receiving fully the Holy Spirit .
22 When knitting an adult size garment , the slow progress of the garter carriage usually means that it is only possible to knit one garment piece each day .
23 The Bank of England , old nanny that she is at heart , always believes that it is good for her charges to learn patience .
24 Legislation has in fact been issued under general treaty powers which expressly states that it is intended to implement the Social Charter , such as Directive 91/533 on contracts of employment , which , since it was made under Article 100 which requires unanimity in the Council , must at the least not have been opposed by the United Kingdom minister .
25 Lady Bertram advises Fanny that ‘ it is every woman 's duty to accept such a very exceptional offer ’ and Edmund also thinks that it is ‘ most advantageous and desirable ’ .
26 Autodesk Inc , Sausalito , California has decided that IBM Corp 's Cadam Inc computer-aided design software base is ripe for plundering , and is developing two Cadam-emulation products , Aemulus and Aemulus(mf) , which are now in alpha test : the products , which offer a Cadam-like user interface and bi-directional compatibility with Cadam files , are also compatible with AutoCAD Release 12 ; Aemulus is an AutoCAD Development System application with a Cadam-like graphics interface and command set and enables customers to edit existing Cadam models or create new Cadam-compatible models on the desktop ; Aemulus(mf) is a mainframe-resident program that enables customers to quickly and completely convert Cadam two-dimensional Interactive Drawing files to DXF files or vice versa ; both are set for shipment in May 1993 but pricing has not yet been decided ; the company also says that it is expanding its product line beyond the drafting portion of the design spectrum it has traditionally occupied to cover the entire spectrum from conceptualisation to manufacturing , and that as a first step its three top-selling drafting and design packages , AutoCAD , Generic CADD and AutoSketch , have been brought together under one organisational umbrella , and are being precisely defined and clarified in terms of their relationship to each other ; development is under way to enable the three products to work together and share files across networks .
27 The Prime Minister also says that it is a disgrace that there are not more women on public boards .
28 According to teletext , he is set to move for 2.7 million , text also says that it is a boardroom decision to sell him , he is currently in talks with Kenny daglesh .
29 He also realises that it is the structure of costs that determines the ways in which farmers as entrepreneurs respond .
30 He also notes that it is increasingly difficult to persuade donors that uneconomic development schemes ( and the roads and sewers that have accompanied them ) should be paid for with drug-control money .
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