Example sentences of "it that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an implicit reminder that 380,000 Soviet troops were still stationed on East German soil , he said : ‘ We firmly declared that we will see to it that no harm comes to the GDR . ’ |
| 2 | Mungo realized as he said it that no policeman would ever admit to anything being exciting . |
| 3 | As often we are at the mercy of his laconic whim : why is it that no trust is involved ? |
| 4 | Since then , scurrilous rumours have had it that no proceedings were to be published . |
| 5 | Why is it that no movement of spiritual renewal has ever lasted longer than the third generation ? |
| 6 | And , if so , would Suzie be so blinded by it that no appeal to her would prevail ? |
| 7 | He did not as yet know all the details of how they had died , and what had gone before , but rumour had it that no great physical strength had been involved so that you could not rule out a woman as the killer . |
| 8 | Evolution must surely have seen to it that a good proportion of our thoughts are true of the world , and so in some simple sense the mind must perform computations which record the world and direct our behaviour appropriately . |
| 9 | I had the feeling on reading it that a dam had just burst , and that she had a great deal more to say . |
| 10 | How was it that a major piece of canal engineering came to be constructed on one of the least profitable stretches of a minor and dilapidated canal , in the heart of rural England , at a time when the prospects for canals were at their gloomiest ? |
| 11 | Whatever the reason , you will have to take my word for it that a hill-walk is still an exhilarating day out even when you ca n't see a thing . |
| 12 | What possible sense can there be in a legal rule , for example , which has it that a woman is presumed fertile even though she is past menopause or has undergone a hysterectomy operation ? |
| 13 | How is it that a large cavern with a high roof may be formed underground ? |
| 14 | Probing questions are asked : Why is it that a number of students , broadly successful across most of their subjects , have all done badly in … |
| 15 | ( Rumour has it that a diet of Scottish scones and cookies can alleviate some of the effects of lead . |
| 16 | The Stewarts had another residence , in Renfrewshire , and it was while they were visiting it that a tragedy occurred . |
| 17 | Why is it that a specific person has the indefinable ‘ It ’ and another has not ? |
| 18 | Somewhere in the middle of the fifteenth century , legend has it that a little girl was tending sheep here when a young lady came to play with her . |
| 19 | But rumour has it that a sevens tournament is going to be organised in Moscow in September to decide who takes over the Soviet place : Russia , Ukraine , Georgia , Latvia or Kazakhstan . |
| 20 | Exasperated with all this pussy-footing , and knowing of Mountbatten 's wishes that what he had said should be known , I saw to it that a transcript of the Suez programme reached my friend Bernard Levin at The Times , and he published the core of it in two long articles . |
| 21 | It is as if each writer had taken the memory of some powerful event ( the terrible shock of being woken by a piercing noise ; discovering the ‘ magical ’ properties of magnets ) and daydreamed in such a concentrated way about it that a group of people , a situation , a story began to emerge . |
| 22 | Legend has it that a real giant terrorised the locals . |
| 23 | Wittgenstein explicitly rejects what Locke and Brentano unquestioningly accept , namely that there is a perfectly proper epistemological question , ‘ How is it that a person can say what he himself believes , expects , hopes , and so on ? ’ to which the answer is that he must have observed in himself a mental operation , process , state , or whatever you like to call it , of believing , expecting , hoping , and so on . |
| 24 | The real problem is that Televisa 's experience in Mexico may have convinced it that a strategy which worked well in a market where the company was protected by the government is one that will succeed in the face of intense competition . |
| 25 | We regularly take it that a causal circumstance is linked by way of a causal chain or sequence to its effect . |
| 26 | We do indeed have it that a causal circumstance necessitated its effect . |
| 27 | What do we have in mind in taking it that a causal circumstance makes an effect happen ? |
| 28 | How is it that a method which has failed elsewhere in relevantly similar circumstances suffices to yield knowledge this time ? |
| 29 | If we take it that a Conservative defeat is most probable , we assert the subjunctive conditional . |
| 30 | Again , this may explain that phenomenon which is central to the relevance of discourse analysis to language teaching : how is it that a student with an advanced proficiency in pronunciation , grammar , and lexis somehow fails to use these language skills to communicate successfully ? |