Example sentences of "it [is] [adv] [vb pp] that " in BNC.

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1 It 's already heard that he and Greg Price had been friends .
2 It 's already known that women who take the contraceptive pill are much less likely to develop it .
3 So , it 's strongly recommended that you cultivate the use of chromatic notes which resolve to diatonic ones , both scalic and chordal .
4 It 's generally assumed that those who forego the pleasures of the flesh are elderly , but a report in the American Journal of Psychiatry reveals that 75pc are under the age of 38 .
5 It 's generally accepted that the ideal fitness programme is one that will push your pulse to between 70 and 80 per cent of your maximum heart rate and keep it there for at least 20 minutes , at least three times a week .
6 It 's generally accepted that oral contraceptives may slightly enlarge a woman 's breasts , but in a few exceptional cases it has had other more alarming side-effects .
7 It 's generally accepted that the herbage of this area produces the milk necessary to make a fine cheese .
8 It 's generally agreed that , given the constraints imposed by its function and the site , the power station is rather successful architecturally . ’
9 It 's generally agreed that I need looking after .
10 It 's also suggested that we have to look at the funding issues .
11 Yet it 's also claimed that a primary characteristic of the play is that element of redemption which binds together all your work .
12 And it 's also known that breastmilk has a special value for babies most vulnerable to infection , for example those born ill or premature .
13 To the actress Joyce Carey in the crowded foyer of the Old Vic : ‘ But Joyce , it 's well known that Shakespeare sucked Bacon dry . ’
14 It 's well known that the universe verse is infinite .
15 It 's well known that Maurice likes a night out but the media attention he gets in Britain makes it difficult for him to enjoy it .
16 This is an affect well known in some domesticated animals like sheep , it 's well known that if sheep are , if , if , if , if ewes are well fed just before they mate , they 're much more likely to er to twin than if they 're er not given extra food supplement and nowadays erm farmers wh wh who , who breed sheep for lambing er frequently feed , feed ewes a special diet just before er conception for that very reason , the rate of twinning increases .
17 I have a reputation for honesty and fair trading — and it 's well known that I do n't have any truck with shady deals , ’ she informed him bluntly .
18 It 's normally thought that within the utilitarian tradition people should be required to vote on their interests .
19 So it 's normally thought that within the utilitarian tradition , voters are required to vote their interests and then the democratic procedure tells us where the general happiness lies roughly speaking .
20 There 's been plenty of speculation about what will be cut and what will be taxed , but it 's widely expected that there 'll be a big increase in the scope of VAT .
21 No crimes are ever reported in the Magic Kingdom — and it 's even rumoured that fatal heart attack victims are smuggled out so their deaths can be recorded off the park .
22 Yeah and all you know things that it 's almost expected that you will understand what they mean .
23 They , it 's always argued that the parish councils are closest to local people , they had an out and out objection from the Parish Council initially they have subsequently written to me twice in November moderating that position and saying subject to safeguards they they no longer have an outright objection .
24 It 's always said that Oppositions rarely win elections , Governments lose them .
25 The SD at Stuttgart recorded a comment , said to be frequently encountered in differing variants : ‘ It 's always claimed that the Führer has been sent to us from God .
26 In fact it 's sometimes said that it 's one of the very great privileges of the public is that they can , by dint of writing something , and putting it in an envelope with a stamp on it , get it to arrive on an editor 's desk , and have the editor at least give a cursory glance if not a more serious glance at what 's going on , so it 's a privilege and it 's an opportunity in that case .
27 It 's sometimes thought that this type of research takes place mainly in universities and institutes of higher education .
28 anything or it 's never published that if you go self-employed
29 He 'd walk me home from school and it 's often said that he carried my ballet shoes , which sounds kind of romantic , but he actually did sometimes , if I was carrying a whole load of things .
30 And that 's true , but it 's often forgotten that some of us on this side of the fence also play professionally — they say teachers are failed musicians and I suppose many people see music journalists as those not good enough even to teach !
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