Example sentences of "it is [adj] [that] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While it is sad that Green Arrow is departing from the main line scene it is appropriate that this beautiful locomotive 's final run will be on the Settle and Carlisle line : in 1978 she hauled the ‘ pilot ’ steam specials over line which proved so successful that the route was released as an approved ‘ steam line ’ . |
| 2 | We just do not feel that it is appropriate that this whole area should now be run from London . |
| 3 | It is good that both these kennels , who were established right at the start of the breed 's development , are still active today . |
| 4 | While it is undeniable that Robbe-Grillet'– early novels are indeed capable of being read as essentially modernist texts whose narrative strategics consist in the representation of a distorted perception of reality , nevertheless , ‘ retrospectively ’ , they can also be considered to demonstrate reflexivity . |
| 5 | It is disgusting that two Christian and humane countries ( one at least ) should resort to this , all for some petty reason . ’ |
| 6 | It is odd that this abstract term is applied , not to our lives , but to the activities of people who tend to have difficulty with abstract concepts . |
| 7 | Over 800 modules are available to students and it is probable that all 3,000 students registered have unique programmes of study . |
| 8 | Furthermore , it is probable that more labour-saving commodities do not necessarily replace domestic labour , but simply serve to make more domestic labour possible ( Molyneux , 1979 ) . |
| 9 | The requirement that the defects be disclosed to the buyer is one of degree and it is probable that some positive act of drawing attention seems to be required . |
| 10 | ‘ It is probable that this cruel game will continue without end ’ ( Michels , 1959 , p. 408 ) . |
| 11 | However , if the controlled clinical trials were used as the ‘ gold standard ’ on which anticoagulation with warfarin was based , it is probable that most older people with AF identified by community screening would not be treated . |
| 12 | Until that day comes it is essential that other Christian communities support them . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , this approach has been included in the Department of Health guidelines ( DHSS 1984 ) with the recommendation that it is essential that each new intake of junior medical staff receives adequate psychiatric training in the assessment of attempted suicide patients , and that the physicians have regular access to psychiatrists to ensure that clinical standards are maintained . |
| 14 | It is essential that all these issues be addressed openly , free from ideology and rhetoric and from the sense , powerfully conveyed by respondents , that pedagogical orthodoxies must not be challenged . |
| 15 | It is essential that proper planned maintenance of equipment is carried out at the recommended time and is correctly recorded , and rectified as quickly as possible , stating the remedial action taken . |
| 16 | After a contract has been agreed any new instructions and variations to the works potentially cost money ; if the client wishes to control costs it is essential that any such additions are controlled . |
| 17 | It is essential that this right is not lost . |
| 18 | It is inconceivable that these dramatic changes in demographic structure could have taken place without a major effect on the geographical distribution of population in Britain and on its composition in different localities . |
| 19 | Of those influences incomparably the most important was the spread of nationalism ; it is ironic that this European idea was eventually to be the most powerful force undermining Europe 's colonial supremacy . |
| 20 | It is ironic that this dual aspiration , on the one hand , to give back autonomy to the socialist writer to produce works which balance the twin exigencies of socialist ideology and literary form , and on the other , to generate as a consequence a fuller , richer , more complex depiction of reality , marks , in fact , a return to the spirit of Nizan 's understanding of socialist realism in France in the 1930s . |
| 21 | It is ironic that those two Members were allies in forcing the Madrid conditions on the exchange rate mechanism on the right hon. Lady and they are now at odds over further developments in the Community , but they can still both vote for this meaningless motion . |
| 22 | It is surprising that such major intrusions by the state into the private lives of the people should take place without any clear legal authority . |
| 23 | But inspection under these schemes is entirely voluntary , and although it is impossible to gather figures , it is certain that many more organisations ( both private and public ) operate outside the recognition schemes than operate within them . |
| 24 | But even if it is not exactly this scheme , it is certain that any global agreement will have to be supported by a mechanism which allows the developing countries to pollute more while they catch up with developed countries which are simultaneously reducing their emissions . |
| 25 | It is curious that those two hon. Gentlemen were snatched away from their work on the Bill to enter the Whips Office . |
| 26 | It is curious that these young Turks are turning away from the sportswear looks beloved of top American designers for a decade — but they are infusing fresh interest into the New York fashion scene . |
| 27 | It is extraordinary that many more people have an inspection when buying a second-hand car than they do when purchasing a house . |
| 28 | IT IS arguable that successive British Governments , although paying lip service from time to time to the notion of being able to change the institutions of the EEC ‘ from within ’ , have never in reality held out much hope of doing so ; rather , perhaps , has it been their true intent to use the institutions of the EEC to shape the policy of Europe in their own image . |
| 29 | Secondly , it is arguable that most other theories , e.g. those based on semantic components , can be subsumed within it , in so far as they are built on consistent and logical lines . |
| 30 | It is noticeable that all these graves are found near the Pilgrims ' Way suggesting that this ancient road was being used as a highway by the Romans . |