Example sentences of "it [vb pp] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it expected that that will be the embryo for a carbon tax to pay for more investment in renewable energies ? |
| 2 | BR 's motive-power policy was rapidly turned on its head with the abandonment of two sacred principles : sectorisation saw the end of the common-user policy for locomotives and passenger multiple units : and no longer was it accepted that life-expired main-line cast-offs should spend their last days propping up secondary services . |
| 3 | Is it agreed that these Minutes be approved ? |
| 4 | The assembly could ask the Westminster Parliament for powers to be transferred to it provided that such requests were supported by 70 per cent of the assembly . |
| 5 | He was big and burly , and is n't it known that all big and burly men are … gentle giants . |
| 6 | ‘ Be it known , ’ declared the paraplegic , who had been paralysed irreparably in some nerve-eating attack by aliens , ‘ Õbe it known that some precious organs of the Venerable Dorn have been lost to us utterly during the vast lapse of time . |
| 7 | Be it known that this unique building was erected in the reign of our good Queen Victoria and in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and sixty three at Eardisley in the county of Hereford . |
| 8 | With goods having only one normal use the mere fact of the purchase will , by implication , make it known that this is what the buyer wants them for , e. g. a hot-water bottle , as in Priest v. |
| 9 | She asked : ‘ Is it suggested that all the ethnic minority members who passed through its doors were unworthy of membership ? ’ |
| 10 | This has not been done in the interests of achieving a restrictively formalist , text-immanent reading of the story , nor is it suggested that contextual detail does not have a part to play in a multidimensional , interpretative process . |