Example sentences of "it [verb] [that] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ From the beginning , that court has acted upon no narrow view of the cases covered by its duty to quash a conviction when it thinks that on any ground there was a miscarriage of justice … |
| 2 | It holds that across all cultures and forms of social arrangement women have been kept in subservience to men . |
| 3 | With the handing over to the Council of Europe in 1960 of the social and cultural responsibilities it had inherited from the Treaty of Brussels , it seemed that to all intents and purposes WEU had become moribund . |
| 4 | In fact it seemed that at that time ( early 1977 ) sexual examination had become common practice at Heathrow Immigration Department , apparently carried out at the whim of the officials . |
| 5 | The sea roared like a pride of hungry lions , thudding against the side of the ship like a thousand battering-rams , so that it seemed that at any moment it must break through and drown them all . |
| 6 | Interviews with other staff reinforced this impression and it seemed that in many departments the self-appraisal did not receive much considered attention . |
| 7 | It shows that for those people without work and looking for a job , the ending of a temporary job was the second most important reason for having left their last employment . |
| 8 | And it alleges that in some cases traffic is being severely disrupted on the busy road after cars have been covered in slime dragged up from the river bed . |
| 9 | It appears that for these types of conditions few new cases are identified in later life . |
| 10 | If figures are based on the total cohort of entrants to degree programmes then it appears that among some categories of non-traditional students the percentages achieving ‘ good ’ degrees are somewhat lower . |
| 11 | It is generally accepted that each person , man and woman , is made up of both masculine and feminine qualities , and it appears that in some lifetimes the masculine will have been predominant while in others it will have been the feminine . |
| 12 | It appears that in this case , at least , the avoidance of the deadly prey is inborn . |
| 13 | Though it stated its hope that planning authorities would allocate sufficient land , it warned that in some cases it might have to take the initiative and , if local authorities refused planning permission , go to appeal . |
| 14 | Professor Flinn found no very wide gulf between wage and price increases and concluded that " contrary to the very commonly made generalisation that rapidly rising prices tended to erode real wages … it seems that for many groups of workers … wage rates in general broadly kept pace with rising prices " . |
| 15 | It seems that for some time the firm had been issuing such promissory notes and having them endorsed by its local bank in Bihać ( where , incidentally , the partisans held the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council for the Liberation of Yugoslavia ) . |
| 16 | Of course , all human beings , male and female , have their share of each , but it seems that in many women the right-hand side , intuitive approach is more developed . |
| 17 | It seems that in some cases the answer is yes , even though no characteristic elements of segmental phonology have been found which distinguish black Londoners ' speech from that of other Londoners . |
| 18 | Indeed , it seems that in some cases an interpretation in terms of emphasis is quite inappropriate . |
| 19 | It seems that in some areas schools lost interest in the DCSL visits once the books were on the shelves . |
| 20 | Normally , banks are unwilling to use their funds for financing enterprises in other republics and provinces , but it seems that in this case the banks in the more prosperous parts of Yugoslavia had funds in excess of the amounts they were permitted to use for giving credits to their own customers ( Politika , 27 August 1987 ) . |
| 21 | However , for both choices of verb , one of the reference candidates is much more acceptable than the other , and so it seems that in this case , only a weak preference should be imposed , with reasoning expected to make the decision . |
| 22 | It seems that in this respect the governors themselves considered the appraisal principally from the point of view of trying to bring about improvements for the school . |
| 23 | It is well known that isolation in itself , with no sleep loss , can induce hallucinatory experiences , and it seems that in this experiment the effects of sleep loss potentiated the relatively mild levels of isolation imposed on the subjects . |
| 24 | However , from their polymerase chain reaction results , it seems that in most cases there is 1 fetal cell for every 10–10 maternal cells . |
| 25 | It seems that in any country , the Rottweiler is always recognized as a working dog first and a show dog as an after thought and then as only a show dog . |
| 26 | It seems that in these cases , instead of pleonasm , there is an intensification of the adverbial notion ( cf. very very good ) . |
| 27 | so it meant that for some time before contingency fund development was introduced you must of had some concerns er about the accuracy of the figures you were putting forward for the publication , can , can I explain that a little more ? if after a few years a major repair needs to be carried out there was no contingency fund , it might mean sticking another two or three hundred pounds a year on the service charges , might it not , to cover a major repair |
| 28 | It follows that at any disequilibrium point , such as point C , economic forces will be pushing the market towards the general equilibrium position . |
| 29 | It follows that at some stage in the design process it should be useful to consider how the various functions are most effectively allocated — to man or to machine . |
| 30 | It means that at some point in a viewing activity the learner can be asked to focus on the visual channel only . |