Example sentences of "[vb past] [subord] it [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bomb-shell exploded when it added that those sixty-six coupons must last for a whole year . |
| 2 | Woolwich paid because it calculated that it was in its commercial interest to do so . |
| 3 | Suddenly , Labour wobbled as it appeared that the Tories might have picked a genuine winner . |
| 4 | However , reports questioning Shah 's independence grew after it emerged that Irfanullah Marwat Khan , implicated in the alleged gang-rape of a close friend of the PPP leader Benazir Bhutto [ see p. 38683 ] , had been retained as an adviser to the new provincial government . |
| 5 | Bilateral negotiations between summit leaders aimed at reviving trade talks stalled over the issue of agricultural subsidies [ see pp. 38888-89 ] failed after it emerged that a breakthrough was unlikely before the French referendum in September on the Maastricht treaty or the US presidential elections in November . |
| 6 | No major EC country has ever been refused what it wanted when it declared that a vital national interest was at stake . |
| 7 | It refused as it knew that it could not do so and survive at home . |