Example sentences of "it is [prep] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've always done it this way ’ is as daft an excuse for an industrial manufacturing process which has become fossilised as it is for saying that fossils have a life of their own . |
| 2 | Yet reading is of vital importance in language learning : it is through reading that children can acquire not only new vocabulary and structures , but a real ‘ feel ’ for the language . |
| 3 | It is through suffering that we learn obedience and trust , and God , in his wisdom , will lead us through stages of growth that feel like anything but growth to bring us to Christ-likeness . |
| 4 | It is worth emphasising that the period spanned by the lives of El Greco and Velázquez saw in Latin America the consolidation of colonial government and of the Christian church , the establishment of the Spanish language and of European culture , the introduction of new methods of exploitation of people and resources . |
| 5 | ‘ It is worth emphasising that a return to first principles of traffic safety for children does not give support for the abolition of shared space ’ approaches in favour of either ‘ Radburn'-style pedestrian-vehicle segregation … nor a return to Roads In Urban Areas ’ styles of design with relatively wide , fast roads in residential areas ’ |
| 6 | However , it is worth emphasising that the stages and the measures on which they are based are derived from a grammatical description and that , in the case of children with language difficulties , it can not be assumed that structurally based measures are predictive of functional skills ( Blank et al . |
| 7 | Indeed , it is worth emphasising that from the seller 's point of view , he is simply receiving ‘ money ’ ; he has no way of knowing when , where or how it was created . |
| 8 | I think it is worth emphasising that the agreement does not commit the Trust to anything more than regular monitoring of the Little Mill . |
| 9 | ( It is worth emphasising that the question is only one of judging whether the eye can determine the experimental set-up , and has nothing to do with the measurements . ) |
| 10 | It is worth emphasising that the technical and vocational aims and objectives are not simply by-products of history teaching and study but are an essential part of the historical method . |
| 11 | At this stage it is worth emphasising that we still deal with personal injury litigation under an adversarial system . |
| 12 | It is worth mentioning that the final is not so theoretical as perhaps believed : 40 per cent of the marks are allocated in the practical paper . |
| 13 | As a counter to this strongly argued view , it is worth mentioning that it assumes that ‘ biggest is best ’ and that the potential benefits of synergy will actually accrue . |
| 14 | It is worth mentioning that Professor Gower , in his study of investor protection in the financial markets — the so-called Gower Report — did not employ any significant law/economics analysis . |
| 15 | I do not by any means place all my faith in so-called Urtext editions , but it is worth mentioning that the Lea Pocket Scores of Beethoven 's works were reprints of the nineteenth-century Breitkopf und Härtel collection edition . |
| 16 | Although we can not go into the technicalities of Ohmann 's method , it is worth mentioning that the apparatus he used was that of an earlier version of Transformational Grammar , one which subsequently underwent profound modifications . " |
| 17 | On the other hand it is worth mentioning that the hypothesis of decreased left hemisphere activity during the hypnotic state has been supported by other workers using different response measures . |
| 18 | Though this section looks only at government regional policies and labour mobility policies , it is worth mentioning that these represent only a small proportion of government expenditure on aid to industry . |
| 19 | It is worth mentioning that the anticompetitive practice provisions of the Competition Act 1980 , which enable the Office of Fair Trading ( OFT to investigate particular practices and produce a report which may then lead to an MMC reference , have often involved vertical restraints . |
| 20 | In the first place Braque had detached himself from visual appearances to a much greater extent than Cézanne , who while he was obviously very much aware ( if only instinctively ) of the purely formal or abstract side of painting , relied nevertheless , in his still lifes and landscapes , on an exhaustive study of the ‘ motif ’ as his point of departure , although it is worth mentioning that in his articles Emile Bernard had suggested that Cézanne 's vision ‘ was much more in his brain than in his eye ’ . |
| 21 | It is worth considering that hands long formed to the sword , reins , shield and other military accoutrements become stiffened and calloused and it may be that the use of a small stylus or quill was physically difficult for Charles ; we can be in no doubt about his energy and intelligence . |
| 22 | It is worth considering that in part at least the malaise of modern society is the result of ill-considered and reckless policies of demolition and redevelopment . |
| 23 | Although this chapter is concerned with how you as an individual use power , it is worth considering that the global perspective on power is starting to change . |
| 24 | This is not the place to dwell on the answer to the first question , although it is worth remarking that there are significant nuances of opinion between Britain , on the one hand , and France and Germany , on the other , concerning the relationship with the United States . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , the fact remains , these are exceptional cases , and it is worth remarking that even in the two cases cited , the freeholders concerned had not come under any previous commitment to a rival candidate . |
| 26 | Reference has , of course , already been made to the fetva given by Burhaneddin Haydar Herevi sanctioning the execution of Seyh Bedreddin In Mehmed I 's reign : with respect to the general question of the nature of in the early state , it is worth remarking that no clue is given as to why Burhaneddin was selected beyond the fact that " he was at the side of Sultan Mehmed " in Serez when Seyh Bedreddin was brought . |
| 27 | In passing , it is worth remarking that the ultimate recipients of monopoly profits are the monopolist 's shareholders . |
| 28 | Having made the point , it is worth reflecting that by all reasonable standards , many headteachers and education officers are remarkably successful . |
| 29 | It is worth stressing that in each year since 1980 there have been examples of serious street disorder ( Benyon , 1984 ; Benyon and Solomos , 1987 ) . |
| 30 | Although a range of sociological theories has suggested that crime is due to deprivation of one sort or another , it is worth stressing that many middle-class children also engage in delinquent behaviour . |