Example sentences of "it that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How is it that about one third of the rainfall is lost ? |
| 2 | But at least the fusion community needs such volumes to remind it that at the end of the day the scientific juggling will come to nothing if it does not lead to a convenient and not too expensive source of electricity . |
| 3 | Slavonic legend has it that at the time of the Creation of the World a group of malignant spirits staged a revolt against Svarog , the sky god . |
| 4 | Tradition has it that at the cremation of Gautama Buddha in India in 543 BC the tooth survived the flames and was brought to Kandy in the fourth century AD . |
| 5 | The same reasoning , I suspect , saw to it that at one time you could n't get olives , only peanut and crisps , in smart bars in Spain , because olives were what peasants ate . |
| 6 | How is it that at the British yarn show held recently in Leicester the chairman of Benson Turner , a firm of spinners in my constituency and an efficient and well-organised company , complained that the Department of Trade and Industry shows inertia and indifference when the industry submits complaints about illegal subsidies and dumping ? |
| 7 | what 's happened , but it does say in it that at the beginning that you assume that he is a youth because he 's got , come from university , but when he 's in the graveyard the fellow , it , it comes out that he 's thirty is n't he ? |
| 8 | Rumour had it that on a less poetic occasion the Emperor had visited the pavilion accompanied only by Mme Walewska , his current favourite , embarking in a small rowing boat and returning with the lady only after a considerable lapse of time . |
| 9 | That 's it that on telly . |
| 10 | Although the people who built this temple have long since vanished , legend has it that during certain summer full moons the wild elephants arrive to roister amongst the ruins . |
| 11 | The chemistry department had a strong reputation in carbohydrate chemistry , and the story had it that as new sugars were discovered they were given names that always ended in ‘ -ose ’ — eg sucrose , glucose , fructose etc . |
| 12 | Why is it that among men in the 11 other EC countries unemployment rose by 86,000 , but in the United Kingdom it rose by 609,000 ? |
| 13 | Why is it that among women in the 11 other EC countries unemployment fell by 32 per cent. , but in Britain it rose by 172,000 ? |
| 14 | Amid the euphoria of its seven-point opinion poll lead , the party 's own pollsters have reminded it that in the South the Conservatives lead 47-33 while in the Midlands and Wales the race remains too close to call . |
| 15 | Tradition has it that in times past people brought their sick and weary to the shores of the loch , certain of its curative properties . |
| 16 | West Yorkshire ( ‘ Greater Leeds , ’ as one citizen calls it , ‘ but I would n't dare call it that in Bradford or Sheffield ’ ) is the source and spiritual home of the thrift movement . |
| 17 | The fundamental question , as posed by Foucault , is how is it that in our society sex is seen not just as a means of biological reproduction nor a source of harmless pleasure , but , on the contrary , has come to be seen as the central part of our being , the privileged site in which the truth of ourselves is to be found ? |
| 18 | According to Mrs Baldwin , whose account was more immediate , the words were : ‘ Sir , this is a very grave decision and I am deeply grieved ’ ; but the significant difference is that she adds : ‘ and he went on to tell him that according to some legal opinion the divorce ought not to have been granted , that there were certain aspects of it that in any ordinary case would not have gone through . ’ |
| 19 | Is it that in this society there is much too much material clutter , which is a manifestation ( infestation ) of the weaker sides of brains everywhere , and this is placed as a permanent distraction from , and avoidance of , truth ( the complex abstractual reasoning of which we are all capable ) ? |
| 20 | Local folklore has it that in prehistoric times men drove wild cattle to their deaths over Combe Scar and ate them where they fell at the foot of the crag ( cattle bones are reputed to have been found there ) . |
| 21 | Someone who gives this answer clearly takes it that in some cases it works , and we must not beg the question against him . |
| 22 | The old cliché has it that in hard times pop culture goes soft , entertainment becomes more trivial , more ‘ escapist ’ . |
| 23 | Waterstones will see to it that in 1993 bigger and even-better bookshops open throughout the land . ’ |
| 24 | You were so successful at it that in the end you could vanish without leaving a soul behind sufficiently concerned about you to kick up a fuss — only a solicitor worried about the legal hang-ups , and especially the money ! |
| 25 | Why is it that in the 12 months to September this year unemployment in Europe rose by 7 per cent. , but in the United Kingdom it rose by 40 per cent ? |
| 26 | how is it that in languages such as Polish a noun 's gender appears to change according to whether the noun is singular or plural ? |
| 27 | Why is it that in some societies like our own the three stages of childhood development are clearly distinguishable and of great importance as far as personality formation is concerned , whereas in other societies this is much less true , and one or two stages seem to be almost absent altogether ? |
| 28 | Many people can , can remember it that in their youth they saw their when they 're their early childhood they saw their parents were very special people the parents . |
| 29 | Why is it that in the north of England , particularly in this region of the north of England , we seem to be worse than anywhere else ? |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't understand economics , Superintendent : why is it that in a country with three million on the dole some of us do n't have time to breathe ? |