Example sentences of "[adv] it [be] [verb] that it " in BNC.
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| 1 | For no matter how much it is objected that it can not be stated definitely from these considerations just what the thing is like according to its nature , but only what it is like in respect to one thing or to another , it may still be said what there is in it which makes it appear to be this in respect to one thing and that in respect to another ; and consequently it may be said both to be one thing according to its nature and to be this or that in respect to other things . |
| 2 | Though when the meal was ended and they went outside it was to discover that it had begun to drizzle . |
| 3 | St Bartholomew 's church at Covenham was declining to the state of danger when a parish in California asked if they might have it and ship it stone by stone to the U.S.A. This caused much controversy for a while but finally it was decided that it should remain and be safely maintained on its original consecrated site . |
| 4 | The blast which had flung down the doors at the front had strangely left the windows intact , but when Pat arrived home it was decided that it would be better to leave Julia in the bed in the cellar . |
| 5 | So maybe it was fitting that it should begin here , at Nanking , where DeVore had first slipped the net . |
| 6 | Initially it was suggested that it was impossible , and that quasars were in fact relatively nearby objects , their large speeds of retreat arising because , perhaps , they were being spat out by our Galaxy in some unknown way . |
| 7 | For all that the Government is making a bit of er er idiot of itself by not embracing the things that it needs to embrace the things it needs to do , at least it 's saying that it wo n't do them . |
| 8 | Until quite recently it was considered that it was the crust that attained equilibrium with respect to the mantle , but it is now known that isostatic adjustments also involve the rigid mantle forming the lower part of the lithosphere . |