Example sentences of "[pers pn] is ironic that this " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is ironic that this should have happened under a Government so strongly committed to decentralisation , privatisation and the reduction of the role of the state . |
| 2 | It is ironic that this prohibition occurred at the same time as several well-designed research studies were clearly demonstrating the efficacy of ECT . |
| 3 | Of those influences incomparably the most important was the spread of nationalism ; it is ironic that this European idea was eventually to be the most powerful force undermining Europe 's colonial supremacy . |
| 4 | Life has been removed from Parsonian systems theory , and it is ironic that this has occurred because he found no place in his scheme for the death instincts ! |
| 5 | It is ironic that this dual aspiration , on the one hand , to give back autonomy to the socialist writer to produce works which balance the twin exigencies of socialist ideology and literary form , and on the other , to generate as a consequence a fuller , richer , more complex depiction of reality , marks , in fact , a return to the spirit of Nizan 's understanding of socialist realism in France in the 1930s . |