Example sentences of "it [adv] [adj] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found it most questionable that Forward Publishing , having won fifteen awards — including a class winner — was not mentioned once throughout the whole ceremony . |
| 2 | They state : ‘ If PES makes it less likely that new monetary programmes with large spending implications will be introduced inadvertently , it also helps to assure departments that their on-going programmes will not suddenly be disrupted ’ ( Heclo and Wildavsky , 1981 , p. 238 ) . |
| 3 | All four of the properties described above make it less likely that central banks would ever have to defend parities that the markets had come to regard as indefensible . |
| 4 | The availability of land and the cost of transport make it less likely that intensive livestock units will be within reach of suitable mink habitat . |
| 5 | Is it not possible that French influence can be made to be felt once more ? |
| 6 | Is it not scandalous that ministerial offices and the House have televisions provided by the taxpayer , yet bedridden patients who want to watch television to help them to relax must pay ? |
| 7 | Is it not churlish that Labour Members have not welcomed any of those orders ? |
| 8 | In addition , increasing staffing levels is said to make it more likely that successful coalitions can be developed at local level to push for higher levels of spending , so that the process of expenditure growth becomes self-perpetuating ( for example , Tullock , 1977 , p. 285 ) . |
| 9 | We consider it more likely that increased numbers of non-γ-interferon producing lymphocytes infiltrate the mucosa in coeliac disease . |
| 10 | This worry increases physiological arousal , making it more likely that physical symptoms will occur in the future ; an upwardly spiralling vicious circle soon gets established . |
| 11 | Indeed , such communities may not be typical of communities as a whole : Romaine ( 1982 ) regards it as certain that linguistic and social factors do not often interact straightforwardly in the way Labov suggests . |
| 12 | In early 1944 , de Gaulle regarded it as essential that French forces , which now numbered 400,000 men , should play a leading role in the campaigns to liberate Europe . |
| 13 | Is it really true that nucleic acids are the only carriers of genetic information ? |
| 14 | The ERM 's history over the past nine months makes it increasingly likely that monetary union , when it happens , will involve only a small group . |
| 15 | He was speaking in shorthand in a sense and made it very clear that Scottish circumstances would be taken fully into account , and that I will be reaching a decision in due course . ’ |
| 16 | Canon Spence said : ‘ We are delighted that Kenneth Clarke has made it absolutely clear that Catholic parents have the right in law to send their children to the local Catholic school . |
| 17 | I want to make it absolutely clear that general practitioners voluntarily choose to run fund-holding practices and are not forced by the Government to do so — and GPs will take that step only if they can see benefits for their patients . |