Example sentences of "it [be] [adj] [conj] [noun] has " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's surprising that Belgium has n't joined IBBY — there 's not much else to do in Belgium . ’ |
| 2 | It 's possible that wilko has learnt his lesson with Rocky and is showing this with Deane . |
| 3 | It 's nice that Jesus has got a birthday and that , just like a normal person . |
| 4 | 1001 Ways to Save the Planet deserves to experience the irony of being consumed in vast quantities — and it 's interesting that Penguin has been willing to launch it towards a mass readership sheathed in a determinedly dowdy recycled cover . |
| 5 | Looking back , it 's clear that Cave has always been obsessed with this latent other within each individual , that can be catalysed by an extreme predicament . |
| 6 | Here it 's obvious that money has been well spent on things that the animals actually need and use , with natural materials — and yet the public still gets a beautiful enclosure with good viewing facilities . ’ |
| 7 | It 's obvious that Morrissey has a lot to say and if people were n't ready to listen then they would n't be so successful . |
| 8 | Maybe it is good that Crilly has not arrived . |
| 9 | It does , however , mean that it is essential that PR has direct access to the board in order that PR programmes can be sanctioned and executed with full backing from top management . |
| 10 | It is correct that Britain has one of the lowest rates of corporate tax in the developed world , something from which our businesses , large and small , have benefited enormously over the years . |
| 11 | What is the Government 's attitude to Labour 's proposal for a defence diversification agency , bearing in mind that if it were so easy to create jobs through a Government agency , it is surprising that Labour has always left behind more unemployed than when it took office . |
| 12 | Our records of the Second Empire are far from complete , of course , but it is certain that Tarvaras has been isolated for thousands . |
| 13 | And it is apparent that Ackroyd has found himself in this manner — through exposure to Wilde , Eliot , and now Chatterton . |
| 14 | It is arguable that law has become such a potent anti-nuclear symbol because the use and aftermath of nuclear weapons pose such a threat to these values . |
| 15 | It is possible that lithium has an effect on the conduction in an axon by replacing the sodium ion and it is used in the treatment of depressive illness . |
| 16 | For example , I can say that Jones is behaving just like Smith did , and we now know that Smith behaved as he did because he had feelings of being persecuted , so it is possible that Jones has feelings of being persecuted , too . |
| 17 | It is possible that LIFESPAN has been unable to create the output file for the mail in your current directory as the VMS account has insufficient disk quota available ( or the device is full ) . |
| 18 | It is possible that Mexico has also been approached , but again there is no indication that the latter has proved responsive to such an offer . |
| 19 | It is pertinent that WHO has been sponsoring comparable field trials in African countries to confirm the adequacy of safety margins in case of inadvertent exposure to pest control agents . |
| 20 | If it is true that Britain has lost an empire but not yet found a role , Germany is a country with an identity crisis par excellence . |
| 21 | It is true that Moscow has failed to gain access to military facilities in Iraq , despite some ambiguity over the Soviet status in the port of Umm Qasr . |
| 22 | It is true that Merson has been handicapped by an ankle complaint , which has restricted his pre-season training . |
| 23 | Even if it is true that God has guided someone into a particular religion , there is no reason why the sociologist can not study the social processes involved in the person 's conversion ; and , conversely , even if it is not true that it was God who was responsible , that does not mean that the sociologist can not study the belief and the ( possibly very considerable ) consequences of that belief for the individual concerned and for society . |
| 24 | LAST September Paddy Ashdown dismissively described David Alton the Liberal Democrat MP for Mossley Hill thus : ‘ It is true that David has not played a large national part in the Liberal Democrats since our reform in 1988 . ’ |
| 25 | Either there has been a real fading , or ( more probably ) there has been an error in recording or interpretation , though it is true that Megrez has been suspected of slight variability in modern times . |
| 26 | To adopt this approach successfully it is important that government has a clearly defined framework for investment in research . |
| 27 | It is obvious that Alison has not recovered in any sense , and is just managing to keep out of hospital by maintaining her weight at a low but not life-threatening level . |
| 28 | Finally , where there are important divisions between kinds of culture and society , one might well expect systematic differences between the associated languages for example , it is likely that literacy has systematic effects on the lexical , syntactic and semantic structure of languages , even if these have never been spelt out ( see Goody , 1977 ) . |
| 29 | It is clear that AEA has two quite distinct missions : the first is to fulfil our traditional nuclear role by : |
| 30 | It is more difficult to judge how far the commitment has been translated into action , though it is clear that progress has been made in some areas . |