Example sentences of "it [adj] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They tend to think of profits as being directly related to the volume of sales and find it confusing that for one year the reported sales are higher than the previous year but the reported net profit is lower . |
| 2 | In the future , Suffolk people will reflect on this decade and they will find it strange that at a time when environmental issues were more prevalent than ever both county and borough councils made such an effort to be seen to be environmentally friendly , that so much development took place on the green belt of Ipswich . |
| 3 | Was it possible that for the sake of prayer and guidance of souls he had a calling to the unmarried state ? |
| 4 | ( Is it possible that for some reason , such as disease , the manpower became too weak to handle these massive stones ? |
| 5 | In fact I think it possible that in the context of hi-jacking we are developing the anti-tank weapon — one which is largely a moral weapon and lies mainly in the hands of political authority . |
| 6 | How was it possible that in a single fraction of a second , and for the very first time , she discovered a motion of the arm and body so perfect and polished that it resembled a finished work of art ? |
| 7 | Was n't it possible that in years to come she and Susan , doomed to loneliness themselves , might feel very glad that they had done their best to make someone else less lonely ? |
| 8 | Is it possible that in 1943 or 1944 she would have told him , liberated Parisienne that she was , the details ? |
| 9 | I am not convinced that even in theory this is an accurate reflection of section 2 , for I think it possible that in many cases the investigation will have concluded at an earlier stage . |
| 10 | Mr is it possible that in fact the on this occasion you forgot to shout armed police ? |
| 11 | Is it possible that in 1985 the message has got through to more hearts and minds than ever before ? |
| 12 | Is , is , is , yes , is there another element to this though , that what in , in your new more difficult military situation you need to mobilize the mass of support behind you , which er essentially means mobilizing the poor peasants is it possible that within the May the fourth directive , although the poor could have done much better , they need not necessarily do very much better . |
| 13 | Ramsey felt it odd that in two Christian churches , working side by side in a crowded port , the ministers could not pray together or work together and could hardly speak together . |
| 14 | Dworkin makes it clear that as the question of what form the public hearing should assume is itself a policy question , it is , accordingly , beyond the remit of the courts to interfere with this . |
| 15 | The Department pledges its support to staff who work within the spirit of the Guidelines set out in this document , and will make it clear that as a Department we are not prepared to accept threats of intimidation and violence from that small number of clients who use such methods to manipulate their social environment or evade responsibility for their behaviour . |
| 16 | Now , in addition to that , and I do n't know if this is the source of the confusion , we 've also made provision in the ninety four five budget for another er camera site operation , except that it 's a lower figure because that does n't actually include the camera because we made it clear that as a result of the decision last time here we did n't want to create a , a permanent precedent that this committee always picked up the bill for the camera . |
| 17 | However we also made it clear that as one part of Labour 's wider democratic agenda , that we were sympathetic to looking at a plurality of electoral systems and that this might include legislating for a regional list system of proportional representation for future European elections . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , Randall left ambiguous the respective roles of Wilkins and Franklin , and this later led to dissension about the demarcation of the DNA research at King 's , but a letter of his to Franklin in 1950 makes it clear that on ‘ the experimental X-ray effort there would be for the moment only yourself and Gosling ’ . |
| 19 | He made it clear that at that point a judgement would be taken as to whether the draft treaty was acceptable or not . |
| 20 | But in a few more months , Joyce wrote his apologia and made it clear that despite their apparent freedom of choice , there was in reality only one decision that he could have taken : |
| 21 | A letter sent to shareholders by the club 's legal adviser , Gordon Marshall , makes it clear that during the action a number of concessions had been obtained from the Deans family . |
| 22 | His criticism of Oesterley 's work makes it clear that for Eliot a ritual 's origins may be as meaningless as is its present form . |
| 23 | Piloting recognition tests for films gathered in Study 1 made it clear that for subjects who know Cambridge moderately well recognizing a particular Cambridge junction from among distractors is relatively easy , thus to avoid ceiling effects it was decided to use multiple different films of various individual junctions as recognition stimuli . |
| 24 | But what had just happened had nothing to do with etiquette : Antonio Crepi had made it clear that for him , and by extension for the whole of the Perugia that mattered , Zen had ceased to exist . |
| 25 | They have made it clear that from October 1991 aid disbursements will be conditional on improvements in the human rights record of the Sri Lankan government . |
| 26 | I 'd made it clear that by the time I reached sixteen I wanted out — I could n't get out any sooner because no school in London would have me . |
| 27 | We made it clear that in our views , the Western capitalist countries and their allies are not so much concerned over the ‘ liberation of Kuwait ’ as they are over maintaining their monopoly over the oil and money of the Arab Gulf countries . |
| 28 | First of all , the case made it clear that in some circumstances statements of protest alone , however well argued and legitimate , were not sufficient to stop library censorship , particularly if it was widespread and co-ordinated . |
| 29 | Condition 4 makes it clear that in usual circumstances the carrier will not provide additional facilities such as mechanical loading and unloading devices ; these facilities are the customer 's responsibility . |
| 30 | ‘ I am also very glad that following advice in the normal way , you have been able to make it clear that in relation to subsequent allegations , I have acted within the guidance on the conduct of ministers . |