Example sentences of "it is [v-ing] that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is fitting that a hero so maladroit should be a Malaprop as well . |
| 2 | Stepan Trofimovich Verkhovensky is the most suggestive of all Dostoevsky 's accidental men , and it is fitting that the phrase itself should never be used of or by him . |
| 3 | It is fitting that the river should , according to legend , be associated with Tamara , a beautiful nymph who in ancient times lived in a cave deep below the earth . |
| 4 | ‘ Lord , ’ he said , ‘ it is fitting that the ambassador should be your man , and not mine . ’ |
| 5 | In a university which aims to teach every official European language , it is fitting that the Centre for Speech Technology Research ( CSTR ) , Europe 's largest research institute dealing with speech-based human/computer interface , is a partner in the ESPRIT 2 ( POLYGLOT ) project to build multilingual speech input/output systems for seven of the major European languages . |
| 6 | It is unsurprising that the cinema should have sought legal parity with the theatre on questions of obscenity , which it did in a petition forwarded to the Home Secretary by the BBFC in 1977 on behalf of the Cinema Consultative Committee , which comprised delegates from the film industry and from all the associations of local licensing authorities in Great Britain and Northern Ireland . |
| 7 | It is unsurprising that the lawyers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries should have been attracted by a contractual analysis of the company . |
| 8 | Since most versions of legal theory are at least partial visions of law it is unsurprising that the criminal law will throw up both confirmations and refutations of most legal theories . |
| 9 | At the end of long conversations , it is unsurprising that the regulator can feel quite sympathetic to the problems as perceived by the regulated . |
| 10 | It is telling that a theory unable to recognise the nature of power relationships in today 's society , should exhibit a similar incapacity in its assessment of ancient history . |
| 11 | The difficulty in finding such variables is in itself a measure of how internally divergent BV actually is , and it is striking that the variables that show the sharpest patterns of social variation are subsets within the larger sets . |
| 12 | It is striking that the form reserved for inanimates is used , as is appropriate when the item qualified is a relation , despite the presence of the animate noun [ m . |
| 13 | ( It is striking that the one major Catholic foundation in this field , Westminster Cathedral , has already been dubbed ‘ le plus latin des choeurs anglais ’ by a French reviewer . |
| 14 | None can work well in isolation and for that reason it is reassuring that the CBI , in pressing its case for the TECs to be the local regulators of vocational training , stresses the importance of the young person 's ( and the adult worker 's ) " personal file " , building on the existing good practice of records of achievement in schools . |
| 15 | It is finding that the phrase ‘ equal opportunity ’ is usually a meaningless compromise ; if the good things of life are really dependent on opportunity — which everyone knows they are not ; would the rich and powerful really be so careless ? — what human agency has the hubris to imagine it can deal out opportunity in a fair or even meritorious fashion ? |
| 16 | It is anticipating that the majority of customers will not require a full hardware-software combination but will likely need R/3 Live built round their existing systems . |
| 17 | It is anticipating that the majority of customers will not require a full hardware-software combination but will likely need R/3 Live built round their existing systems . |
| 18 | It is revealing that the British and American governments are reluctant to accept as illegal and inhumane in international conflicts weapons with which they are willing to arm their police forces for use against their own people . |