Example sentences of "[vb infin] that it is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one knows where HIV started , but we do know that it is spreading fast and nearly every country in the world has people with HIV or AIDS . |
| 2 | The collector will know that it is faked up in the style of an earlier period . |
| 3 | A tenant should ensure that it is made aware of such an agreement so that it can consider the implications of it . |
| 4 | Explain the system carefully and do ensure that it is seen to be fair . |
| 5 | So simply making up the calcium that astronauts excrete may not ensure that it is laid down properly in new bone . |
| 6 | People will feel that it is threatened , and we shall not get the recruits we need . |
| 7 | It does not follow that it is binding . |
| 8 | The satellite pictures shows a lot of cloud just to the east of us , but you 'll see that it is moving away . |
| 9 | Yet if one observes this battle more closely one may see that it is waged around what one might call the ephemera of sex : what is seen , what is said , what is written rather than what is or is not concerned with sexual reality . |
| 10 | If we look at a typical Midland deserted village site with the aid of air photographs and maps , we can see that it is made up of certain features which occur again and again on such sites , the most distinctive being the sunken holloways marking the courses of old roads and paths . |
| 11 | ( If it is addressed to myself as Parish Clerk I will see that it is displayed prominently in the village . ) |
| 12 | You 'll see that it is written in a slightly more formal style so that you can be absolutely clear what we expect of your now that you are working in the ES . |
| 13 | Imagine a department which can see that it is going to overspend its budget . |
| 14 | We should also note that it is based on certain assumptions , for example it is assumed that those who have some reason to form a pressure group will , in an open society , do so , and that the degree of governmental response will depend on the degree of pressure the group is able to exert , and that this is directly related to the group 's importance to the community . |
| 15 | The preamble to the court order might indicate that it is made ( for example ) on the basis that the wife will keep the property in good repair ; this is certainly " persuasive " in the event of a row . |
| 16 | But this does not mean that it is fitted only to be used on matters at the extreme end of the spectrum of abstraction — that it can , for instance , discuss people only in so far as they are rational beings , or sets of behaviour-patterns , or immortal souls . |
| 17 | In the novels of Dickens , slum housing invariably goes upon crutches , but that does not necessarily mean that it is advanced in years . |
| 18 | And just because the fish lives in the water with it , does not mean that it is going to eat it — it would be like you eating mouldy food . |
| 19 | I dare say he felt that all this modern stuff was a bit beyond him , and I must admit that it is getting beyond me . |
| 20 | 3.3 Time restrictions If there is no mention of a time restriction in a covenant then the courts will normally infer that it is intended that the restriction should last forever . |
| 21 | Whether the NHS is meeting the needs of the patients and the community , and can prove that it is doing so is open to question " . |
| 22 | Does he agree that it is becoming a matter of considerable importance that a common position is reached ? |
| 23 | Martin Braine found that if children between five and six years of age are shown a standard visual illusion — such as a stick in water appearing to be broken , by light refraction — they will distinguish correctly between ‘ looks ? ’ and ‘ really ? ’ questions , but that if they are asked the neutral question ‘ Is the stick straight or broken ? ’ they will say that it is broken . |
| 24 | If the focus process suggests one candidate in an earlier ‘ batch ’ than another , we can say that it is imposing a strong preference between those candidates ; so strong that the second one will only be considered at all if the reasoner decides the first is completely implausible . |
| 25 | AT&T Co says it is studying a device that would turn an ordinary television set into a terminal that could call up films , shows and information or act as a video telephone , but it insisted that it is only in the prototype phase and denied a Los Angeles Times story that a field test of the technology would be announced next month ; it would neither confirm nor deny that it is teaming up with BellSouth Corp and Viacom International Inc in the interactive television work . |
| 26 | Does the Minister accept that it is feared in rural areas that a move towards privatisation would lead to services that require subsidies being axed , which would be a body blow to those rural areas and their opportunities for economic development ? |
| 27 | But if we turn to consider the [ … ] supply price with reference to a long period of time , we shall find that it is governed by a different set of causes , and with different results . |
| 28 | If you look , for example , at the case that has been made for the protection of the rainforest , you will find that it is peppered with every conceivable argument . |
| 29 | In particular , an organization that is given a task that is controversial and unpopular in many quarters , such as an organization charged to promote racial and sexual equality or one providing help to a stigmatized group such as vagrant alcoholics , may find that it is given an unclear mandate and is placed in a position in which it finds it hard to acquire ‘ legitimacy ’ for its activities . |
| 30 | I think we 'll find that it is drawing back . ’ |