Example sentences of "[noun] it [be] [verb] [that] [adj] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 In the experiment it was found that all three methods produced results that were better than random selection — but the domain specific methods were far superior to the domain-general method ( DG was 27% better than chance , the DS methods both roughly twice as good as chance ) .
2 As there was no meeting of minds to the interpretation of the Labour Court Recommendation it was agreed that both the Banks and IBOA should revert to the parties who sought the clarification of the Labour Court Recommendation i.e. Kevin Duffy of Irish Congress of Trade Unions and Turlough O'Sullivan of I.B.E.C. ( formerly FIE ) .
3 On behalf of the defendant it was argued that some limitation had to be placed on the word " practice " and the natural and proper limitation was to imply the words " as medical practitioners " .
4 As a result of her lecture demonstration it is hoped that some physiotherapy patients may be recommended to attend Medau classes .
5 In one study of a small group of wrist-slashers it was found that more than half were well , or had shown improvement , 5–6 years later ( Nelson and Grunebaum 1971 ) .
6 In the future it is envisaged that all three methods will be available as alternative input techniques for computers , perhaps including shorthand as a fourth .
7 In the last chapter it was explained that some of the world 's languages are ‘ tone languages ’ , in which substituting one distinctive tone for another on a particular word or morpheme can cause a change in the dictionary ( ‘ lexical ’ ) meaning of that word or morpheme , or in some aspect of its grammatical categorisation .
8 At the inception of the previous chapter it was said that all grants of power to public bodies could be broken down into two parts : if X exists , you may or shall do Y.
9 It is interesting to note that the human gastric tumour cell line HGT-1 , which was derived from a primary tumour originating in an non-antral part of the stomach , had histamine 2 receptor which responded , maximally to much higher histamine concentrations of 10 - 3 to 10 - 4 M. Cells from the duodenum did not possess the histamine 2 receptor and in this study it was shown that two colorectal tumour cell lines did not seem to possess histamine 2 receptor indicating location of histamine 2 receptor may be confined to the gastric area .
10 There were red faces when halfway through an interview it was noticed that veteran Hal Roach , who produced the Laurel and Hardy movies , had not buttoned up his trousers properly .
11 Although theoretically any potency can be used , in practice it was found that some potencies were more effective than others .
12 From these relationships it was established that total leakages ( T + S + M ) must equal total injections ( G + I + X ) .
13 In the United States it is reported that some 35 million heart attacks and strokes occur each year .
14 However , he points out that the effects of the testosterone rises appear to affect men more than women — in a study in the United States it was found that teenage boys felt sexier when their testosterone levels were high , whereas their female counterparts were more affected by peer group activity ( ie what their friends were doing ) .
15 When considering a whole range of variables it is found that those social characteristics indicative of a low position of wealth or status do not appear among persons treated as criminal more often than one would expect from their proportion among the general population .
16 Concerning QUARRIED ROCK it is felt that any future development should be constrained only by points 2 and 4 above .
17 In some areas it was acknowledged that these plots contributed substantially to the food supply .
18 In some areas it was reported that large numbers of troops had ben deployed to restore order .
19 In February it was announced that 147,950 Volga Germans had migrated from the Soviet Union to Germany in 1990 .
20 So rather than pay nine pounds ninety pence it 's claimed that many lorry drivers take a detour through gloucester , then heading back down the A48 through Newhnam .
21 In most of the early work on quantity constrained models it was assumed that any observed general unemployment had to be either classical or Keynesian but not both at the same time .
22 Although the original idea had been directed to the whole of the diocese it was felt that any pilot project should be confined to a smaller area .
23 In early ethnic models of settlement origin it was assumed that this was a Celtic pattern of settlement , but could it be that this pattern in fact represents the oldest arrangements in the landscape ?
24 In December it was announced that 11 prisoners had been given the death sentence , commuted to life imprisonment .
25 Also in December it was reported that secret trials of Beijing students who had participated in the protests had begun .
26 On the day after Aquino 's announcement it was reported that 28 congressmen and 22 governors had broken with the LDP and announced their support for Ramos .
27 There were times — notably in the immediate postwar years and during the early 1970s — when it seemed that the gap between the two halves of the country was beginning to narrow ( Damesick and Wood , 1987 ) , but with the benefit of hindsight it is seen that these were periods when special factors were operating ( McCrone , 1969 ; Massey , 1979 ) .
28 The discovery of a species of Guarea ( Meliaceae ) with its own roots growing up into its hollow trunk , shortcircuiting the nutrient cycle , seemed excellent evidence in support of the hypothesis , though in Jamaica it was found that many such hollow trees were full of roots , but some of them were from trees that were not merely different individuals , but of different species !
29 ( " on examination it is seen that these ideas are not so very original after all " )
30 A person 's membership of the committee is automatically terminated : ( i ) if he becomes bankrupt ( his trustee replaces him ) or he compounds with his creditors ; ( ii ) if he is not present or represented at three consecutive meetings ( unless at the third meeting it is resolved that this rule will not apply ) ; and ( iii ) if he ceases to be or is found never to have been a creditor ( r 6.158 ) .
  Next page