Example sentences of "it [adj] that the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | Or is it possible that the Government are contemplating a repetition of the 1986 strikes on civilian targets in Benghazi and Tripoli ? |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | Is it possible that the importance of ‘ substantial criminal experience ’ is being exag-gerated ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , the very low variability in ratings on this scale makes it possible that the task was not successful in measuring this . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | This would make it possible that the poison was administered earlier in the meal . |
| 13 | Is n't it possible that the informant deliberately told the kidnappers I would be there , knowing what the consequences were likely to be ? ’ |
| 14 | How is it possible that the distinction between nation and state still escapes intelligent people on the British Left ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Was it possible that the letter had been written simply that Aunt Louise might use it as use it she had ? |
| 17 | Is it right that the Secretary of State should hide behind English Tory Members of Parliament who consistently and always seem to have their names at the front of the Order Paper when there are Welsh questions , thus denying Welsh Members the right to put their point of view on behalf of their constituents ? |
| 18 | Is it right that the future of the hospitals should depend on an undignified ideological tug-of-war in the Scottish Office bunker ? |
| 19 | Is it right that the people who reside along this route , particularly Coombe Drive ( which is totally residential ) are to pay through the poll tax for lowering their standard of living ? |
| 20 | Gaullists considered it normal that the state control television , the ‘ shadow in the cave ’ of a growing number of bourgeois drawing rooms and even working-class and peasant breakfast or dining rooms : — ‘ la télévision , c'est le gouvernement dans la salle à manger ’ , remarked one Gaullist minister . |
| 21 | I find it odd that the position has so changed compared with 15 months ago when I became Secretary of State , when some Conservative Members were alleging that standards had declined and Opposition Members were denying those allegations . |
| 22 | Will the Leader of the House confirm that although few people in Britain would expect the Prime Minister to match President Yeltsin bottle for bottle , they will find it odd that the Government insist on increasing or doubling Britain 's nuclear fire power when both the Russians and the Americans see good reasons for cutting theirs ? |
| 23 | He found it odd that the church should block a nursery . |
| 24 | ‘ Is n't it odd that the Wheel has been recovered and not the body ? ’ |
| 25 | Linguists will find it odd that the terms semantics and pragmatics are never mentioned in the book . |
| 26 | ‘ I have made it public that the country needs to have its own identity , its own institutions . ’ |
| 27 | If the port of Murmansk is blocked up for weeks and mackerel arrives spoilt , is it wrong that the crew be given its bonus for so many fish caught , or that the dockers be paid for so many tons unloaded ? |
| 28 | The results , announced a few days later , made it clear that the proposition had been carried by a very large majority . |
| 29 | Bergman ( 1979 ) also includes Signed Swedish under the title of a language , but her description of its history ( and this history is repeated in many countries ) makes it clear that the system has been constructed with specific aims in mind . |
| 30 | A vast majority of Arab leaders and Arab people have made it clear that the invasion of Kuwait is an issue for the Arab nation to resolve , but to no avail . |