Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] it [verb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or perhaps it proves that women tend to try to be attractive to upstage one another and they completely forget that men are going to find them attractive too . ’ |
| 2 | Then there was the controversy over how many centuries Gooch had scored and eventually it meant that the ton Gooch scored against India Under-25s at Cuttack at the end of last month was , in fact , the 99th , and not the magical 100th . |
| 3 | And so it emerges that on the conditional theory of knowledge it is possible to know that p and to know that p implies q without knowing that q . |
| 4 | And so it follows that most MainLan sales will likely result from software sales . |
| 5 | And so it happened that Jenny came to live with Winnie Bailey , rejoicing in her new flat and the modern kitchen where she had full scope for her passion for cooking . |
| 6 | The officer waited out in the corridor and so it happened that , on leaving , one of the nurses in a hurry to get home said : ‘ You could take her flowers if you 're going back in . ’ |
| 7 | However , for both choices of verb , one of the reference candidates is much more acceptable than the other , and so it seems that in this case , only a weak preference should be imposed , with reasoning expected to make the decision . |
| 8 | Single parent families are much more vulnerable to attack , and so it seems that the best option in this situation is to put the whole brood up for adoption . |
| 9 | We have already noted a connection between intermittent alcoholic mania and the growth of state power , and so it seems that these two apparently unrelated phenomena are in reality both part of the same process . |
| 10 | And thus it seems that liberal social democracy cossets and protects the aesthete as no other form of society does . |
| 11 | You could n't understand it and mockingly it seemed that you were n't meant to : it was all just there , a small-scale catastrophe , quite ordinary although it seemed not to be . |
| 12 | The Arnhem debacle effectively put an end to our hopes of peace by Christmas , and gradually it seemed that the combined Allied armies were slithering to a halt . |
| 13 | AST Research Inc is determined to come out as one of the winners in the bitter battle for share in the personal computer market , and yesterday it announced that rather than let the business go in the spin-off of the TE Electronics manufacturing operations , it had made an offer for Tandy Corp 's personal computer manufacturing operations , which had been accepted . |
| 14 | And yesterday it emerged that Britain 's inflation rate of 4.1pc had fallen below that of Germany for the first time in 25 years . |
| 15 | He 's , well not necessarily made his mind but you can suggest that he might , may have done and also it seems that Alfiera is slightly half hearted in the way he erm like tries to convince Eddie cos it seems that i it , I get the feeling that Alfiera already knows and just thinking well there 's no point in getting really het up about it , so he , he tries , he says look it 's not a good idea but in the end |
| 16 | For we must not misunderstand ourselves ; we are as much automatic as intellectual ; and hence it comes that the instrument by which conviction is attained is not demonstrated alone . |
| 17 | I had regarded the English language almost as my own private possession , something which was mine by right , and now it seemed that I was going to have to fight to hang on to it , as I was having to fight for everything else . |
| 18 | The kids had been sent to her mother 's house , and now it seemed that they had a new surrogate father . |
| 19 | And now it seemed that she had his understanding — and his love . |
| 20 | They had never even tried it until she had first seen Alain and now it seemed that every step she took was to be supervised . |
| 21 | ‘ We simply went to work like normal citizens during martial law and now it seems that 's a crime , ’ he went on , gesturing at the 20 heads of party factory cells who were gathered to discuss the future of communism in Poland . |
| 22 | And now it seems that I will go to my grave without meeting that special person . |
| 23 | And then it seemed that Duvall understood at last that he had been shot . |
| 24 | Erm and then it says that somebody called Natalie erm wrote in nineteen seventy five , that the greater somebody 's need for approval , the greater their tendency will be to converge with a style . |
| 25 | And then it got that it blew over did n't it ? |
| 26 | Well , maybe ‘ blossom ’ is an exaggeration , but I told Gillian one or two of Oliver 's jokes , and we talked about being apprehensive over coming to the group , and then it emerged that she was half-French , and I had something to say about that , and the estate agent tried to bring in Germany but we were n't having any of it , and before I knew where I was I had half-turned my shoulder to exclude the other chap and was saying , ‘ Look , I know you 've only more or less just arrived , but you would n't like a spot of supper would you ? |
| 27 | Moreover , men were selfish , cold-hearted and dull , and yet it seemed that , for some reason she could n't quite fathom , a woman needed to have a man around . |
| 28 | The antibiotics were being injected into the brain at doses sufficient to block all protein synthesis for several hours , and yet it appeared that no other aspect of the animal 's behaviour was affected — not its capacity to perform already learned tasks , to see and respond to the world around or to act otherwise ‘ normally ’ ; the only thing it seemingly could n't do was to memorize new tasks . |
| 29 | Time and again it appeared that people had given up secure employment to farm full-time . |
| 30 | That political crisis both drove and was driven by the economic crisis : but again and again it emerged that the key lay in politics . |