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

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1	The staff nurse said that she had thought it strange that this statement should have been volunteered ‘ out of the blue ’ moments after her mother had arrived .
2	One critic thought it ironic that this building ‘ of which the aim was so obviously beauty , should have achieved so startling an ugliness ’ , but after more than a century Swanage would hardly seem the same place without it .
3	Even Weick does n't make it clear that this dilemma is not found only at the action level .
4	We will be able shortly to debate those matters more fully in the House , but we have on many occasions made it clear that this Parliament will decide on the single currency issue at some date well into the future if and when it should arise .
5	Criticisms within and without Parliament made it clear that this audit model of control was beginning to falter in the post-war period .
6	The marketing blitz has raged at full tilt for some time now , making it likely that this blockbuster will live up to its imperial ambitions .
7	You have always said that you think it important that this House should be given information first .
8	We would like to make it clear that this delay was not caused by any default on the part of the defendant who is charged with their murder nor by his legal advisers .
9	He has also asked us to make it clear that this plan is in no sense intended to be fixed and final .
10	As in much self-conscious fiction , we are constantly being reminded of the fictionality of the novel , but Verbivore makes it clear that this fictionality also applies to the ‘ simulations ’ of the media which its ‘ fictions ’ purportedly replace .
11	The lengthy preamble makes it clear that this Directive is a harmonisation measure requiring member states to equalise the level of protection granted to consumers when they enter into contracts with traders , businessmen or professionals .

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