Example sentences of "that it is [adj] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the seasoning of foods is a very personal matter , I believe that it is preferable to add salt during cooking to benefit the developing flavours and not at the table , where the tongue will distinguish the undissolved salt added to the food . |
| 2 | Many writers have said that English word stress is so difficult to predict that it is best to treat stress placement as a property of the individual word , to be learned when the word itself is learned . |
| 3 | Any decent reform of this nonsense has to start with a firm recognition that it is better to take money from taxpayers than from consumers . |
| 4 | At the very least , it must surely be true that it is better to have NAB then no body at all ? |
| 5 | It will , I hope , become increasingly clear as this book progresses that it is essential to understand science as an historically evolving body of knowledge and that a theory can only be adequately appraised if due attention is paid to its historical context . |
| 6 | The point to recognize is , of course , that it is futile to waste time classifying studies into neat little boxes . |
| 7 | It will be appreciated that it is necessary to make payment for meals to the person who delivers when they ask for payment . |
| 8 | The article suggests that it is necessary to change the image of science ; I now think that it is necessary to change science . |
| 9 | But the truth is that it is easy to overdo jogging . |
| 10 | In general these proposals have not been implemented , indeed the government has stated that it is not convinced that it is right to fund litigation out of public funds , other than through the legal aid scheme , where points of law of general importance are involved . |
| 11 | The Radcliffe Report ( 1959 ) emphasised in stronger terms the problems associated with financial change and maintained that it is impossible to define money , because there is no clear criterion with which to determine those assets that are part of the money supply . |
| 12 | The crux of this argument is the contention that it is impossible to attribute consciousness of its interests to a class ( even to the revolutionary proletariat ) , without interpreting this notion in terms of the intentional properties of its members . |
| 13 | Miguel de Unamuno , the Spanish philosopher , made a point of this when he showed that it is impossible to separate belief from emotion : |
| 14 | The problem with any general behaviouristic account of knowledge is that it is impossible to make sense of any behavioural description without being able to make sense independently of statements about how the world is . |
| 15 | One researcher asks the following question : ‘ When the hero guns down the villain , do children really learn that a crime does not pay ’ or do they learn that it is good to kill –bad people ’ ? ’ |
| 16 | Second , so many features of our own constitutional practices are debated one at a time in just this way , that it is implausible to claim conventionalism as a good interpretation of the process by which our legal culture shifts and develops over time . |
| 17 | that it is crucial to draw attention to fundamental assumptions in our society , and to keep open for pupils the options of accepting , modifying or rejecting these views ( Chapters 2 – 3 ) ; 2. that the purpose of RE is pupils ' self-education , engaging in depth upon the meaning and truth-claims of religions in a way which is relevant to their total experience of life ( Chapter 4 ) ; 3. that space needs to be given in which pupil involvement has a chance to develop , together with creativity , a sense of wonder and the cultivation of inner quietness ( Chapters 5 and 6 ) ; 4. that teachers need to model a positive , fair and balanced approach to the diversity of religious traditions and outlooks , and the controversy which these can generate ( Chapter 8 ) ; 5. that in a spirit of critical affirmation it is important to develop skills of evaluation and criteria for discernment ( Chapters 7 and 9 ) ; 6. that the crucial need is to put persons first , to establish genuine relationships which are affirming of pupils , believing that they have something to give , and so listening to them and responding to them — and in the light of this to encourage their capacity for self-assessment ( Chapter 10 ) ; 7. that the distinction between education and dogmatic teaching is all-important and that , provided this is borne in mind , opportunities for stillness and possible worship can be an invaluable aid to education ( Chapters 6 and 11 ) ; 8. that RE can relate in a dynamic and creative way to all other areas of the curriculum ( Chapters 12 and 13 ) . |
| 18 | But experience has shown that it is possible to create elite , high-calibre long-term support teams if they are given the right leadership and training , an attractive physical environment to work from , good pay and conditions of service and , crucially , a set of realistic objectives about what they are trying to achieve . |
| 19 | However , this debate is over-simple since it is predicated on an assumption that censorship would work , that it is possible to stop pornography by state action . |
| 20 | We saw in Chapter 1 that it is possible to link videocassette and videodisc machines to computers . |
| 21 | His use of frequency of occurrence and distribution data to identify scientific and technical terms suggests that it is possible to characterise text types according to the collocational behaviour of these terms . |
| 22 | Assuming that it is possible to collect information about estimated and subjective risk from subjects , it will clearly be of interest to see to what extent other variables are related to these measures . |
| 23 | These parties claim that they are different from traditional Marxist — Leninist parties in three major respects : they are critical of certain aspects of the Soviet Union ; they are independent of Moscow so that if they were to win an election and form a government they would not be Soviet puppets ; and they claim that it is possible to implement communism and maintain traditional democratic institutions . |
| 24 | They suggest that it is possible to use satellite remotely sensed data to help inform population mapping by allowing cross-area estimation and some element of areal disaggregation . |
| 25 | If you provoke anger in others in this way , part of the explanation is that it is possible to use provocation as a means of releasing your own tension by way of another person . |
| 26 | But the problem with the idea that it is possible to dismiss structuralism and poststructuralism with the charge that they neglect history is that this argument itself neglects history . |
| 27 | But he or she will then have to demonstrate that it is possible to make sense when using such terms . |
| 28 | He effortlessly produced a bavarois whips and showing that it is possible to make meringue from egg white when some yolk is present . |
| 29 | There are many arguments as to which strategy is best ( de Nevers et al. , 1977 ; Wall , 1976b ) but increasingly the conclusion being reached is that it is possible to make use of the advantages of two or more strategies . |
| 30 | At one level an attractive feature of goods subject to excise taxes is that they are relatively price-inelastic in demand , so that it is possible to raise taxation appreciably and increase revenue , because with only a modest effect on the level of consumption there is a small excess burden . |