Example sentences of "it [vb past] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | ( 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 . |
| 5 | I wondered how it came to pass that a thinking man bore the prejudices of his unthinking parents into the future ? |
| 6 | As the death of the Smiths was mourned , it came to pass that The Wedding Present rightfully took over their mantle . |
| 7 | Quite suddenly it seemed fitting that the suit of her husband should garb a man who had slaughtered his brides : there was in that , somewhere , a gleam of relevance . |
| 8 | But it is hard to re-create the atmosphere of fanaticism and fear in which it seemed unsurprising that the gramophone records of Paul Robeson were expunged from the catalogues and the novels of Theodore Dreiser and the detective stories of Dashiell Hammett were purged from public libraries . |
| 9 | On the contrary , progress was essential to their optimistic vision of history because it seemed to guarantee that the world was moving in a purposeful direction towards a morally significant goal . |
| 10 | The prospects for an acceptable permanent solution were discussed at a District Council meeting recently and it seemed agreed that the travellers should have a permanent site and that the situation is urgent as tension is growing . |
| 11 | It was the Second Law of Thermodynamics which gave Victorian intellectuals a certain frisson because it seemed to imply that the world was running down . |
| 12 | It seemed to suggest that the GLC and the LTE must try to break even , a course which was certainly feasible if fares were sufficiently increased and services sufficiently reduced , but which was politically as unacceptable to the government as it was anathema to the GLC . |
| 13 | The provision of horses was unexpected , but curiously cheering , because it seemed to show that the giants were sending Floy and Snodgrass off in reasonable style , as if they expected them to return . |
| 14 | Yet by now Battle Brothers were as mastiffs straining on the leash ; and it began to seem that the cadets might become Scouts in time to participate in the great endeavour , should they be so fortunate . |
| 15 | It began to seem that the entire storehouse was made up of substances which looked harmless and beautiful on the surface , but which changed and blurred and coalesced as you approached them . |
| 16 | But for the Scots , it served to show that the unprecedented level of strenuous intervention from France in the 1550s might be as unpalatable as the similar experience in the 1540s from England . |
| 17 | For the Australian Federation of Consumer Organisations to succeed in its suit , it needed to establish that the Tobacco Institute of Australia 's advertisement ‘ was published in trade or commerce . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Particulars of Offence : [ The respondent ] on 17 September 1990 dishonestly and with a view to gain for himself or another , or with intent to cause loss to another , falsified a document required for an accounting purpose , namely , a computer generated sales invoice , by making an entry therein which was or may have been misleading , false or deceptive in a material particular in that it purported to show that a discount of 70 per cent . |
| 19 | It did suggest that the principles of confidentiality should be preserved for a period of fifteen years instead of thirty , but that there should be no new machinery for enforcement since offenders would carry the risk of social and political sanctions , and , of course , if they came within the rubric of any existing legal restraint , such as the Official Secrets Act , they would run the risk of legal proceedings . |
| 20 | This did not necessarily mean that the churches opposed alleviation of pain , but it did mean that the ministrations of the pastor were much more important than those of the physician , and those of the latter should not be permitted to interfere with the spiritual task of the former . |
| 21 | There was , presumably , a sound evolutionary reason for the fact that no one had yet designed a lavatory in which the occupant faced away from the door , some relic of the time when primitive man was most at risk when at stool , but it did mean that the lavatory user was finely tuned to the approach of strangers . |
| 22 | This meant a lot of work with the Treasury solicitor 's office ; but it did mean that the commissioner had to write the report and not us , so there was something to be said for the arrangement . |
| 23 | If the public acceptance of psychoanalysis meant anything for secondary selection it did mean that the scientificity of any description of the mind became more suspect — its subjectivity more evident . |
| 24 | Well , occasionally , it did happen that a shortage of male Jews was evident . |
| 25 | Although similar requisitions were carried out on treasures in museums , it did seem that the state had finally decided to test the power of the Orthodox Church on a socially explosive question . |
| 26 | It did seem that the mother 's intrusion in quarrels led to more conflict over the longer term . |
| 27 | It did seem that the main force squadrons in other Groups had more casualties than we did , partly because they had to cope with fully awakened defences , gun and searchlight crews as well as fighters , after PFF had done their job , and perhaps also because they had a higher proportion of new , inexperienced crews who were usually the first to come to grief . |
| 28 | Although it proposed no major institutional changes , apart from greater co-operation between colleges of education , universities and polytechnics , it did recommend that the colleges should broaden their base by offering other courses alongside teacher-training , notably the two-year Diploma of Higher Education ( Dip.HE ) , a development which is discussed in detail later in this chapter . |
| 29 | Assuming the tribunal would not be so careless as to make such an oversight , it is submitted that if it did consider that the words ’ conduct of the employee ‘ in Sec 24 of the Industrial Relations Act , 1971 ( now Schedule 1 Para 6 ( 2 ) of the 1974 Trade Union and Labour Relations Act ) were impliedly qualified by something like ‘ in the course of his employment ’ , it was quite wrong . |
| 30 | It appeared to confirm that the Soviet Union had not indulged in any sustained attempts to downplay the health effects , and went further by concluding that official Soviet measurements of radiation doses received by the populace were between two and three times in excess of the real amount . |