Example sentences of "it is [verb] [that] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Years later it is discovered that Grom reached the Elven Kingdoms of Ulthuan , causing great destruction until finally defeated by the High Elves . |
| 2 | It is hypothesised that words processed at deeper levels will be better recognised than those processed to only a shallow level and that reaction times will be longer at deeper levels of processing . |
| 3 | But in these papers it is stated that Tyndale headed his written defence , ‘ Faith alone justifies before God ’ , and that among the questions debated were worship of saints , the Sacraments and the authority of the Pope . |
| 4 | There can be no good reason to object to this when it is recognised that efficiency incorporates personal factors such as safety , health and quality of working life as well as system factors such as productivity and quality of work . |
| 5 | It is said that Arabs have no compunction about reneging on a deal , that they will blow hot and cold , use the phrase ‘ God willing ’ to suit their own purpose , say ‘ yes ’ when they mean ‘ no ’ and generally confuse their more direct Western counterparts . |
| 6 | It is said that Farafrans know the night sky better than most people know the rooms of their own home . |
| 7 | Gwennap Pit was originally an amphitheatre created by mining subsidence , and it is said that tinners held their cock-fighting ‘ mains ’ ( matches ) in it , but in the eighteenth century John Wesley preached his fiery sermons to the large crowds of tinners and their families who gathered here . |
| 8 | It is said that Britain has become a country of High Mass Consumption . |
| 9 | It is said that Ferdinand made all three brothers promise to defer to Rodrigo del Bivar , putting him virtually in loco parentis to the infantas , though he was still only of an age with them . |
| 10 | It is said that MPs have not had many letters about the case , in which three businessmen nearly went to jail for doing what the Government had encouraged them to do . |
| 11 | It is difficult to explain why they would have maintained such popularity — for it is said that Cooper produced a painting a day — over shifts in market and social circumstances . |
| 12 | It is said that men mature as they grow older like a good red wine , but that a woman 's beauty fades with age . |
| 13 | There is good reason for its common name ; the bruised foliage , whose odour has mint-like associations , induces cats to roll all over the plant , eventually ruining it , but it is said that plants grown from seed will be safe until dying down , or withering for some reason . |
| 14 | Now I think it 's in Alice in Wonderland , that it is said that words mean what I intend them to mean . |
| 15 | It is said that Peru has some of the best liars in the world — I could n't know , they are so good I believe them ! |
| 16 | ‘ It is said that Watson replied , ‘ Is that you Mr Bell ? ’ but since there was only one telephone in the whole of God 's creation at the time , Bell ‘ s reply to HIM is not hard to guess at . |
| 17 | After all , it is said that children grow out of crime and naturally move to independence from their families . |
| 18 | It is said that Rundell 's had to satisfy so many orders at this time that Storr & Co. was obliged to work , in the way of dinner services , centre-pieces , and other ceremonial and domestic plate , some ten thousand ounces of silver a month . |
| 19 | Often the contents of a reply are non-committal ; it is said that points made by a committee are noted or that certain matters will be kept under review . |
| 20 | It is said that Freud wrote in a male-dominated society , and that his theory about sexuality , and about female sexuality in particular , reflects this in the male bias in his work . |
| 21 | Another way of putting it is to say that RE has to offer feasible road-maps enabling pupils to chart their own way around the difficult country of religion with its complexity and ambiguity . |
| 22 | Suffice it is to say that Woferl jumped up on the Empress 's lap , put his arms round her neck and kissed her heartily . |
| 23 | An easy way of sort of getting round it is to say that adapters do it better , and innovators do it differently . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , it is acknowledged that disciplines maintain different marking conventions — differences that a grades-only system could reduce . |
| 25 | On the basis of 1 Chronicles 21 , where it is recorded that David incurred divine displeasure because he ordered a national census , some Christian leaders refuse to gather statistics of their membership . |
| 26 | It is hoped that mines placed about 600ft below the new fissure will create depressions to contain or restrain the lava and disperse the flows into rivulets which could cool quickly , slowing it down . |
| 27 | It is hoped that courses tailored to particular IT topics will be available as both a control and a development provision . |
| 28 | It is concluded that smoking reduces gastric secretion . |
| 29 | It is concluded that patients treated with cyclosporin for primary sclerosing cholangitis who have coexisting ulcerative colitis have a more benign course of colitis resulting both from improvement of moderately active colitis and from fewer flares of remission/mildly active colitis . |
| 30 | It is concluded that AI based systems have great potential in offering support to efficient system failure diagnostics . |