Example sentences of "[subord] it [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 31 | This openness is fundamental to the total quality culture that the Quality Scotland Foundation espouses as it firmly believes that , by bringing together people with expertise in the quality field to help and advise those who wish to make a commitment to it , attitudes can really begin to change . |
| 32 | The Movement recognised this , as it also recognised that administrative pressures were working against a concerted attempt to preserve religious unity . |
| 33 | I speak from the heart here , as it so happens that my sister is to be married this month and my mother is trying her hardest to organise the wedding that we ( never mind my sister and fiancé , these things are family affairs ) , want . |
| 34 | This was an undercover operation which had to be conducted with great speed as it quickly emerged that there was every chance that the Princess might well have left the royal circle by the proposed September publication date of the book . |
| 35 | But this conclusion is not particularly illuminating as it merely says that children come into local authority care when no one else can care for them , a repetitive statement we call a tautology . |
| 36 | For it sometimes seems that men and women inhabit different emotional worlds . |
| 37 | Choosing the liner is one thing , calculating the size is quite another , for it always appears that you require a vast sheet for even quite a modest pool . |
| 38 | For it so happens that the developed societies over-value certain kinds of mental operations , like logic . |
| 39 | For it often happens that the things we take for granted are the very things that need most explaining , but to which we give least attention because we are barely conscious of them ourselves . |
| 40 | " For it often happens that in such discussions , in order to promote the common good , talk has nevertheless centred on a single individual . " |
| 41 | Not only is it little consolation , he wrote , it is actually a further cause for despair , for it only shows that everything is far too late , that the glass was a dream of lateness and the work on the glass was a fantasy of lateness and the belief in the glass was the madness of one who has lost all sense of the meaning of lateness . |