Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [to-vb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not saying that they are uneconomical , but there may be the odd one or two cases , like the of Berwick St James is a fine example , when it became uneconomical to maintain that school for the number of pupils which were attending , or proposed to be taken in the near future , and it was a sensible option for those children , and economically to close that school . |
| 2 | In less than a century the world of sound-recording had expanded from a plaything for amateurs to a world-wide billion-dollar industry , and it looks set to stay that way . |
| 3 | It seemed strange to make that argument , Mr Cook said , when it was clear the whole policy review process was designed to placate the centre ground . |
| 4 | It seems reasonable to suppose that there differences in the kind of provision that needs to be made by each of these stages of teacher formation . |
| 5 | And yet it seems reasonable to suppose that , since it remains the same object viewed by the observer , the retinal images do not change . |
| 6 | It seems reasonable to say that without Law there would have been no NFCC , at least not in the powerful form it reached in the early years of the twentieth century . |
| 7 | Grazing by molluscs figured so strongly among the hazards to a clover leaf that it seems reasonable to expect that , in those years when slugs or snails were abundant , they may act as important selective forces within clover populations . |
| 8 | It seems reasonable to suggest that , whereas in daily life in a literate culture , we use speech largely for the establishment and maintenance of human relationships ( primarily interactional use ) , we use written language largely for the working out of and transference of information ( primarily transactional use ) . |
| 9 | Secondly , since alternative methods of endometrial samples are as accurate as dilatation and curettage , and acceptable to most patients , it seems reasonable to suggest that with appropriate guidelines , training , and support of the family health services authority , general practitioners could perform some of the procedures otherwise carried out in gynaecology outpatient services or the operating theatre . |
| 10 | It seems reasonable to assume that Oswiu certainly brought into subjection to himself the Pictish kingdom of Fortriu ( between the Forth and the Tay ) , for Bridei , the son of Bili , king of Strathclyde , and Ecgfrith 's cousin ( HB ch. 57 ) , who became king of the Picts on the expulsion of Drest and later fought against Ecgfrith , is described specifically in the Irish annals as ‘ king of Fortriu ’ at his death in 692 ( AU s.a . |
| 11 | It seems possible to suggest that for a sultan already disposed toward examining and reorganizing the institutions of state , pride in his newly-built medreses , as well as simply the fact of their existence , might well have acted as a strong spur to him to impose some sort of order upon and , implicitly , control over-the learned institution . |
| 12 | But we still need to know how , I mean maybe in a participatory democracy we can defend freedom and equality to the system not in it seems absurd to say that democracy we have now is a way of embodied freedom I mean maybe weak notion of equality , but nothing |
| 13 | So far , however , as working underground is concerned , it seems safe to generalise that adult female labour was never widespread and was in decline in the later eighteenth century . |
| 14 | ( iv ) Differently , it seems difficult to accept that consciousness is tolerably conceived when it is so conceived that it follows that anything that can be regarded as passing through certain sequences of causal or logical states is conscious . |
| 15 | While certainly it seems plausible to suggest that , if there are people from similar social or educational backgrounds in a number of key roles , the relationships between those people will facilitate the sharing of ideas and opinions , the processes involved can not necessarily be explained as simply as this . |
| 16 | Without disparaging the spiritual discipline practised in the Lugard home , it seems fair to say that young Freddy , who even then possessed a lively truculence , studied too assiduously to be good . |
| 17 | If a mare is fit and healthy , with a normal oestrous cycle , there is no reason to suppose she will have problems in foaling , but it seems fair to suggest that teenage mares be checked out by a vet before you start working out names for the as-yet unconceived foal . |
| 18 | Not only are the external stakeholders different parties , needing a different rational analysis to justify the decision , but it seems important to convince that group of stakeholders that managers have taken their interests fully into account in the internal negotiation process . |
| 19 | Because of that prominence , it proved difficult to develop that element of compromise and bargaining which would have been essential for integrative success . |
| 20 | Thus in principle a directive is addressed to the Member State and not to the citizen ; it sets out an object which the Member State is to achieve and leaves it to the Member State to adopt the measures which it considers apt to accomplish that object . |
| 21 | As the binary policy gained momentum , it remained possible to have that impression . |