Example sentences of "[verb] it [adj] [that] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government have made it clear that a decision on the site would be premature at this stage . |
| 2 | The contrast between nature and architecture here was too much indeed for the ungenerous Hippolyte Taine , who came here on his Journey to the Pyrenees in the middle of the last century and wrote that ‘ One finds it grotesque that a bit of hot water should have brought cuisine and civilization into these declivities . ’ |
| 3 | I find it strange that a wife , a queen , a princess with responsibilities , who had been informed in no uncertain fashion that her husband was to join her , fails to do anything when he does not arrive . |
| 4 | ‘ Alan is a great player but I find it strange that a Scot is preferred to an Irishman and the more matches I win , the bigger the snub will be . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Alan is a great player but I find it strange that a Scot is preferred to an Irishman and the more matches I win , the bigger the snub will be . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I find it strange that a report is being talked about when no-one was sent off , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Andrew says if people find it unbelievable that a nurse could ever kill then they should relise that the situation in Bosnia is unbleievable . |
| 8 | One , architect Robin Pearce-Boby , 62 , said : ‘ I find it dreadful that a man in his position could do something so awful . |
| 9 | I find it indefensible that a bed manager — especially for neurosurgery , a specialty in which admissions are often urgent — is allowed to go to lunch without a bleep and that no one covers for him . |
| 10 | The invitation should make it clear that a selection procedure is in progress and that all that is required are details , including prices and , if appropriate , samples of products for evaluation , the result of which might be an invitation to conduct trials . |
| 11 | Mr. Simon Hughes As the Minister 's first answer made it clear that a price differential has been a major cause of the substantial increase in sales of unleaded petrol , and as the Secretary of State is on record as saying that the market has a role to play in cutting the use of petrol across the market in the United Kingdom , by what figures does the Department currently estimate that petrol prices will increase over the next few years ? |
| 12 | The significance of Rookes v. Barnard was that it made it clear that a threat of a breach of contract was unlawful for this purpose but the criticism has been made ( and this indeed was the opinion of the Court of Appeal ) that if intimidation is extended to threats to break contracts ‘ it would overturn or outflank some elementary principles of contract law , ’ notably the doctrine of privity of contract , which holds that one who is not a party to a contract can not found a claim upon it or sue for breach of it . |
| 13 | Reynolds held talks with leading politicians on Feb. 19 , in an attempt to find cross-party agreement on the case , but made it clear that a referendum to dilute the constitutional clause on abortion would be avoided if possible . |
| 14 | However , the Un Secretary-General , Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , made it clear that a conference would take place only if sufficient progress towards an outline agreement had previously been made . |
| 15 | Evidence in favour of this interpretation of the phrase ‘ the physical environment ’ is found in DoE Circular 55/77 ( now withdrawn ) which made it clear that a statement of pollution policy could appropriately form part of a structure plan , albeit necessarily of a general nature since they are policies stated by an authority ( county council ) responsible neither for air pollution control nor for most development control . |
| 16 | If intended as a last step prior to dismissal , such a warning should describe the nature of the offence and make it clear that a repetition will cause you to be dismissed . |
| 17 | On the contrary , I think it admirable that a gentlewoman should think seriously of such matters . ’ |
| 18 | The sense in which we can talk of the meaning of an individual sentence is not determinate enough to make it possible that a sentence be unrevisably true in virtue of that meaning . |
| 19 | I agree with Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. that the effect of section 8 is to make it clear that a child of 16 or 17 years of age has the same capacity as an adult to consent to surgical medical or dental treatment which would otherwise constitute a trespass . |
| 20 | Paragraph 2.9 of the Code of Practice to the Act makes it clear that a person can be detained on the basis of a known history of mental illness following non-compliance with medication . |
| 21 | Subsection ( 3 ) makes it clear that a licence may be suspended not only on the grounds of the actings of the licence-holder but also on grounds attributable to the actings of persons frequenting the premises or the vicinity of the premises . |
| 22 | The judgement of Upjohn , J. in Smeaton v Ilford Corporation , however , makes it clear that a water authority , being a statutory undertaker , will not be liable for creating a nuisance unless it was also negligent . |
| 23 | Page 382 of ’ Erskine May ’ concerns the citing of documents not before the House and makes it clear that a Minister may not ’ read or quote from a despatch or other state paper not before the House , unless he is prepared to lay it upon the Table . ’ |
| 24 | It makes it clear that a shopkeeper who sells cigarettes to young people can not simply say that he did not know that he was doing so . |
| 25 | Condition 13 makes it clear that a claim brought against the carrier by the customer is subject to strict time limits ; in the case of loss from or damage to a package , the customer must advise the carrier of his claim in writing within three days and the claim must be made within seven days . |
| 26 | It makes it likely that a convention will be established to follow the authoritatively designated act . |