Example sentences of "it [is] [adj] [to-vb] [that] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Polyester and polyurethane are quick-drying paints and it 's surprising to learn that bodies can be buffed only hours after their final coating . |
2 | It 's reasonable to suppose that people go into this business in search of fame . |
3 | ‘ It 's strange to think that pile of tapes is all that 's left of Nicola 's life , is n't it ? ’ |
4 | It 's impossible to answer that questions , Bill , really . |
5 | It 's odd to realise that Albert Barnes , the cantankerous Pennsylvanian who amassed one of the greatest collections of Matisse , Picasso and Cézanne , went to school with both William Glackens and John Sloan . |
6 | Clear seems to be all the rage in the US these days , what with Miller Brewing coming out with a beer that not only tastes watered , but actually looks like water , a Clear Tab from the Coca Cola Co and Pepsico pushing something called Pepsi Crystal , so it 's nice to see that IBM Corp being right up there with the trend — enter one of those hallowed and long-standing computer rooms these days and like as not you 'll be able to see right across it with no Big Iron to impede the view — the transparent mainframe . |
7 | Clear seems to be all the rage these days , what with Miller Brewing coming out with a beer that not only tastes watered , but actually looks like water , a Clear Tab from the Coca Cola Co and Pepsi Co pushing something called Pepsi Crystal , so it 's nice to see that IBM Corp is right up there with the trend — enter one of those hallowed and long-standing computer rooms these days and like as not you 'll be able to see right across it with no Big Iron to impede the view — the transparent mainframe . |
8 | But when times are hard , when you 're upset by things that er are wrong with patients or by things that have happened to you , then it 's nice to know that God 's always there for you . |
9 | I 've always done plenty of bowling in the nets , but it 's nice to know that people still rate you . ’ |
10 | NOW that the heavens have opened , dry rivers are flowing and our reservoirs are full , it 's comforting to think that summer hosepipe bans will be a thing of the past . |
11 | It 's great to see that people are more aware of right-wing politics and the problems its supporters can cause , but not at the expense of all skinheads . |
12 | When everything 's going well for you it 's easy to forget that God 's there with you , because life 's so busy and so much fun . |
13 | Without going over all the ground again it 's necessary to state that Siporax is a sintered glass material with a massive external and internal area for bacteria and therefore a remarkably small quantity should be able to filter a vast pond . |
14 | It has its fair share of crash , bang wallop and does take a mite too long to wrap itself up , but Sneakers is very funny , hugely entertaining and always ingeniously wacky and it 's good to see that reports of Mr Redford 's celluloid ‘ death ’ have been been a touch premature and certainly exaggerated . |
15 | He said : ‘ It 's good to see that justice has been done — the pressure on myself and my family over this has been intense . |
16 | These pickups have plenty of bite and it 's good to see that Ibanez have kept their sensible switching system at this end of the range . |
17 | It 's good to know that people are genuinely into the music ’ |
18 | It 's encouraging to learn that tourists come to farms to enjoy what is already there ; they are interested in walking , visiting open farms and buying produce , rather than in specific entertainments . |
19 | With a career spanning seventeen years and almost as many albums , it 's hard to deny that Motorhead have earned a bit of a breather , but those that feared the sun and the swimming pools of their self-imposed LA exile might dilute the band 's full-on thrust can finally rest easy . |
20 | With a new film , The Hard Way , now showing at the cinema , it 's hard to believe that Michael J Fox resolved last year to give up being a film star and spend more time with his wife , Tracy Pollan , and their son , Sam , who 's three this week . |
21 | Striding over this beautiful coastline , it 's hard to believe that Belfast and its atrocities is just an hour 's drive away . |
22 | IT 'S hard to believe that Damon Hill is still in his first full season of Formula One . |
23 | It 's tempting to think that Windows is so carefully organized that you do n't have to understand much about these processes at all . |
24 | It 's sufficient to say that Clyde thanks you for saving his family , but then finds out there 's one Demon left . |
25 | Perhaps it 's sufficient to say that Diana , herself a Romanian , was deeply shocked and did not realise that children were living in such awful conditions in her own country . |
26 | ‘ It 's unfair to suggest that nature conservation is always about fencing off pretty sites , ’ says naturalist David Attenborough . |
27 | ‘ It 's frightening to think that sort of person exists . ’ |
28 | In the search for suitable pop biopic material , it 's important to remember that sex and drugs are not enough . |
29 | It 's important to remember that Caspar helped us to escape . |
30 | So erm , it it 's important to remember that Freud 's theory explains both of these tendencies and both the tendency for the group to make people better than they might normally be , but also that the tendency for the group perhaps to make them worse and of course either can happen and presumably a lot depends on the , on the leader , the leader or whoever is playing the , the leadership function presumably has erm some responsibility for this . |