Example sentences of "it [adj] that [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I found it strange that those words had come from the Parliamentary Secretary because , when I read them , I thought that they had been written by the Labour candidate , John Metcalfe , because there was no other indication that that article had been written by a Minister of the Crown who is responsible for this country 's agriculture .
2 The staff nurse said that she had thought it strange that this statement should have been volunteered ‘ out of the blue ’ moments after her mother had arrived .
3 Is it possible that some learning difficulties arise from the ways in which schools are organised and managed ?
4 But is n't it possible that these traits do n't figure that largely in the lives of , at least , young people in Ireland today ?
5 Is it possible that these cetaceans and odontocetes , hailing from beyond the wave base and thus unfamiliar with the self-generated noise of moving sediment , become disoriented by these acoustic signals on the same wavelength as their own systems ?
6 That this Conference , while recording its desire to see working men in Parliament on the Unionist side , thinks it undesirable that any distinction should be made between them and other members , and therefore expresses the opinion that all Unionist organizations should select and support with all their power the best candidate they can find to represent their constituency , irrespective of his social and financial status .
7 I would like to look at the people who are being cared for , the people that we 're talking about , are the elderly , quite often these people have lived through two world wars and given up their young married life , they have brought up their children through the bleak days of the general strike , is it right that these people have to suffer the indignity of charity hand-outs ?
8 While the nuclear transplantation and other experiments make it clear that all nuclei contain the same genetic information , there are exceptions .
9 Held , allowing the appeal , ( 1 ) that , although the definition of ‘ family proceedings ’ in section 8 of the Children Act 1989 did not specifically refer to the provisions in Part III of the Act , the section was to be read with section 92(2) of the Act which made it clear that all applications to the justices under the Act were family proceedings ; that , accordingly , the application to the justices for a secure accommodation order under section 25 in Part III of the Act were family proceedings ; and that , therefore , the statements of evidence and the psychiatrist 's report should have been admitted in evidence in accordance with the provisions of the Children ( Admissibility of Hearsay Evidence ) Order 1991 ( post , pp. 91E–G , H — 92A ) .
10 Israel made it clear that such development would be primarily in social and welfare spheres , and would not include any kind of economic development which ran contrary to its interests .
11 Yet they often make it clear that such folk existed .
12 This makes it clear that each pupil is entitled , as a result of the law , to a broad and balanced curriculum which is relevant to his or her particular needs .
13 We will be able shortly to debate those matters more fully in the House , but we have on many occasions made it clear that this Parliament will decide on the single currency issue at some date well into the future if and when it should arise .
14 As in much self-conscious fiction , we are constantly being reminded of the fictionality of the novel , but Verbivore makes it clear that this fictionality also applies to the ‘ simulations ’ of the media which its ‘ fictions ’ purportedly replace .
15 Criticisms within and without Parliament made it clear that this audit model of control was beginning to falter in the post-war period .
16 Bearing in mind the fact that Prince Metternich eventually left Vienna disguised in a laundry basket is not it clear that this incident is in the highest diplomatic tradition ?
17 We would like to make it clear that this delay was not caused by any default on the part of the defendant who is charged with their murder nor by his legal advisers .
18 He has also asked us to make it clear that this plan is in no sense intended to be fixed and final .
19 Even Weick does n't make it clear that this dilemma is not found only at the action level .
20 The lengthy preamble makes it clear that this Directive is a harmonisation measure requiring member states to equalise the level of protection granted to consumers when they enter into contracts with traders , businessmen or professionals .
21 This makes it clear that both Louis played at the Opéra .
22 The result might have been different if there had been a notice attached to the goods making it clear that these goods had nothing to do with the defendant 's business as a dealer in second-hand goods but had come from his home and that the sale of the goods was to be a private transaction .
23 Can you make it clear that these matters will be dealt with urgently and , in view of the credibility of all Select Committees , will you ensure that a firm conclusion is reached ?
24 This makes it clear that those customers have a direct customer relationship with the firm itself , and the customer agreement must therefore be entered into by the firm .
25 We have of course made it clear that those techs who were piloting er the out of school childcare initiative er will continue er to be funded er along with all other techs from ninety four , five and although of course I can not preempt the tech 's judgement and take a view on that particular scheme , er I can say that funding will continue for techs for that purpose .
26 We should make it clear that those people are not independent at all , but profit-hungry , commission-hungry salesmen .
27 His expression made it clear that any man or boy unlucky enough not to find another situation need not expect any sympathy : his place would have been filled .
28 He also made it clear that any thoughts of topping the 221 mark are being put firmly on the back burner , with the fastest 100 , set last year in mid-December , his next target .
29 Brezhnev himself , addressing the Polish party congress in November 1968 , made it clear that any threat to the socialist order in a given country would be considered ‘ not only a problem of the people of the country in question , but a general problem and concern of all the socialist countries ’ .
30 The Police Federation has made it clear that any proposals to reduce the age of consent would be vigorously resisted .
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