Example sentences of "it [adj] that [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andrew says if people find it unbelievable that a nurse could ever kill then they should relise that the situation in Bosnia is unbleievable . |
| 2 | I find it strange that a wife , a queen , a princess with responsibilities , who had been informed in no uncertain fashion that her husband was to join her , fails to do anything when he does not arrive . |
| 3 | ‘ I find it strange that a report is being talked about when no-one was sent off , ’ he said . |
| 4 | ‘ Alan is a great player but I find it strange that a Scot is preferred to an Irishman and the more matches I win , the bigger the snub will be . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Alan is a great player but I find it strange that a Scot is preferred to an Irishman and the more matches I win , the bigger the snub will be . ’ |
| 6 | Have you ever thought it strange that the curse of the working classes is none other than that beloved boardroom nectar that evaporates executive stress and wins over the most capricious of clients ? |
| 7 | The sense in which we can talk of the meaning of an individual sentence is not determinate enough to make it possible that a sentence be unrevisably true in virtue of that meaning . |
| 8 | Was n't it possible that a man of Jamie 's age might be more able to cope with her feminism , her academic success ? |
| 9 | Thus , in the case of a general exclusion clause , is it possible that a clause could be enforceable in respect of some classes of liability controlled by the UCTA , but not in respect of others ? |
| 10 | How then is it possible that a gesture I saw performed by one person , a gesture that was connected to her , that characterized her and was part of her individual charm , could at the same time be the essence of another person and my dreams of her ? |
| 11 | Is it possible that a body was put in the basin early on Saturday morning and that it remained there until the next high tide without being seen ? ’ |
| 12 | It 's only a thought , but is it possible that the person who threw the carton of orange juice and 50p piece at Morrissey at the Madness ( Madness , not Morrissey ) gig was not some National Front yob but someone who felt that draping oneself in a Union Jack — still , like it or not , a symbol of racism — is itself racist ? |
| 13 | Or is it possible that the Government are contemplating a repetition of the 1986 strikes on civilian targets in Benghazi and Tripoli ? |
| 14 | Was it possible that the quest for the historical Jesus , of which Bethune-Baker was a leading representative , was based upon an illusion about the nature of the sources which were used ? |
| 15 | As Mr Wolski ate his usual morning toast and marmalade he was listening to a spokesman from the RSPB saying , ‘ We think it possible that the eagle will try to find high ground . |
| 16 | Is it possible that the statue which was scientifically examined was actually the copy , and the original — the only complete Roman bronze statue to have been discovered north of the Alps — was sent off to Spain , never to be seen again ? |
| 17 | Can the Directors of the Court of the Bank see down from their lofty offices to the struggles that the Bank Assistants endure/ Is it possible that the clouds get in the way ? |
| 18 | Is it possible that the importance of ‘ substantial criminal experience ’ is being exag-gerated ? |
| 19 | A poll of 400 of the world 's leading climatologists organized by Greenpeace has shown that almost half think it possible that the greenhouse effect might reach the point of no return in the near future , and one in seven think it probable . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , the very low variability in ratings on this scale makes it possible that the task was not successful in measuring this . |
| 21 | Was it possible that the desire to return to the Vita Apostolica , the simple life of prayer , personal austerity and poverty was reconcilable with the Petrine commission and all the pomp and authority that suggested ? |
| 22 | This would make it possible that the poison was administered earlier in the meal . |
| 23 | Is n't it possible that the informant deliberately told the kidnappers I would be there , knowing what the consequences were likely to be ? ’ |
| 24 | How is it possible that the distinction between nation and state still escapes intelligent people on the British Left ? |
| 25 | A concern with theological questions has sometimes prompted new lines of scientific inquiry , as when Richard Bentley ( 1662–1742 ) , wishing to use the latest science to defend his Christian theism , asked Newton whether he thought it possible that the frame of the world could have been produced , from a uniform distribution of matter , by mechanical principles alone . |
| 26 | Was it possible that the letter had been written simply that Aunt Louise might use it as use it she had ? |
| 27 | The contrast between nature and architecture here was too much indeed for the ungenerous Hippolyte Taine , who came here on his Journey to the Pyrenees in the middle of the last century and wrote that ‘ One finds it grotesque that a bit of hot water should have brought cuisine and civilization into these declivities . ’ |
| 28 | On the contrary , I think it admirable that a gentlewoman should think seriously of such matters . ’ |
| 29 | A second thing is that a co , is it right that a company of people should be deprived of a sacrament because an ordained minister is not available ? |
| 30 | First , is it right that a remedy should be refused because the respondent would have made the same decision even if it had not acted illegally ? |