Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] it [verb] that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has made it quite clear that it believes that the existing legislation can deal with such matters . |
| 2 | They were originally intending to work in Zaire , but the situation is still somewhat unstable and it seems that the time is not quite right for them to go there . |
| 3 | I found that interesting because it appears that the Minister does not know how many doctors made a claim that was above the amount of the reimbursement schedule or , if he did know , he was unwilling to tell me , so I must presume that he did not know . |
| 4 | This shows that the actualization of the infinitive 's event is not what such sentences express , an analysis supported by Coates ( 1983 : 100 ) , who gives a similar argument for the meaning of can in her discussion of She can swim , and Palmer ( 1977 : 5 ) , who has pointed out that a sentence such as ( 12 ) is impossible because can " is not used to imply actuality in the past " : ( 12 ) * I ran fast and could catch the bus , Example ( 13 ) however is quite acceptable because it implies that the event did not take place , being seen merely as a possibility in the past ( i.e. a potentiality ) . |
| 5 | Knee and hip joints were creaking and it seemed that the prophecy made by doctors forty years before , that one day my legs and hips — the war left me with a short , stiff left leg — would really begin to seize up , was about to come true . |
| 6 | Most natural minerals are brittle because they are more or less homogeneous but it happens that a few have cleavage planes of about the right strength . |
| 7 | The work of Lifshitz and Khalatnikov was valuable because it showed that the universe could have had a singularity , a big bang , if the general theory of relativity was correct . |
| 8 | Detection of a semantic anomaly is highly informative because it indicates that an error may have been made either in understanding the context , or in perceiving the new unit . |
| 9 | Whether they had been worked at some preceding date is a matter of no little conjecture but is unlikely and it seems that the miners from Keswick started there in 1599 . |
| 10 | This is important because it suggests that the courts themselves may well be largely responsible for the dramatic increase in the number ( and proportion ) of triable either way cases coming before the Crown Court in recent years . |
| 11 | This last point is critical since it means that the number of common elements will be reduced and accordingly that discrimination between A and B will be enhanced . |
| 12 | The City was shocked when it learned that the Midland was the least profitable of the big four banks and had the weakest capital . |
| 13 | The little insert in the middle of the article , which I take it is not down to Sir Nicholas , is even more misleading because it suggests that the income eligibility limit on civil cases would be reduced from £3,060 to £2,293 . |
| 14 | A priori this latter feature might be thought somewhat undesirable as it implies that the higher the rate of growth of wealth the lower the share of the total portfolio held within the UK . |
| 15 | This was odd as it indicated that the winter flock had already scattered as separate pairs at this very early date . |
| 16 | The departure of Rauschning was significant because it meant that the last liberal conscience , the last internal barrier to the complete and violent Nazification of the city had now been removed . |
| 17 | Therefore the structures seen in ( 1a ) are acceptable ( where boldened material = expanded dip ) : whereas the structures seen in ( 1b ) are debarred : The treatment of these expanded dips is very plausible since it shows that the distribution of elements within the verse-line can be derived from phonological behaviour : verbal prefixes , for example , are exempted from the constraint on expanded dips , just as they are labelled as extra-metrical in word-stress derivations . |