Example sentences of "[verb] it [adj] that [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the latter cases are probably a diminishing minority , especially now that budgetary delegation under LMS has made it essential that heads in their turn delegate a greater proportion of their managerial functions to senior staff , our studies indicate a more general need for primary schools to continue to review the role of deputy headship , to define more exactly the range of tasks it is appropriate for someone at that level of seniority to undertake , and to ensure that all deputy heads have appropriate job specifications . |
| 2 | In terms of articles 2 and 3 of the Irish constitution , I said when I addressed the Dublin chamber of commerce on Friday in conjunction with Co-operation North that the Irish Government had made it clear that articles 2 and 3 would be on the table with regard to any talks , and that is , of itself , a reason to seek to proceed with the talks . |
| 3 | Attempts to examine survival and replacement rates in rural society and in towns other than London have made it clear that conclusions can at best be tentative . |
| 4 | The disputes in the councils which followed the election of Sinn Fein representatives in 1985 has made it clear that loyalists are willing to close down councils rather than work with Sinn Fein , and the younger generation of DUP activists has been fully active in the promotion of that position . |
| 5 | Unless the United Nations peacekeepers proved very much tougher in Serbia than they have done in Croatia , that would have made it unlikely that Croats and Muslims would have felt secure enough to return to their former homes . |
| 6 | We consider it strange that adults ( teachers , parents , publishers of textbooks and examiners ) behave as if they believe both that manipulating fractions is a useful skill and that most children can acquire this skill . |
| 7 | Chinese doctors consider it incredible that Westerners release unknown side-effects on their children by feeding them drugs . |
| 8 | They believe it essential that farmers should remain in the far north , however uneconomic their agriculture , lest half the country become depopulated . |
| 9 | However , they felt it important that consumers should retain the freedom of choice so that those who found the extra cost of electrical ‘ refined heat ’ worthwhile because of its cleanliness and convenience were free to pay for it . |
| 10 | He thought it fortunate that improvements in male characteristics were passed on in some measure to women , otherwise the man would have become as superior in mental endowment to women as the peacock is in plumage to the peahen . |
| 11 | A National Consumer Council opinion poll this year found 98 per cent thought it important that consumers should have a legal right to demand a replacement or refund if a product can not be repaired reasonably quickly . |
| 12 | It was a measure of the opacity of military affairs that , although no Zuwayi had any evidence of meetings , or of any disproportional conscription , most people thought it plausible that men might be pressed into the army because they were Zuwaya . |
| 13 | He argued that in some markets the lumpy nature of demand made it essential that contracts be shared out , to ensure that the competitors were not exposed to the risk of alternating ‘ feast and famine ’ in their order books . |
| 14 | Upon our arrival at the foot of the stairs the dog made it plain that stairs were an innovation he 'd not encountered before , by staging the first of many sit-down strikes . |
| 15 | This made it clear that periti might not all be theologians ( 'canonists and other experts ’ were also mentioned ) , and that there was a distinction between conciliar periti and private advisers to bishops . |
| 16 | At one stage , Fields had threatened to pull out of the arrangement altogether and find a new partner , until the CAA made it clear that Fields would not have a licence without Virgin 's involvement . |
| 17 | A preliminary exploratory questionnaire study made it clear that subjects find it very difficult to give accident figures unless they have some anchors for their estimates . |
| 18 | Everyone , bar a few ascetics , thinks it desirable that jobs and housing and education and medical care should be available to all . |
| 19 | Changeable conditions and the active nature of skiing make it essential that designs should not only look good but also be functional . |
| 20 | Wills make it clear that fathers and sons worked together in the same little workshop , and perhaps the women and girls helped occasionally . |
| 21 | Paragraphs 474–489 of the Latey Report make it clear that doctors felt difficulty in accepting the consent of someone under 21 ( the then age of majority ) to medical treatment , even though parental consent might be unobtainable or , for reasons of the minor 's privacy , undesirable . |
| 22 | The accident estimates from Study 2 as shown in Table 4.6 make it clear that subjects do rely on the precise conditions in the film viewed when making accident estimates for a junction , even though most subjects previously knew the junctions concerned . |
| 23 | These and other reports make it plain that attitudes were divided on the ‘ Jewish Question ’ , now as before . |
| 24 | However , in many instances the arrangement represented the exercise of power and control over the protected State which was in a position of subordination , making it logical that claims should be made against the more powerful State . |
| 25 | Thus Regulation 418/85 provides exemption for R&D agreements from the effects of Article 85 , making it clear that exemptions only apply to agreements that do not extend to joint marketing and selling . |
| 26 | One oil company , for instance , considers it essential that details of every crude oil futures trade done anywhere in the world reach its head office computer system within two minutes of the trade 's being concluded . |
| 27 | The NSPCC considers it outrageous that children in the greatest need are denied the help they need because of the bureaucratic delays of an inefficient legal system . |
| 28 | It makes it clear that solicitors may only breach the duty of confidentiality they owe to clients , whether adult or child , in exceptional circumstances . |
| 29 | One might have thought that the context makes it clear that horses is to be interpreted as ‘ stallions ’ ; however , such an interpretation is not available for this type of sentence . |
| 30 | Section 28(6) of the 1988 Education Act makes it clear that governors will not be personally liable in cases of injury or damage if they have acted in good faith . |