Example sentences of "[conj] it [adv] [vb -s] that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Rhetorically , Spenser 's text is organised so that it increasingly appears that Eudoxus has no counter-arguments to put to Irenius , such is the ostensible soundness of Irenius 's evidence and arguments .
2 In consequence , many Members who put their names down will have only ill-formed ideas about what they want and it frequently happens that Bills presented are ill-prepared or misconceived .
3 This generates a climate for the technological upgrading of industry as a commercial proposition , and it also ensures that hardware and software are conveniently available , at a price , for those who wish to take advantage of them in any sphere .
4 B : Oh he got a fine If it later transpires that Harry got a life sentence too , then B ( if he knew this all along ) would certainly be guilty of misleading A , for he has failed to provide all the information that might reasonably be required in the situation .
5 But it also asserts that parents may need assistance in exercising their responsibilities , and here the Act takes a quantum leap from the old , restricted notions of ‘ prevention ’ , to a more positive outreaching duty of ‘ support for children and families ’ .
6 There is a very high incidence of alcoholism in families where incest occurs but it also appears that child molestation occurs in several generations in some families even when there is no other obvious sign of addictive disease .
7 Not only does it discredit the emphasis on ‘ partnership ’ between Central Government and the faith communities which has been highlighted by the recent establishment of the Inner Cities Religious Council ( and re-emphasised at the meetings which you attended in Bradford on May 21st and Kirklees on October 27th ) but it also means that church and other faith communities will be less likely to play their full part in the implementation of other aspects of Government policy such as the forthcoming Community Care changes which will require the use of local premises , volunteers etc .
8 But it also means that people can , by their efforts , have a positive effect on the reality of punishment .
9 Not only does allowing the so-called minnows to play the bigger teams provide their players with the highlights of the rugby lives — but it also means that sides like South Korea , conquerors of the Barbarians , get the exposure to top level competition .
10 All this may be done for the best of reasons but it only ensures that children bottle up their feelings as well as their tears , which , as we have seen in previous chapters , can have far-reaching effects .
11 But it now seems that people completely unknown to me , absolute strangers , have been giving me what my mother used to call ‘ old-fashioned looks ’ or furtive , sidelong glances .
12 Oh yes , you get that , you get that kind of mimicry , but again you 'd expect it in , in , in both sexes I should think , unless it just happens that males for example normally are bigger and then it 's taken on a , a secondary characteristic which is a possibility .
13 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 .
14 For it sometimes seems that men and women inhabit different emotional worlds .
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