Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] that it [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It is both salutary and stimulating to show that it has roots in people 's minds .
2 In many countries besides America , public opinion strongly supports capital punishment — undeterred by the fact that no criminological study has ever been able to prove that it reduces crime .
3 India , which in the 1960s led the fight in international agencies against rigid copyright rules , was the first to realise that it needed copyright and patents to protect and regularise its own emerging knowledge-based industries .
4 When chemists vapourised potassium nitrate and trapped it an argon matrix , however , they were surprised to discover that it contained molecules with the chemical formula KNO 3 .
5 This may be sufficient to show that it lacks authority over me in those other areas .
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