Example sentences of "[vb base] it [adj] that the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Viewed in this light we consider it important that the movement as a whole should adopt a balanced approach to the problems that have arisen .
2 For one thing , the repetition helps to reinforce whatever suggestion he may have been given ; and , for another , I consider it vital that the patient realizes he is playing an extremely significant part in his own cure .
3 Given the widespread fragility of confidence in the economic recovery , the directors believe it prudent that the dividend for the year to March 1993 should reflect that year 's results and not be presumptuous as to any future economic upturn .
4 I find it sad that the business of getting practitioners , medical or alternative , to provide evidence of the efficacy of the treatments they use is left largely to consumer organisations , and to a financially hard pressed charity like HealthWatch , which has to step in where the professionals seem afraid to tread .
5 I find it odd that the position has so changed compared with 15 months ago when I became Secretary of State , when some Conservative Members were alleging that standards had declined and Opposition Members were denying those allegations .
6 Er this being so , I find it extraordinary that the Government has brought forward this proposal .
7 I find it extraordinary that the EDDR , planned for over 50 years , has been blocked by the city council .
8 Ii also find it appalling that the commission should discriminate between farmers so blatantly .
9 I also find it incredible that the demise of Aldershot has not led to a positive reaction to assist the smaller clubs .
10 These events make it likely that the mobilization of troops on the western borders was designed to keep order among the empire 's non-Russians rather than to prepare the ground for an invasion of central Europe .
11 They would have to enter the town , and make their entry apparent to the besiegers , make it clear that the siege could be withstood for long yet , a new spirit of defiance engendered in the defenders .
12 The National Criteria for GCSE mathematics make it clear that the curriculum must be differentiated .
13 Two subsequent recommendations make it clear that the public ( not just clinicians or infertile people ) must have a voice in setting these priorities .
14 These actual and possible consequences make it clear that the course adopted by the judge was wrong .
15 The CECOS surveyors make it clear that the drinking problem which most concerned them and was undoubtedly of serious proportions in their sample , was by no means confined to men ( indeed their condemnations of drinking mothers are particularly sharp ) but one can certainly detect a mainly female temperance counter-current in the survey , apparently connected to religious observance.21 ( A male informant remembered during the inter-war period " a lady keyboard operator [ who ] used to get out her Bible and have a wee read " , at idle moments . )
16 make it clear that the contract letter is sent by the VC
17 It is a matter of construction of the contract and the surrounding circumstances as to whether the prohibition is intended merely to place the vendor in breach of contract and exposed to a claim for damages or whether the prohibition is intended to render the assignment ineffective and make it clear that the contract is personal .
18 Second , the many judicial references to costs ‘ properly incurred ’ make it clear that the court will examine the costs , charges and expenses sought to be added to the security and disallow those that it considers have not been ‘ properly incurred . ’
19 Customs state , in their official publication , Single Market Report ( Special Edition , Christmas 1992 ) , that amendments to the draft regulations make it clear that the register refers only to temporary movements , ie for a period not longer than two years .
20 These specifically make it clear that the clinic may not disclose that someone has had the test , or its result , without that person 's consent , except to a doctor , or a doctor 's assistant ( and even then only in connection with , and for the purpose of the treatment or prevention of spread of HIV infection ) .
21 We are readily persuaded to postpone any criticisms we may have of his mode of telling the story , and the next two lines make it clear that the tale is only there to bring out a moral .
22 If the centrality of the military is clear in the relatively open policy-making process of the United States , it is less so in Britain and the old Soviet Union ( and now Russia ) , whose continued high spending levels on the military make it clear that the military will be no less active if and when it perceives its interests threatened .
23 Finally , RSC Ord 18 , r8(4) and CCR Ord 6 , r1A make it clear that the plaintiff must specifically plead a claim for interest even though it is awarded automatically in personal injury claims unless the defendant can show good reason ( see para 1.66 et seq ) .
24 As Mr Wolski ate his usual morning toast and marmalade he was listening to a spokesman from the RSPB saying , ‘ We think it possible that the eagle will try to find high ground .
25 A poll of 400 of the world 's leading climatologists organized by Greenpeace has shown that almost half think it possible that the greenhouse effect might reach the point of no return in the near future , and one in seven think it probable .
26 They think it unlikely that the company would sell the properties without vacant possession .
27 Because of this mutual enthusiasm , observers of English law think it unlikely that the commission will want to change the jury system much .
28 Thus , I think it clear that the declaration as granted can not stand : a conclusion in which the Divisional Court would undoubtedly have concurred , but for the weight attached to Ex parte Saunders , 138 N.L.J. 243 .
29 But may I point out to you , Dr. Briant , that I for one — and I think it likely that the audience feels much as I do — find the material you are giving us in so admirably concise and ordered a manner is not as intelligible as it might be , since we are ordinary simple souls ?
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