Example sentences of "it [adj] [that] [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | Gaullists considered it normal that the state control television , the ‘ shadow in the cave ’ of a growing number of bourgeois drawing rooms and even working-class and peasant breakfast or dining rooms : — ‘ la télévision , c'est le gouvernement dans la salle à manger ’ , remarked one Gaullist minister . |
3 | Linguists will find it odd that the terms semantics and pragmatics are never mentioned in the book . |
4 | 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 ? |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | The interpretation of the rule makes it clear that a complaints procedure must be established . |
8 | The Court of Appeal made it clear that the Chief Constable had authority to intervene , but it declined to compel him to do so . |
9 | When it , and the Government can produce fifty pieces of legislation affecting local government since nineteen seventy nine , I have n't been here since nineteen seventy nine thankfully , so I have to analyze everything , but they always landed our the ma the major ones and , so for example erm , it was the Local government Unit that produced the initial response of the Poll Tax , what strategy the Council should adopt er , the Council wo n't distance approach , we wanted to make it clear that the Poll Tax was a Government erm , it was a Government initiative and it was being forcedly on us and that was the way , did that effect it , that was a guided and then there was the nineteen eight nine local Government Housing Act , which I 'm sure many of you . |
10 | Keown is fit again after knee surgery and Taylor has already made it clear that the Everton defenders is one of the key figures in his plans . |
11 | R.3 makes it clear that the company secretary need not be a solicitor or an RFL . |
12 | 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 . ) |
13 | The Bournemouth decision made it clear that the Unity Campaign 's success had been more apparent than real . |
14 | I want to make it clear that the cricket committee did not put forward Richardson 's name unanimously , as some have suggested . |
15 | make it clear that the contract letter is sent by the VC |
16 | In this respect the operation was a failure ; Schwarzkopf made it clear that the air phase of the war would be continued until it had achieved its objectives , and that the timing and location of any land-based offensive would be in accordance with allied war plans and would be made by the US President . |
17 | He made it clear that the Employment Secretary , Michael Howard , was not prepared to see Community action in the field of industrial relations and that Community legislation should not push up labour costs in such a way as to reduce the ability of business to compete in world markets . |
18 | But at home Mr Yeltsin 's main rival , the parliamentary chairman Ruslan Khasbulatov , made it clear that the power struggle was far from over , and outside the parliament , thousands of protesters took to the streets both for and against the president . |
19 | Lynda Chalker , the transport minister said : ‘ I wish to make it clear that the county council has my confidence in its ability to undertake this particularly demanding role … ’ |
20 | This was a separate transaction from the auction and the auctioneers had not made it clear that the exemption clause was being incorporated into it . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | Is not it important that the Northern Ireland Office should ensure that full information is available to the public on the extent of the deadly arsenal that the terrorists had with them on that occasion , which included AK47 assault rifles and Dsh heavy machine-guns ? |
23 | All this makes it unlikely that the alliance ante-dated 440 , when Corinth , for whatever reason , voted against war with Athens over Samos ( p. 46 ) , i.e. when surface relations were still good . |
24 | Is it that they will not be bothered by maximum working hours or minimum wages , or is it just that the trade union movement in this country has been crippled by repressive legislation over the past 12 years ? |
25 | Nor is it surprising that a discussion paper that extolled counselling while assuming its efficacy was greeted with some hostility . |
26 | A wind large enough to make it certain that no Yule feast could be held , and small enough to allow the workmen and their womenfolk and the hall people who were over already to cross to the shore and spend Christmas with a clear conscience at home … |
27 | The effort in this makes it expedient that an output form is found as quickly as possible . |