Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [be] [v-ing] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since most versions of legal theory are at least partial visions of law it is unsurprising that the criminal law will throw up both confirmations and refutations of most legal theories . |
| 2 | In one argument it is pronouncing that huntsmen are having fun , while five sentences later it is saying they are cruel and wicked . |
| 3 | In the passage just cited for example it is striking that Cixous includes the Hegelian dialectic in the forms of political oppression which she describes . |
| 4 | With such a carefully organised operation it 's puzzling that Langan 's should be so unwelcoming . |
| 5 | In a changing world it is reassuring that some things never change . |
| 6 | None can work well in isolation and for that reason it is reassuring that the CBI , in pressing its case for the TECs to be the local regulators of vocational training , stresses the importance of the young person 's ( and the adult worker 's ) " personal file " , building on the existing good practice of records of achievement in schools . |
| 7 | He too , was proud and as he looked round the crowded pews of St Christopher 's in Englefield , New Jersey , he thought of what a good turn-out it was considering that so many of them had come up from New York . |
| 8 | In a way it was flattering that they should take his word . |
| 9 | In making its threat it was recognizing that altered circumstances might drive it , and ‘ a lot of Loyalists ’ , to Take the Side of the Other . |
| 10 | Cable & Wireless Plc 's Mercury Communications Ltd seems to have run into trouble with its trial of personal numbering announced last August : at that stage it was saying that trials of the technology — which would enable subscribers to use any phone to inform the network of their whereabouts — would begin in the autumn of last year . |