Example sentences of "[noun] it [vb mod] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words it would mean that battles could be won which people have previously thought could not even be fought . |
| 2 | Mrs J. Ramsay MacDonald believed that while a prohibition on married women 's work would cause distress in the short term , in the long run it would ensure that men provided for their families . |
| 3 | and if we divvied up the exam fee on a fifty per cent basis it would mean that B A I E were getting twenty quid for doing nothing but probably more twenty quids than they would get normally because students who would be attracted in through Napier would be paying their forty quid as well |
| 4 | Director of psychological services at Broadmoor Hospital , Dr Derek Perkins , said last night : ‘ Sometimes sufferers actually go through painful operations and in the case of Munchausen 's by Proxy it would appear that Allitt 's motives were to create drama and attention . ’ |
| 5 | Among North Kensington laundresses , the local maxim was ‘ the best ironer gets the worst husband ’ , although within the local community it would appear that husbands and wives adjusted to the often superior earning power of the wife , and in at least one suburban district the custom prevailed whereby husbands remained responsible only for a sum which covered rent , the baker 's bill and boots for the family . |
| 6 | At first sight it might seem that Urban was hardly in a position to provide it ; he was without military resources of his own , and depended on such allies as he had to defend him against the Emperor Henry IV , who still refused to recognize him as pope . |
| 7 | At first sight it might seem that workers clearly gained from the onset of overaccumulation . |
| 8 | If Hughes was relevant to the decision in Foakes it must follow that Pinnel 's Case was equally relevant to the decision in Hughes but it was not cited in the latter case and it would surely have been very surprising it if had been . |
| 9 | ( Obviously in this case it would follow that women are not ‘ like God ’ in the way in which men are ‘ like God ’ , and Christology could not be compatible with feminism . ) |
| 10 | In order to make sense of a self that has ‘ survived ’ both discourses of colonialism it would seem that Bhimji 's strategy has been one of intense resourcefulness , gathering in herself and her experiences . |
| 11 | In order to draw this out of him , he wrote a vastly elaborate commentary on the Lay , softening the blow of his harsher criticisms by inventing the personae of a whole group of scholarly editors who are debating the text in the way that scholars have disputed over Homer or Beowulf It would seem that Tolkien took a great deal of notice of Lewis 's invented editors , for he rewrote his Kay and incorporated a high proportion of their emendations . |
| 12 | In the realm of secret diplomacy it would appear that public opinion had only a very minor role to play . |