Example sentences of "it [adj] that the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is n't it strange that the well lit , easily accessible car park is reserved for managers ? |
| 2 | Is it possible that the Drunken Poets ' scene was in the original version of the show ? |
| 3 | Who a decade ago would have thought it possible that the chief benefactor of bus deregulation would be BR ? |
| 4 | Was it possible that the grasping Miss P had meant the gesture kindly ? |
| 5 | " He was convinced " , wrote Tupper , " that the German man-in-the-street was participating in this senseless and savage struggle because the Prussian system forced him to ; the ordinary subject of the Kaiser might be misled into believing his cause just — but he could not conceive it possible that the German sailormen who had been part of our Merchant Service could have anything but hatred for this catastrophe " . |
| 6 | The hon. Gentleman 's question was interesting in that it linked county hall and Battersea power station , making it clear that the Labour party 's plans for a reborn Greater London council are not the reassuring slim-line version that Labour spokesmen have been peddling . |
| 7 | With characteristic skill , he managed at one and the same time to tap the vein of emotional , utopian socialism which played such a large part in the Labour movement , and yet to make it clear that the Labour Party would take office in a severely pragmatic spirit . |
| 8 | Erm what I think we need is an alternative to the suggestion made by Mr Broughton erm is simply erm a wording in the exceptions policy should it be er carried forward that makes it clear that the agricultural policies in the structure plan do still apply erm to those proposals . |
| 9 | We have been asked to make it clear that the joint Essex County Council/Essex TEC scheme to create an enterprise centre at the site of a former school near Parkeston Quay ( reported in the EADT yesterday ) does not affect the company Autoprint , which will continue to trade from its premises at School House , Hamilton Street . |
| 10 | Perhaps the biggest problem with the Severin thesis is that recent work in Mesoamerican archaeology , and the deciphering of Mayan hieroglyphic codes , make it clear that the classic Mayan civilisation ( AD300 to AD900 ) had precursors going back to the Olmecs in 1000BC and earlier . |
| 11 | However , Townsend and Wedderburn ( 1965 , Chapter 5 ) make it clear that the low level of many occupational pension payments sometimes served merely to keep their recipients off National Assistance , though still on the margins of poverty . |
| 12 | In a few short verses not only did that celebrated pair dispose of our continental neighbours , but they also made it clear that the Irish , the Scots and the Welsh were suspect too . |
| 13 | The Society believes it is particularly unacceptable for changes of this sort to be put forward through Regulations when the White Paper preceding the Legal Aid Act , and the Lord Chancellor 's comments during the passage of the Act , made it clear that the Regulation-making powers were intended to be used for routine upratings , rather than for radical changes to the scheme . |
| 14 | Appellate counsel 's point was that P was anxious to make it clear that the major part of the blame for the offences fell on others , and he might not have appreciated that the statement could be used against him ; it was thus unfair . |
| 15 | For we think it clear that the new agreement made by the plaintiff with Samuel Revill , to receive from him £100 in full payment of one of the three notes and in part payment of the other two , before they became due , accompanied with the erasure of his name from those two notes , and followed by the actual receipt of £100 , was in law a discharge of Samuel Revill . |
| 16 | The present Survey makes it clear that the continued circulation of such lists has again failed to stimulate the use of foreign-language publications . |
| 17 | That answer , at least , is consistent with the passage in Questions of Procedure which makes it clear that the internal arrangement of Cabinet business is no concern of Parliament or public . |
| 18 | Officials make it clear that the actual cost is not yet known . |
| 19 | However , I am prepared to confirm that in my evidence to the Select Committee I made it clear that the regional electricity companies were obliged to purchase the most economic electricity on the market . |
| 20 | Besides , the caption made it clear that the International Women 's Day included much more of substance : ‘ … music , workshops , speakers and exhibitions from around the world . ’ |
| 21 | His criticisms of religion and its associated morality , with its hostility to rational thinking , make it clear that the respected majority of people in Europe and America were not seen as being ‘ normal ’ or ‘ healthy ’ . |
| 22 | Is not it clear that the excellent record of business investment in the United Kingdom reflects the fact that business men recognise the Government 's commitment to containing inflation in the long term ? |
| 23 | That makes it clear that the public debt targets are not rigid , they can be ap applied flexibly to take account of unemployment . |
| 24 | My noble and learned Friend and my right hon. Friend made it clear that the green form scheme would not be withdrawn until a full , free , prompt , and convenient form of professional advice was available to every asylum seeker . |
| 25 | The Welsh annals ( s.a. 629 ) refer to the besieging of Cadwallon on the island of Ynys Lannog ( Priestholm ) and Bede says that Eadwine brought under Anglian rule the Mevanian Islands , by which Môn ( Anglesey ) and Man are meant ( HE 11 , 5 ) , making it clear that the northern Anglian king must have established an impressive naval and military presence in the Irish Sea . |
| 26 | The letter to the Hebrews makes it clear that the Old Testament sacrifice was at best an incomplete answer to the problem of sin . |
| 27 | Such inconsistencies make it clear that the age-regressed person is not actually functioning at the suggested age level , nor is his recollection truly accurate . |
| 28 | Finance ministers and officials taking part in the meetings made it clear that the whole package of financial aid was conditional on the former Soviet republics pressing ahead to establish market economies and taking prescribed measures for stabilization . |
| 29 | The meeting made it clear that the main reason for changes in relationships between the Council and the colleges was ‘ the need to give greater independence to colleges rather than the pressure of work at the Council ’ . |
| 30 | Sir Clive Wigram 's memorandum of the Buckingham Palace Conference makes it clear that the National Government was formed on quite specific conditions . |