Example sentences of "is [adv] [adj] that it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is jolly sad that it has come to this but I am not surprised , ’ she said last night . |
| 2 | If it is to be baled or carted it is most important that it is well and evenly dried . |
| 3 | It is most likely that it had to do with the extra fasts practised by the Pharisees and in this case the disciples of John the Baptist , who may have been mourning the death of their leader . |
| 4 | ‘ It is wholly appropriate that it should be our final testimony to the qualities that prevail in state education and the resilience and adaptability of ‘ ordinary ’ children . ’ |
| 5 | Thus it is clear that if the change is a realistic one and the company is justifiably convinced that it must be imposed , you will be extremely vulnerable if you do not fall in line . |
| 6 | The manner in which the human race has , over many centuries ascribed to Jesus Christ a host of teachings , miraculous powers of healing , identity with a'-god ’ , the power of survival after death and other extraordinary qualities , consistently supports the contention , reiterated herein , that humanity is instinctively aware that it must itself produce its God . |
| 7 | Since the report is expected to form the basis for an investigation and possible action by the Serious Fraud Office , it is highly unlikely that it will be published in full . |
| 8 | It may be a hybrid — if so , it is highly unlikely that it will produce young . |
| 9 | Article 6 has never been implemented and it is highly unlikely that it would be used in this way , especially as the consequence would be to release the offending State from those Charter principles that were not deemed to be customary international law . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , few governments believe that the social cost of monopoly is sufficiently small that it can safely be ignored . |
| 11 | Nevertheless it is doubtful whether the vegetation in which it occurs is sufficiently well-developed that it could be identified with the community described in the NVC . |
| 12 | The argument is sufficiently clear that it can be formulated mathematically , and the equilibrial balance calculated . |
| 13 | At the start of the contact the need to be stroked is so strong that it suppresses their fear . |
| 14 | Indeed , the research evidence is so strong that it is now reflected in the high incidence of work teams , ‘ away days ’ for functional groups and courses in team-building . |
| 15 | Indeed , some have argued that the ‘ traditionalism of his general philosophy is so strong that it virtually disables him from that critical rationalism which is essential for the appraisal of particular traditions ’ . |
| 16 | Moreover , the strength of the kink is so low that it will often fail when the glider is only just off the ground . |
| 17 | The Cross is descending in the south-west , followed by the Pointers ; Canopus is so low that it will probably not be seen , and from parts of Australia and South Africa it actually sets . |
| 18 | Pliny 's account naturally did n't go into the details of the mechanics of the eruption , but his account is so illuminating that it is quite clear what happened , and similar eruptions , blasting large volumes of pumiceous ash into the air are still called Plinian eruptions . |
| 19 | You may also have to pay an extra charge if you take equipment back with more damage than when you took it out ( make sure any damage is recorded when you pick up the goods ) and if the equipment is so dirty that it requires cleaning . |
| 20 | Coleridge has transformed himself , from his former quietness , to an aggressive god , that has the might to see everything , and his everything is so terrible that it would be best to hide your eyes in awe . |
| 21 | The rather coy nude which featured on the catalogue cover is so uncharacteristic that it was possibly suggested by Zborowski , to attract attention . |
| 22 | The poison they produce from their skin is so lethal that it can paralyse a bird or a monkey immediately . |
| 23 | It is so tiny that it can live inside an empty clam shell whence it emerges to seize minute soldier crabs . |
| 24 | Ellis 's sense of the quiet solidarity between women , and of the bonds of love that bind the generations together , is so sure that it more than compensates for the novel 's occasional listlessness . |
| 25 | But no human knowledge is so certain that it needs no presuppositions . |
| 26 | They had a report in nineteen seventy six called Nestle in developing countries where they said , The volume of our purchases of cocoa and coffee is so vast that it influences the market of those commodities . |
| 27 | These days the practice of story-telling is so rare that it has acquired the status of an art form . |
| 28 | There is an argument that treason is a more serious offence , since it strikes at the very foundations of the State and its social organizations , but treason is so rare that it is surely permissible to treat homicide as the most serious form of crime . |
| 29 | The pattern is so simple that it hardly seems worth studying . |
| 30 | This algorithm is so simple that it is often not taken seriously . |