Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It insists however that the Emerald research and development effort has been left unscathed by the cutbacks . |
| 2 | But the Trust claims it ca n't afford to carry out her wishes , and after an all-day meeting with proespective buyers at Townsends Solicitors in Swindon , it announced tonight that the manor has been sold . |
| 3 | Nor is there anything remotely convincing about its performance ; there is a feeling of some urgency from 4000rpm but the power stops as suddenly as it starts so that the 6500rpm red line is a merely a figment of someone 's imagination . |
| 4 | Suffice it to observe meanwhile that no great arithmetical nous is required to work out a formula indicating the limit of the WGMS 's capacity to rectify anomalies . |
| 5 | It transpired later that the social workers were all under instruction to have identification . |
| 6 | Er , it transpired afterwards that the man she had married , was not the father of the child . |
| 7 | It helped considerably that the ‘ batting order ’ always started with the Local Authorities ' Consortium . |
| 8 | ‘ Nurses everywhere are working under intense and growing pressure and today 's announcement will be a heavy blow since it says clearly that the Government does not value their efforts and is not prepared to treat them with fairness or justice . ’ |
| 9 | As he peered through his mind 's eye it seemed rather that the deepest water changed into a different type of material which sank down and down forever , tossed by its own fierce storms , swayed by its own currents that were swifter than any ocean 's — until far off elsewhere there surfaced from this immaterium yet other seas of life , which were other worlds . |
| 10 | It seemed yesterday that the conflicting ideas would be sorted out by President Mobutu , and that a political settlement was in sight . |
| 11 | It seemed indeed that the numbers of low-paid unskilled jobs were growing with the advance of mechanization . |
| 12 | Was it , I wondered , for that reason that it seemed suddenly that the media were too ? |
| 13 | Who turned the scene round , made it work so that the rest of the operetta is not totally ridiculous ? |
| 14 | This was pretty certainly an exaggeration , but it shows unmistakably that the Black Country ( though this name had yet to be invented ) was in process of creation . |
| 15 | It exists notwithstanding that the reasons for making the choice are rational , irrational , unknown or even non-existent : see Sidaway v. Board of Governors of the Bethlem Royal Hospital and the Maudsley Hospital [ 1985 ] A.C. 871 , 904–905 . |
| 16 | It stated clearly that a flat rate charge could not cope with the scale of local authority expenditure and that it could not do so fairly . |
| 17 | A hundred years earlier such an expedient might well have been used to impress envoys from some European state ; but by the later eighteenth century it showed merely that the Indians were exotic visitors from outside the European diplomatic system who might be influenced by such essentially childish devices . |
| 18 | The snake makes it wriggle so that the apparently disembodied filament appears to be some kind of succulent worm . |
| 19 | What Hollywood offered was ‘ a medley range of vague and variable impressions — a disconnected assemblage of ideas , feelings , vagaries and impulses ’ and it followed therefore that the movies were ‘ not endeavouring to provide a consistent philosophy of life ’ . |
| 20 | It seems also that the regular equation of ‘ primitive ’ tribal customs with the earliest forms of European prehistoric culture provided an acknowledgement of common humanity , but one which was appropriately abridged and indirect . |
| 21 | It seems then that a Romalpa clause will , if properly worded , work in the case of unmixed goods and the proceeds of sale of unmixed goods , but that in the case of mixed goods ( and their proceeds of sale ) will work only if it is registered as a charge created by the buying company . |
| 22 | It seems then that the RIBA is in a middle position in terms of obligation . |
| 23 | It seems then that the most plausible form of logical empiricism holds that statements can be divided into two classes , those that are strongly verifiable and those that are not strongly verifiable themselves but are confirmable and disconfirmable by appeal to the strongly verifiable ones . |
| 24 | It seems then that the display of goods in an automatic vending machine — unlike that in a shop window or on the shelves of a supermarket — is not merely an invitation to treat but is an offer . |
| 25 | It seems indeed that the social categories Emily Faithfull had in mind as " compositoresses " were the educated daughters of respectable tradesmen : the only ones whose origin is known for sure , and who were ideal for the experiment , were the daughters of master printers ( rather different from the daughters of journeymen ) . |
| 26 | On May 19th it decided abruptly that the allegations did not matter . |
| 27 | It meant also that the consideration which more and more came to dominate the Dual Monarchy 's foreign policy was the need to check Russian influence over the Slavs of the Balkans . |
| 28 | It meant only that no criteria ( which are always contextual , in any case ) were sufficient to clarify its meaning . |
| 29 | ‘ It follows therefore that every citizen has a right to criticise an inefficient or corrupt government without fear of civil as well as criminal prosecution . |
| 30 | It follows therefore that a discussion of the effectiveness of the Chinese Wall ( a self regulatory/quasi-statutory mechanism designed , inter alia , to prevent insider dealing ) ought sensibly to be preceded by an initial outline of the substantive law regulating the practice , the likelihood of detection , and the penalties capable of being imposed . |