Example sentences of "it [vb infin] that the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Does it make does it matter that the land is elevated above the road , above the A Nineteen ?
2 Does it matter that the present is so substantial that it is a powerful inducement to marry ?
3 Nor does it matter that the stereotypes are internally contradictory .
4 Examples like these make it appear that the performance of manufacturers ' software can always be bettered .
5 Not least , the absence of any serious rationing of consumer goods , and the large number of exemptions from military service for skilled workers and farmers made it appear that the regime was well in control of developments , did not fear a war on the 1914–18 scale , and was even rather generous in its provisioning arrangements .
6 And , further , how does it appear that the testator 's implied request , if it could be implied , or his promise , if that promise alone would suffice , or both together , were intended to cause the marriage , or did cause it , so that the marriage can be said to have taken place at the testator 's request , or , in other words , in consequence of that request ?
7 Mrs. Hamblin had not intended to make it appear that the car belonged to the trader .
8 Only much later , in court , did it transpire that the witness could not possibly have seen the suspect 's face at the distance 75 metres in conditions of semi-darkness .
9 So , if erm so your , your , your principal complaint , I maybe wrong it maybe not your principal , look at page a hundred and twenty seven for your assistance , erm standard form of agreements restricted competitions , the service of the petitions or the agents provided so this is names and thereby restrict the competition as the agents them say erm then impose on that it was a regime etcetera , erm that the , the competitive the anti competitive one is your sub paragraph one is n't it ? , on page one , two , seven your saying look here is a of , of dictated through their bi-laws , a standard form that all agents must use , you say , erm , er that that restricts competition because it means that agents are free , or as free as they ought to be , erm to compete with each other or providing services to outside names , I follow that , I did n't say I except it , but I follow that entirely , erm , but does n't , does n't , if you 're right does n't it follow that the agreements are void ?
10 Nor does it follow that the distinction can always be drawn .
11 Only later did it emerge that the Germans had supported his candidature for the post of High Commissioner in Danzig , and that he had since 1920 been on very friendly terms with Baron Ernst von Wiesäker , the head of the political section of the German Foreign Office .
12 Only then did it emerge that the settlers did not really know what they intended to do .
13 While stating in paragraph fourteen that development plans should make no reference to the possibility of allowing other development in exceptional circumstances , nowhere in the P P G does it suggest that the authority should exclude the possibility that very special circumstances could justify an exception to be made .
14 But how did it happen that the Davy miner 's lamp worked out so well for the owners and so badly for the miners ?
15 Nor does it indicate that the bag was actually loaded on Pan Am 103 .
16 Does it indicate that the meaning of an idiom can not be inferred from ( or , more precisely , can not be accounted for as a compositional function of ) the meanings the parts carry IN THAT EXPRESSION ?
17 If Elster 's analogy is not false , does it mean that the United Kingdom system of government lacks legitimacy ?
18 Or does it mean that the problems of environmental degradation are being magnified and transferred to hitherto uncompromised regions ?
19 However , careful analysis shows that the meaning of this provision is still not clear : for instance , does " terminate … and recover … or retain " mean that the seller may either ( 1 ) terminate and recover or ( 2 ) retain , or does it mean that the seller may terminate and either ( 1 ) recover or ( 2 ) retain ?
20 Does it mean that the survivor will never see them again in whatever sort of afterlife they envisage ?
21 Nor does it mean that the project acquisitions were not used .
22 Our quarrel is with the notion that underpins it , namely that methods are atheoretical which makes it seem that the choice of a research method is governed by technical criteria .
23 Is the proliferation of training schemes and employment agencies merely a move a ) to reduce unemployment statistics b ) to make it seem that the government is doing something without it having to positively intervene economically in a massive problem ?
24 Reuben Haredale 's steward , who murders his master for money , and also the latter 's gardener in circumstances that shall make it seem that the body , when discovered , is that of Rudge himself .
25 This example makes it seem that the consumer price is raised by the full amount of the tax .
26 His example makes it seem that the circle is not simply a detachable result of , or something which can be considered in isolation from , certain motions , but rather something whose very nature and properties are essentially tied up with its method of production .
27 Nor did it help that the morning , which had started so bright , began to cloud over .
28 While the councillors felt it appropriate that the Church Hall should be put to some use they objected to the proposal for a function room and made the following points :
29 What 's it say that the people who do n't like being in groups
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