Example sentences of "it [adv] [adj] that [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it so likely that that man , however much he may have been struck by your beauty and gaiety , Miss Jonathan , would have at once decided to assassinate your future husband ? ’ |
| 2 | Research has shown that good oxygenation makes it less likely that any rogue cells will survive to form a life-endangering tumour . |
| 3 | They say that the police could stop the violence overnight if the Special Patrol Group was assigned to patrol the area , or if the Home Office made it sufficiently clear that this kind of activity must stop . |
| 4 | I find it totally unacceptable that another football club manager is not allowed into a ground to do a job . |
| 5 | Young people are not alone in having problems with friendships , but the psycho-social issues that confront adolescents make it more certain that such difficulties are likely to be of concern to them . |
| 6 | This approach could involve studying the statistical distribution of child abuse , or comparing a group of known child abusers with a non-abusing control group , in order to try to identify and isolate some of the factors that make it more likely that some parents will abuse their children . |
| 7 | But once some set of rules has been established in this way , we might well think it more important that these rules be publicly regarded as settled , so that people can plan accordingly , than that they be the best rules that could have been found ; this provides a reason why courts should leave the rule untouched even when they think the wrong choice was made in the first instance . " |
| 8 | Is it similarly possible that these emotions are not a consequence of the dream but of the apparently haphazard interaction between midbrain and hindbrain activity during REM sleep ? |
| 9 | But six shots and a man in intensive care , ’ he added , ‘ makes it reasonably certain that some friend of yours was involved . ’ |
| 10 | We regard it as unlikely that many teachers in the near future will be able to handle facilities of this range and power amid the pressures of the classroom . |
| 11 | Linguists have a tendency to regard it as axiomatic that all teachers — including teachers of subjects other than languages — need to be informed about language . |
| 12 | The British Government professed to ‘ have always regarded it as desirable that these elections should be held and have advised the Government of the Republic of [ South ] Vietnam to enter into consultation with the Viet Minh authorities [ sic ] in order to ensure that all the necessary conditions obtain for a free expression of the national will ’ . |
| 13 | The stone was placed within a specially designed chair in Westminster Abbey to make it symbolically clear that all coronations of English kings henceforth should be regarded as simultaneous coronations of the kings of Scotland . |
| 14 | It is noticeable that a number of other politicians abroad have made it perfectly clear that this country becomes a more attractive place for investment — and therefore for jobs and prosperity — because we are not committed to the costs of the social chapter . |
| 15 | ‘ In publicly announcing the withdrawal of its remaining occupation forces from Korea , the US should make it unmistakably clear that this step in no way constitutes a lessening of US support of the Government of the Republic of Korea , but constitutes rather another step towards the regularisation by the US of its relations with that Government and a fulfilment on the part of the US of the relevant provision of the GA Resolution [ UN General Assembly ] of December 12 , 1948 . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ None the less , ’ he said , turning again to face them with a calm and decided countenance , ‘ I think it indeed needful that this march should come into the justiciar 's hands rather than Earl Richard 's . |
| 17 | Terrorist offences , which do not fit easily into systems of justice devised for other purposes , make it doubly important that this ideal is preserved . |
| 18 | In the first place , the personality of the new king made it quite certain that any dispute would be conducted in a new way . |
| 19 | She thought it quite wonderful that this kind man , who was not married , who had a job , who was on Lambeth Council 's housing list , actually wanted Tina to go and live with him . |
| 20 | The King , however , was disinclined to anything other than an exchange of courtesies , once again making it quite clear that any attempt to detach Prussia from the rest of Germany was a fruitless exercise . |
| 21 | Ms Rhind said : ‘ I find it quite incredible that any authority or any member of an authority has to sink to such depths in order to try to make a case . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ You made it pretty clear that any attraction you felt for me was unwilling . |
| 23 | Stuart Hyslop , of DTC , said he wanted to make it very clear that neither bus company was complaining about the idea of slowing traffic down on the estate . |