Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [adj] that [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It matters little that consumers are still cautious . |
| 2 | It seems relevant that anthropology be used at this time to contribute to the debate on policing , for since the 1964 Police Act and the preceding Royal Commission which was generated through concern over police practice , the organization has held an increasingly central place in the public imagination . |
| 3 | And it seems undeniable that ICMESA was in possession of a plant which , had it not been modified , would not have exploded . |
| 4 | Various authors have attributed these emissions to Ti and Mn respectively but , as Walker ( 1985 ) pointed out , the spectral bands are present in highly pure synthetic silica , and it seems certain that emission is intrinsic rather than due to impurities . |
| 5 | If we look at the history of the world , it seems surprising that love is included . |
| 6 | Very little is known about what triggers most animal viruses to follow either path ; indeed it seems possible that integration is a random and accidental process that does not occur at any specific sites on the chromosomes . |
| 7 | On current form , it seems unlikely that Oag is stringing anyone along . |
| 8 | Second , it seems unlikely that Africanus is making a bid for the words acceptis centum to be construed as establishing a trust in all circumstances . |
| 9 | It seems unlikely that monogamy is a natural state for the human animal . |
| 10 | Already it seems clear that superantigens are yet another example of microbial pathogens evolving mechanisms to use and subvert the immune response ; we shall hear more of their role in infective and autoimmune disease . |
| 11 | It seems likely that dementia is the extreme end of a continuum of behaviour ; the point prevalence is to some degree determined by where the case definition line is drawn . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , it seems likely that Dury is considerably less of a pain in the ‘ April ’ these days . |
| 13 | It seems likely that responses were sometimes in terms of whether the post was full-time or part-time , and sometimes whether training responsibility was full or part-time , and that this genuinely reflects the rather confusing diversity of titles held by library staff with training responsibilities . |
| 14 | Nevertheless it seems likely that change was forced on him , as earlier on such ‘ empirical ’ despots as Peter I in Russia and Frederick William I in Prussia , by the need for greater practical efficiency , and to some extent perhaps by an instinctive feeling for rationality , not by theories propounded in Paris . |
| 15 | Acetylcholine ( ACh ) and the enzymes that hydrolyse and synthesize it ( acetylcholine esterase and choline acetylase ) are present in relatively large quantities in insects ( Smallman and Mansing , 1969 ) and it seems likely that acetylcholine is a transmitter at neuropilar axo-axonic synapses ; y-aminobutyric acid ( GABA ) may also play a part in synaptic transmission in the neuropile . |
| 16 | Moreover , what this episode testifies to is a resurgence of the power of the southern Saxons as they sought to further their own ascendancy in the south-east , the foundation of which had been laid by Wulfhere , and it seems likely that Eadric was established as king in Kent as a southern Saxon satellite . |
| 17 | It seems likely that permits are increasingly being given for non-manual occupations , which has tended to favour the white inhabitants of developed countries such as the USA and South Africa . |
| 18 | It seems likely that Gray was his first victim and Branson the second . |
| 19 | Similarly Bennett ( 1976 : 5 ) remarks ‘ it seems likely that communication is primarily a matter of a speaker 's seeking either to inform a hearer of something or to enjoin some action upon him ’ . |
| 20 | And it seems likely that charities are being specifically targetted , as Simon Garrett explains |
| 21 | The timber bracing was built into stone and rubble walls as well , as can be seen at many points round the Knossos Labyrinth , so it seems likely that earthquake-resistance was the likely purpose . |
| 22 | Given such a responsible , indeed daunting task , it seems paradoxical that parents are not trained to rear their children ; and children certainly are n't in a position to bring themselves up properly without help . |
| 23 | Whether positively , or — in a minority of the population — negatively , it seems plain that Hitler was now , to a far greater extent than in the pre-war period , directly associated with the radical anti Jewish actions of the regime . |
| 24 | As more and more frauds emerge it becomes apparent that conmen are trying to dupe vulnerable people . |
| 25 | It becomes evident that Julian is a representative figure of the writer when he decides to write a novel ( 82 ) , and Decibel that of the oral media when she declares writing to be her natural enemy ( 186 ) . |
| 26 | But look more closely at the statistics , look at what is really happening on the streets and in the shops , look at how people 's lives are changing , and it becomes clear that things are not nearly as bad as they are painted . |
| 27 | It becomes clear that Cicciolina is not the problem . |
| 28 | But it becomes clear that Krashen is not thinking of theory in general , that is to say of a theoretical perspective on pedagogy , but of a theory in particular which can be applied directly ; not , therefore , of the process of referring actual problems to abstract ideas but the process of making practice conform to a preconceived conceptual pattern . |
| 29 | ‘ Thus it becomes clear that Representation is fraud ’ ( chapter I , ‘ Parliaments ’ ) . |
| 30 | Once it becomes clear that recovery is likely , it may , for instance , lead a person to re-examine their lifestyle and come to positive decisions about how they would like to improve it and make more of its good features . |