Example sentences of "it was [adj] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was crucial that Soviet leaders came to trust non-Marxist and not necessarily pro-Soviet Finnish political forces to abide by the military provisions of the 1948 Finnish-Soviet Friendship and Cooperation Treaty which met Soviet security needs in the direction of Finland comprehensively and permitted the expression of the Finnish brand of neutrality . |
| 2 | He said at a reception at the circuit that it was amazing that modern grand prix cars could lap so fast on the twisty and demanding Leicestershire circuit . |
| 3 | They noted , however , that it was possible that excessive protectiveness could result from having an abnormal child rather than the reverse . |
| 4 | Additionally , it has been reported that circulating PYY concentrations are raised in patients with malabsorption and it was possible that high colonic fatty acid concentrations may be responsible for this exaggerated PYY release . |
| 5 | They concluded , however , that it was possible that social networks have a modest association with mental health even though they offer little protection against acute stress . |
| 6 | The Bank maintained in 1980 that although targets were set , it was possible that structural change and financial innovation may affect the relative growth rates of the aggregates , but that the problem was not insuperable ( Green Paper on Monetary Control 1980 ) . |
| 7 | The 30-year-old champion from Croydon pulled himself up at nine with seemingly no more than a split second to spare and it was possible that American referee Rudy Battle , handling his 57th world title fight , gave him the benefit of the doubt . |
| 8 | It was undeniable that low wages as well as unemployment were a major cause of poverty . |
| 9 | In this atmosphere , it was understandable that commercial television should be placed under the close scrutiny of a licensing body , empowered by what is now s4(1) of the Broadcasting Act 1981 to ensure : ( a ) that nothing is included in the programmes which offends against good taste or decency or is likely to encourage or incite to crime or to lead to disorder or to be offensive to public feeling … ( b ) that due impartiality is preserved on the part of persons providing the programmes as respects matters of political or industrial controversy or relating to current public policy . |
| 10 | There was little difference apparent between more- and less-frequent walkers , but it was noticeable that particular sub-groups stood out as experiencing more than their share of problems . |
| 11 | There was something in several of these points , but they ignored the obvious , and when proper figures were forced out of Pask , it was evident that substantial potential economies were being bypassed . |
| 12 | It was evident that total resources allocated to the initiative were never great . |
| 13 | Secondly , it was evident that young women did have a number of strategies of resistance . |
| 14 | Clive , who is an active CPRW member , felt it was vital that environmental groups took a very tough line with the industry right from the word go . |
| 15 | They stressed that it was vital that environmental groups took a very tough line with the industry right at the outset . |
| 16 | Gerry Addams is a man who supports the murder campaign by the I R A terrorists , always defends it and he did n't condemn the killing of the protestants on the Shankhill Road by that I R A man , he carried that I R A man 's body at the funeral , what he said was it was unfortunate that innocent people were killed . |
| 17 | The position of the frescoes mattered a great deal and also , according to Nanno Marinatos ( 1984 ) , their visibility : it was important that certain frescoes should only become visible at certain stages in the ritual — hence the pier-and-door partitions . |
| 18 | In the context of deregulated bus services , it was important that strenuous efforts at informal co-ordination between bus operators and local planning authorities should be encouraged . |
| 19 | He added that it was important that key educational objectives were addressed from the start . |
| 20 | They felt that it was important that public officers concerned with citizens — judges , the police , the armed services , even teachers , doctors land nurses — should receive training on the obligations of the state and on the rights of citizens . |
| 21 | With so much spare cash floating around , it was inevitable that industrious entrepreneurs would pop up to try to claim it for themselves . |
| 22 | It was inevitable that great changes would take place during the 140 million years , including extinctions of genera and sub-orders , if not entire orders . |
| 23 | Given the size of the motion-picture audience it was inevitable that political authorities would become involved in some regulation of the industry even if it was only to be a question of safety and fire regulations , but what made the movies even more into a public issue was that they became a mass activity precisely at the moment when political parties and social agencies were more concerned than ever before with how the masses could be accommodated within cities . |
| 24 | In such a situation , it was inevitable that political disputes tended to be expressed in the language of Court versus Country rather than in terms of the old party ideologies — even if the use of such rhetoric was forced on people for tactical reasons , and a Tory who espoused Country arguments in order to make common cause with opposition Whigs still remained recognisably Tory at heart . |
| 25 | It was inevitable that new religions should develop round them . |
| 26 | It was inevitable that spiritual power should devolve on the urban temples . |
| 27 | It was obvious that oceanic crust must be continually destroyed somewhere at a rate comparable with that of its creation at the oceanic ridges in order to maintain a balance . |
| 28 | When it became known that people in many developing countries remained free of the major killer diseases of Western civilization , it was obvious that medical research into these illnesses should start by delving into the question of what these people were doing , or not doing . |
| 29 | Commenting on the outcome of yesterday 's Anglo-Irish Conference meeting in London , Mr Adams said it was obvious that British policy was ‘ in tatters ’ . |
| 30 | because the clinics were not attached to university medical schools , it was improbable that good physicians would be attracted to the specialty ; |