Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Left was often unrealistic to the point of silliness ; it failed to appreciate that the USSR was a power with interests of its own which it would pursue , regardless of the feelings of Soviet supporters in Britain . |
| 2 | But it failed to recognize that the challenge of running an individual company was very different to that posed by a large public organization with a multiplicity of purposes whose owners were n't shareholders but taxpayers who felt entitled to demand access to those things the nation already owned . |
| 3 | What sense does it make to say that the corporation is morally responsible to compensate victims from the corporate treasury , with the consequence that its shareholders must bear the loss ? |
| 4 | Neither the state nor its government is a person ; they are collections of people , and if none of these separate people has acted in any way inconsistently with his or her own principles , what sense can it make to say that the state they represent has done this ? |
| 5 | When it became known that the Government had said it could not afford to honour Nelson 's wishes and help her out , the tradesmen to whom she still owed money closed in . |
| 6 | ( The ‘ new evidence ’ was greeted with derision in some quarters when it became known that the L'Express story had originated over lunch with a senior official from the American Embassy in Paris . |
| 7 | It stands to reason that a firm would find difficulty selling advanced microelectronic machinery to a culture with a primitive agriculturally-based economy . |
| 8 | A buy-back may be used to mop-up any " loose " shareholdings , return surplus cash to shareholders or to increase the marketability of the target 's shares as a consequence of it becoming known that the company itself is a potential purchaser . |
| 9 | First , it has said that the benefits to the consumer are far from obvious . |
| 10 | Canon has yet to confirm details on price ( it should be around £2,000 ) and availability , but it has announced that the machine will only be sold through high street retailers and computer superstores . |
| 11 | There is no record of who owns what in the area of mining rights ; thus a mining company may have to spend years discovering to whom it has to pay royalties even after it has ascertained that a piece of Britain contains valuable metals . |
| 12 | It has emerged that the council had been compelled to discuss the future of Kent Opera at its two-day meeting at Leeds Castle in November because the company had explained that it was on the verge of closure and insolvency . |
| 13 | Recently it has emerged that the search party conducted on that final weekend was a rather showy finale , put on for our benefit . |
| 14 | In the last few years , however , it has emerged that the laws of science may hold even at the beginning of the universe . |
| 15 | Now it has emerged that the bomb which devastated Portadown on Saturday severely damaged the town hall , venue for the province 's One Act Drama Finals this Saturday . |
| 16 | And it has emerged that the same tape was also recorded at the home of Margaret Norgrove in Oxford several days earlier . |
| 17 | Now it has emerged that the Scots have taken over one of Merseyside 's finest seagoing treasures . |
| 18 | So far , it has emerged that the cost of repairing damaged roads will alone hit the £1m mark . |
| 19 | Whilst investigations were being carried out , it has emerged that the premises had not been inspected by an E H O for over five years . |
| 20 | It has argued that a total ban on sex may be unnecessary ; it would prefer to have rules that prevent a lawyer from bullying a client to have sex . |
| 21 | It has argued that the physical environment is the foundation on which this creation is based , but in a non-deterministic fashion : the environment provides opportunities and constraints , which are resources that may be realized in different ways by different social groups in different places . |
| 22 | Since its foundation it has emphasised that the profit potential in exporting will be enhanced if export management is in trained hands . |
| 23 | Most surprising of all , it has demonstrated that the scientific method , as it is presently formulated , is not adequate to explain even the physical universe , let alone human beings and their psyches . |
| 24 | The Royal Family has thus judiciously assented to this and so has participated in the creation of its own image ; in the process , it has ensured that the monarchy , as an institution and as a symbol , retains a cultural past , present , and ( crucially ) future . |
| 25 | With this objective in mind it has proposed that the system of interest subsidies , which the government introduced in 1984 , be either abolished or privatised . |
| 26 | Of necessity it has meant that the development of the Institution 's syllabuses tends to reflect what is , rather than what will be . |
| 27 | ‘ It has meant that the Independent on Sunday has been able to devote more review space to children 's books , and as a consequence many other newspapers are paying greater attention to children 's books . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ And it has proved that the man on the street is not suffering compassion fatigue . |
| 29 | It has recommended that the Austrian Chancellor , Mr Vranitzky , press for immediate closure of the plant . |
| 30 | Put another way , it has seemed that the primary concern addressed in the Beckford ( London Borough of Brent , 1985 ) , Carlile ( London Borough of Greenwich , 1987 ) and Henry ( London Borough of Lambeth , 1987 ) reports was that social workers did too little too late , while the primary concern addressed in the Cleveland report ( Secretary of State for Social Services , 1988 ) was that social workers did too much too soon . |