Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [that] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had a small receptive field that was somewhat elongated vertically , and on examination with elongated stimuli it became clear that it responded well to a vertical bar but not at all to a horizontal bar . |
| 2 | The government lost credibility and became increasingly unpopular as it became evident that it had failed to meet the targets which it had set itself in the March 1990 radical economic austerity plan [ see pp. 37312-13 ; 37371 ] . |
| 3 | However , it made clear that it tried to keep the duration of such layoffs to a minimum , and suggested also that it was its industrial , not its secretarial/office staff , who were most likely to be affected by them ( interview with Manpower ) . |
| 4 | It seemed impossible that it had happened , but from his pocket he unwound the cord and let it dangle from his hand . |
| 5 | Since two different groups of headlines appear in E [ the last sheet but three ] it is obvious that an interruption occurred while E was printing ; and it appears probable that it came about because the printer abruptly decided to run off a small number of complete copies of the book for sale while the opera was being presented and then to finish the entire edition at leisure . |
| 6 | As an apparently domestic residence it seems strange that it replaced a timber structure which has been interpreted as a temple , although time elapsed between the latter 's destruction and the building of the house ; it is unusual to find so deliberate a secularization of a religious site in the Roman world . |
| 7 | It seems possible that it operated fitfully until the spring of 1911 . |
| 8 | But it is striking how little , either in internal reports or in those of the Sopade , the ‘ Jewish Question ’ figures in remarks about Hitler 's popular standing , and it seems unlikely that it formed , for most ‘ ordinary ’ Germans , the main reason for their adulation of the Führer . |
| 9 | Without the original bill we can not be certain of the government 's objectives ; but on balance it seems unlikely that it wished to replace statutory legislation by proclamation . |
| 10 | It seems sensible that it goes with wherever the |
| 11 | If there is a single function relating arousal and memory it seems likely that it takes the inverted-U shape which is often suggested to describe the relationship between task performance and memory , with memory impairments occurring at very low or very high levels of arousal . |
| 12 | This is no accident ; it seems likely that it results from a deliberate policy decision taken somewhere on high . |
| 13 | But though Venus does not seem to be geologically moribund it seems likely that it has not been as geologically active as the Earth and that no global system of Plate Tectonics has ever developed . |
| 14 | It seems likely that it involved the utilisation of the X-rays emitted by the fission bomb trigger to propagate the explosion throughout the charge of thermonuclear fuel ; travelling at the speed of light they could initiate the fusion reaction in all parts of the charge in a time much less than could be achieved by shock waves ( travelling at perhaps 104m/s ) , so that a substantial degree of reaction Could occur before the material was dispersed by the explosion ( New Scientist , 2 September , 1982 , p641 ) . |
| 15 | Although John 's overt behaviour was sometimes violent , it seems likely that it masked a pervasive sense of anxiety , although the precise nature of the anxiety was not clear . |
| 16 | I 've devoted so much time and energy to creating Tessa and it feels marvellous that it 's actually come off , ’ she says taking a big puff on her roll-up . |
| 17 | I want to read all of it to make sure that it appears in Hansard . |