Example sentences of "[adj] it [vb past] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | From this it followed that whoever was archbishop of Canterbury inherited all the powers that Gregory had given to Augustine , just as the pope inherited all the powers that Christ had given to St Peter . |
| 2 | From this it appeared that the father was the principal debtor in the sum of £299 . |
| 3 | In 1972 it expected that the new system of fewer and larger local authorities would prove more efficient . |
| 4 | On Aug. 22 it emerged that Shaikh Bachir Fekih , a member of the FIS , had attended the final round of negotiations in a personal capacity amidst reports of assurances by the Prime Minister , Sid Ahmed Ghozali , that the state of siege in force in the country since June 5 [ see p. 38312 ] would be lifted by Oct. 5 . |
| 5 | When the late Conservative administration did its sums at the end of 1963 it found that its future programme worked out at an annual rate of increase of 4.1 per cent . |
| 6 | Nevertheless people decided to try it out , till in 1932 it seemed that the coup de grace to such activity had been delivered by the mathematician John von Neumann . |
| 7 | The Intervention Board withdrew the facility with six weeks notice , because it maintained , it was uneconomical it noted that last year the average weekly throughput for steers was less than four animals a week . |
| 8 | Instead , in December 1984 it announced that a 30 per cent cut was becoming ‘ an aim of policy ’ . |
| 9 | The danger with this was that the longer it went on the more likely it became that both players and fans would get their priorities wrong , so that the feeling of ‘ we may as well concentrate on what we 're good at and not bother too much about Tests ’ would become steadily more predominant . |
| 10 | The more days went by , the more likely it became that the end of the police search would be the discovery of a corpse . |
| 11 | And the more I considered it , the more obvious it became that Miss Kenton , with her great affection for this house , with her exemplary professionalism — the sort almost impossible to find nowadays — was just the factor needed to enable me to complete a fully satisfactory staff plan for Darlington Hall . |
| 12 | Waiting for the kettle to boil , she thought about the other night , and the more she thought about it , the more obvious it became that Donna had got it wrong . |
| 13 | To many it seemed that for new houses to be carcassed for gas as well as electricity involved an unnecessary duplication of expense . |
| 14 | The strikes had taken on an important political dimension when workers formed a free trades union ‘ Solidarity ’ , and in 1981 it seemed that Soviet tanks would be needed to restore order . |
| 15 | In the autumn of 1950 it seemed that the Korean crisis was well on the way to a solution . |
| 16 | By the closing weeks of 1950 it seemed that the Chinese might be about to win an outright victory in all of Korea . |
| 17 | How extraordinary it seemed that he and Rufus had stood in front of that picture and laughed at it ! |
| 18 | In the 1590s it appeared that there were already two reversioners to the post of Clerk to the Privy Seal , when a request came from Edward Reynolds for a third . |
| 19 | At first it seemed that his career might even be over , but he fought back . |
| 20 | At first it seemed that the only delay was in making the cottage fit to occupy , and Coleridge wondered whether , until it was ready , there might not be some rooms to spare at Shurton Court . |
| 21 | At first it seemed that LGCM might be forced to pay the Archdeacon 's legal costs as well as its own , which might leave it bankrupt . |
| 22 | At first it seemed that the Woodvilles , the members of the queen 's ambitious and much-disliked family , held the vantage points . |
| 23 | The former German capital , which had been under joint administration since 1945 , lay deep within the Soviet occupation zone and at first it seemed that the Western sectors would be starved into submission . |
| 24 | At first it seemed that he intended to resist the radical proposals put forward by delegates , when during radio broadcasts of the debates he was heard angrily to interrupt the speakers , declaring on Feb. 27 that the proceedings constituted a " civilian coup d'état " . |
| 25 | At first it seemed that Francis was going to leave it at that , the ball in his court , but in fact he was trying to decide which would annoy her most : being kept in the dark about his conversation with Anna or knowing the truth . |
| 26 | Once again Sunderland had to thank goalkeeper Tony Norman for some inspired saves but at first it seemed that he might be the villain of the piece after gifting bottom-of-the-table Brighton an 11th minute lead . |
| 27 | At first it appeared that some progress was being made . |
| 28 | The work reported on in section 3.3 suggested that there may be economic efficiency ( as well as taxation efficiency ) reasons for the introduction of share options , and in general it suggested that managerial emolument packages should not be in the form of a straight salary but should involve some performance-improving subtleties . |
| 29 | Up to 1970 it seemed that it was mutually beneficial to allow large scale migration to remove ‘ surplus ’ labour from these southern rural regions . |
| 30 | The US Treasury began to experience a depletion of its gold stock , so in August 1971 it announced that official convertibility of dollars into gold was temporarily suspended . |