Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [adv] [vb -s] [adj] that " in BNC.

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1 With hindsight it perhaps seems strange that one of the indisputably greatest figures in the whole of Western art devoted the better part of his life to sell-advancement , and to painting the King , his family , and their attendant dogs , dwarves and sycophants Certainly the irony of this , together with the fact that this inbred family of often considerable mental as well as physical fragility should have controlled the destiny of so vast an empire , is not lost on Gironella .
2 In Britain 's case it also remains true that she has to make up in sales to the world outside the EEC that which she loses by running a heavy deficit with the Community .
3 If for some reason it subsequently becomes obvious that you ca n't do what you said you 'd do , then the genuine thing to do is to contact the person before the deadline expires , admit your difficulty and negotiate a new deadline .
4 where a legally aided person fails in an interlocutory matter it often occurs 6 that an order for costs will not be enforced without leave of the court .
5 In a problem-solving discussion it often becomes clear that the people present are all trying to solve slightly different problems .
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