Example sentences of "that it is [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , what is particularly regrettable about this requirement is that it is for largely financial accounting facilities to address such issues as : |
| 2 | Encouraged by the demonstrated efficacy of CBT with disorders such as depression , the social worker can consider that it is at least plausible to use similar strategies with other client difficulties . |
| 3 | For it is characteristic of an agnostic to hold that the existence of a god is a possibility in which there is no good reason either to believe or disbelieve ; and it is characteristic of an atheist to hold that it is at least probable that no god exists . |
| 4 | Its advantage is that it is at least problem-orientated and gives the impression ( which is sometimes justified ) that one has the means to solve it . |
| 5 | It follows that it is at least possible in principle to regard some versions of positivism and some versions of natural law as tending towards a middle position on my spectrum . |
| 6 | It is very difficult to understand the root causes of our failure to take industrial R&D seriously , but Sir Eric thinks that it is at least in part simply a reflection of a more pervasive anti-intellectualism which seems to run through British society . |
| 7 | ‘ Although this is not binding upon your Lordships , the United Kingdom is , of course , a party to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and it is urged that it is at least desirable that the domestic law of the United Kingdom should accord with the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights under the Convention . |
| 8 | The fact that it is at least possible that Molla Yegan and Fahreddin Acemi held office contemporaneously for part of their respective appointments is of some help in trying to establish the identity of de la Broquière 's " grand caliph " ; for although Molla Yegan should have been Mufti in 1433 if his Muftilik and that of Fahreddin Acemi are viewed as successive rather than contemporaneous , de la Broquière 's statement applies rather better to Fahreddin Acemi than to Molla Yegan for several reasons . |
| 9 | The placement of tonic stress is still to some extent an unsolved mystery ; it is clear , though , that it is at least partly determined by the larger context ( linguistic and non-linguistic ) in which the tone-unit occurs . |
| 10 | John Paris , in his biography of Davy published in 1825 , wrote : ‘ I have been able to present to the world a complete history of those proceedings which have so happily led to discovery of which it is not too much to say that it is at once the pride of science , the triumph of humanity and the glory of the age in which we live . ’ |
| 11 | The conglomerate is indeed becoming typical of technologically advanced cultural production in the advanced capitalist economies , and its theoretical importance , in this context , is that it is at once dominant in modern cultural production and yet , in its determining forms , radically separate from it ; its ‘ purpose ’ ( cf. page 67 ) now primarily elsewhere . |
| 12 | The nearest one can get to a level equivalence is to say that it is at roughly A Level standard , though it differs hugely from any actual A Level examination , and this comparison should not be taken too literally . |
| 13 | ‘ The reason people have been concerned about this case for so long is that it is about far bigger issues . |
| 14 | ‘ … the extent of the establishment is but barely sufficient for the exigencies of the County , and it can not be contended that it is on too large or extravagant a scale ; the number of patients constantly on the books of the Infirmary ; the high reputation which it has justly acquired under the excellent management of the medical and other officers belonging to it ; the strict economy which to the general satisfaction of the Governors has been observed in the ordinary expenditure of the House … call forcibly upon the County at large to hold out a protecting hand to save it from ruin which appears inevitably to have waited , if not averted by our timely interference . ’ |
| 15 | We shall see , in fact , that it is upon relatively clear and simple structural properties of the plot that an initial identification of a text as fabliau-like depends . |
| 16 | In this case I believe that it is by far preferable to accept the lack of consistency which we all know exists in papers marked by people , rather than suffer the strangling constraints on what and how we teach forced upon us when papers are marked by machine . |
| 17 | That it is by far the funniest and most essential comedy show on television ( fourth series imminent in October , kids ! ) is a sad indictment , I mean , all that money Roy Clarke earns … |