Example sentences of "it [be] [adv] [verb] that they " in BNC.
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| 31 | And even though it was generally accepted that they , along with the better known chimps of East Africa , were our closest relatives , few would have guessed that their relationships would be , well , so very human . |
| 32 | It was also decided that they should concentrate on the contract market . |
| 33 | It was also stressed that they were free to terminate the experiment at any time . |
| 34 | It was also envisaged that they would play an advocacy and educational role on behalf of dementia sufferers throughout their area . |
| 35 | Students spent a lot of time travelling ( walking and even running ) from one lecture to another in various parts of London , and it was increasingly demanded that they should find within the walls of the College all that they required , or that they should at least pay a fee that would entitle them as of right , rather than for charity 's sake , to enter medical lectures . |
| 36 | Although the LTTE denied involvement in the assassination , it was widely noted that they had a strong motive , believing that Gandhi had betrayed them in 1987 when he dispatched the Indian army in an unsuccessful effort to bring Sri Lanka 's civil strife under control [ see p. 35313 ] . |
| 37 | The two drivers were later charged with dangerous driving , but it was widely suspected that they had been acting on orders . |
| 38 | It was now believed that they — or vital parts of them — were infallible cures for a whole variety of ailments and weaknesses . |
| 39 | They set to work cutting down trees and brushwood , far and near , to drag up to the terrace , to fill in the ditches — or at least , the two outer ones , for when they came to the inner ones it was promptly demonstrated that they were within range of the defending cannon . |
| 40 | It was usually agreed that they If id do correcting and distributing ( a rather thankless task , left to apprentices if possible ) . |
| 41 | It was always assumed that they would get a job , a home , a wife and children , in that order . |
| 42 | That means that the reduction in the rent applied throughout the years down to the end of 1944 , but early in 1945 it is plain that the flats were fully let , and , indeed the rents received from them ( many of them not being affected by the Rent Restrictions Acts ) , were increased beyond the figure at which it was originally contemplated that they would be let . |