Example sentences of "[coord] it [be] [adj] that " in BNC.

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1 She might have had a brief illness best treated outside the home , or it is possible that the balance of her mind was disturbed in some way .
2 " Or it is possible that exaggerated stories have got about of the valuables in Moorlake .
3 whereby that person is likely to believe that such violence would be used or it is likely that such violence would be provoked .
4 ‘ whereby that person is likely to believe that such violence would be used or it is likely that such violence would be provoked ’ .
5 ‘ whereby that person is likely to believe that such violence would be used or it is likely that such violence would be provoked ’ The officer dealing and/or civilian witnesses could help prove this point by including in their evidence observations such as , ‘ The crowd of visiting football supporters were likely to believe they were going to be attacked ’ , or ‘ It was likely that the visiting supporters would lose their tempers and attack the home crowd ’ .
6 ‘ ( 1 ) A person is guilty of an offence if he — ( a ) uses towards another person threatening , abusive or insulting words or behaviour , or ( b ) distributes or displays to another person any writing , sign or other visible representation which is threatening , abusive or insulting , with intent to cause that person to believe that immediate unlawful violence will be used against him or another by any person , or to provoke the immediate use of unlawful violence by that person or another , or whereby that person is likely to believe that such violence will be used or it is likely that such violence will be provoked . ’
7 ‘ whereby that person is likely to believe that such violence ( i.e. immediate unlawful violence against him or another ) will be used or it is likely that such violence will be provoked . ’
8 It will be argued that if a policeman is confronted by a situation in which he fears that violence will be directed towards him if he intervenes , or it is likely that there will be such violence , the offence is committed .
9 This is Brando 's first film since 1980 and it 's good that his old campaigning fire was still sufficiently there under the millions and the sloth to pull him into this .
10 Nadia : I am from the General Union of Palestinian Women and it 's good that I am participating in this meeting at this time because I am having major problems with the British Feminist Movement and the Western feminist line .
11 There will be , certainly , and it 's necessary that there be pressures to keep things under control .
12 And it 's odd that you did n't notice , when the bug was put on ’ .
13 A great deal of discussion will be generated and it 's certain that the bulk of the attributes will focus on relationships rather than on curriculum or administrative matters .
14 I do n't know whether it has made any difference , but now we 're obliged to abandon some of our defences and it 's certain that your presence can no longer help us .
15 I mean if you 're writing to someone er and it 's instant that 's a good point .
16 I know that sounds quite sad and it 's embarrassing that I copied him , but I ca n't help it because I thought it looked so great on him .
17 I want to know how this man got into the courtyard — somebody must have opened the main door and gate for him and it 's possible that somebody going out may have seen him .
18 Because it was a secret project there were several phases being developed separately , and it 's possible that Professor Liawski did n't like the forms of experimentation that Jenner was using .
19 And it 's possible that the curious telephone conversation in the flat , with its reference to postponing something for a week , related to your time limit .
20 ( 10 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars ( 11 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars and it 's possible that there is no life on Mars ( 12 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars , and in fact it is now certain that there is Now from this set of dilemmas the notion of implicature offers a way out , for it allows one to claim that natural language expressions do tend to have simple , stable and unitary senses ( in many cases anyway ) , but that this stable semantic core of en has an unstable , context-specific pragmatic overlay — namely a set of implicatures .
21 It is going to be a great atmosphere and it 's fantastic that between us we have sold 70,000 tickets .
22 So I think we are actually obliged , and it 's right that people should be consulted , but there is a point about it that it takes an awful long time and that is actually the reason why we 've got er a whole programme of urban safety management schemes that er are taking a long time to develop , it 's almost two years now , and the main reason for that is toing and froing with different designs with members of the public and the worst thing we could do is actually put in a package of schemes which people say , well that 's not what we wanted anyway .
23 Right and it 's anticipated that you will strike the erm , the hoop in the process .
24 In fact I have made one very important friend in the past week or so and it 's ironic that your last letter is responsible for this friendship !
25 one of the reasons for introducing the community charge that and it 's ironic that it was just possible , especially in nineteen erm ninety erm that the community charge was meaning wa was bringing about a change where people were voting on local issues , the prime local issue of course being what would be the level of the , of the community charge .
26 We we saw him come on against Birmingham about a month or so ago and save that penalty and it 's ironic that that 's how Nigel Spinks started at at Villa was n't it when he came on for Jimmy Rimmer and if Bosnich does the same job as what Nigel 's done over the past ten years then no one 's going to argue .
27 ‘ Everyone on the staff has worked really hard , ’ he said , ‘ and it 's great that their efforts have been rewarded . ’
28 Surround those splendid three minutes with plenty of screaming , attitude with a capital ‘ TUDE ’ and a song called ‘ Anyone Can Play Guitar ’ and it 's apparent that Radiohead are at least halfway towards realising some worryingly aggressive ambitions .
29 ‘ We were all friends before we got the band together , and it 's strange that there 's gon na be changes , ’ continues Greg , with clinical ruthlessness .
30 1001 Ways to Save the Planet deserves to experience the irony of being consumed in vast quantities — and it 's interesting that Penguin has been willing to launch it towards a mass readership sheathed in a determinedly dowdy recycled cover .
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