Example sentences of "it is [adj] that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is proud that it eschewed the now-or-never mentality that drove others to make acquisitions in the run-up to Europe 's single market in financial services . |
| 2 | In addition to this , I think it is appropriate that we also take the opportunity to look ahead to the next three year phase , the developing work load of the adviser and the future development of FWAG in Lothian . |
| 3 | It is appropriate that he should be the one with the empty belly addressing his friend . |
| 4 | Only if the House of Lords decides that it is appropriate that it should decide the uncertified point should it do so , perhaps in circumstances like those in Gallagher where the certified issue and the question ultimately determined by the House of Lords were not easily disentangled . |
| 5 | Although written testing is still in common use , ( and it is appropriate that it should be for outcomes which are knowledge-based ) , other instruments such as projects , case studies and assignments were commonly used too . |
| 6 | It is appropriate that I here take the opportunity of welcoming the thrust of recent authoritative reports detailing guidelines for good corporate governance . |
| 7 | As I indicated to you on the phone on Friday , I believe it is appropriate that I formally review the position of the sale of your company following receipt of the indicative offers . |
| 8 | Both his grandfather and father were stationmasters in Great Eastern Railway territory so it is suitable that he should produce a pictorial survey of British railway stations . |
| 9 | ‘ It is suitable that I do something involving a black rhino to raise the money . ’ |
| 10 | It is good that we can walk into that world again , even if only for a brief interlude . |
| 11 | I suppose it means meeting fewer people and in that way is a loss to you , but if you get on well with your lady that could be even better , and it is good that you have weekends free . |
| 12 | It is good that you are able to look after your friend with the sick husband , and I expect you are still seeing Maureen . |
| 13 | ‘ It is odd that they said so many things to identify themselves within a few short sentences . ’ |
| 14 | Yet decisions about the significance , for entry into higher education , of school-level achievement in public examinations are made all the time — and it is odd that they seem to be made without reference to CNAA , BTEC or the NCVQ . |
| 15 | Since Malinowski made no secret of his earthy , materialist view of man 's motives it is odd that it has taken modern exponents of transactional analysis and game theory so long to recognize his pioneering achievements in this field . |
| 16 | However , one of the main reasons Petrey gives for his admiration of speech act theory is its superiority to cognitive accounts , so it is odd that he never spells out where this superiority lies . |
| 17 | It is probable that we ask permission to use certain shots in the production , and as we have not got much time before the edit , I wonder if you could let us have 1″ PAL copies of these three films ? |
| 18 | It is probable that we are not yet aware of the extensive use made of the river system for bulk transport at that period , but there are indications which should alert us to it , such as the wharfage on the River Ver discovered in the 1954 — 7 excavation at the Park Street villa ( Saunders , 1963 , 118 — 123 ) . |
| 19 | It is probable that they either crashed or were shot down , although Stirling states that there was evidence that at least some of them may have reached their target . |
| 20 | If they are strongly and exclusively attached to domineering parents who set impossibly high standards and are deeply ‘ hurt ’ when their offspring fail to live up to them , it is probable that they will acquire a sense of conscience so severe and restrictive that their spontaneity and emotional life will be crippled and much of their creative energy will remain unused . |
| 21 | As ‘ London Transport ’ fleet name transfers did not become available until May 1934 , it is probable that they did not receive them until their next annual overhaul . |
| 22 | Most radio stations in non-NPN states had already stopped taking the national news from FRCN in Lagos , and so it is probable that they too ignored the event . |
| 23 | There is also already evidence that healthier lifestyles at early ages — including , in particular , abstention from smoking , a reduction in alcohol consumption , more controlled eating , and regular exercise — are now being adopted , and it is probable that they will improve health at a later stage for the cohorts which adopt them . |
| 24 | This practice is said to suit them better since it is probable that they will marry and leave off work and they hardly like to spend seven years out of their wage-earning life in being trained . " " |
| 25 | Think of any of them and it is probable that they will be static , caught like a photograph in a position that somehow typifies them . |
| 26 | She could not say it in front of him , nor he in front of her , even though it is probable that he too would prefer to try living the next life differently , without Agnes . |
| 27 | That fear was a very real one and , in view of his connections at a high level , it is probable that he was aware of what was going on . |
| 28 | And it is probable that he then left them again , taking his believing wife with him , and lived by the gospel . |
| 29 | Eliot wrote back and discussed the matter ; he was already formulating his own ideas on the general subject — he gave a paper on " The Christian Concept of Education " at a conference in Malvern in January 1941 — but , since they were markedly different from those of Pound , it is probable that he was only humouring him . |
| 30 | These accounts are contradictory but not incompatible : it is probable that he was indeed in a state of shock , since the nature of shock is to suspend ordinary or familiar reactions . |