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

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1 In contrast to this it is estimated that alcohol is a factor in 30 per cent of murders , 45 per cent of assaults and 88 per cent of criminal damage arrests .
2 Out of this it was agreed that services ( unemployment relief , pensions , education , etc. ) were provided at a similar level to those in Britain and if there was any money left , an ‘ imperial contribution ’ was paid towards the cost of common services such as the armed forces and the cost of conducting foreign policy .
3 In 1933 it was suggested that Mosley should visit the new German leader , Adolf Hitler , and discuss with him the future of Fascism in Britain .
4 On March 12 it was announced that Egypt and Iran had each decided to set up an " interests office " in the other 's capital " as a first step towards the restoration of full diplomatic relations between the two countries " , according to Arab Republic of Egypt radio .
5 On Jan. 30 it was reported that Hernando de Soto , a key adviser and personal representative of Fujimori , had resigned , alleging that officials in coca-growing areas were co-operating with drug traffickers .
6 On Sept. 2 it was announced that Algeria would once again attempt to find a " lasting political solution " to the Tuareg question through diplomatic discussions with its neighbours .
7 On August the 12th 1991 it was feared that Brian Waites might not live , let alone play golf ever again .
8 On Nov. 7 it was announced that Lithuania and Bulgaria had signed a trade and most-favoured nation treaty in Sofia .
9 In November 1898 it was said that effigies representing ‘ Hooliganism ’ were burned on Guy Fawkes Night , although the new folk devil was destined for even more global notoriety .
10 On April 26 it was announced that Tesfaye Dinka , Deputy Prime Minister in charge of Foreign Affairs and a US-trained economist , had been made Prime Minister ( a post vacant since November 1989 ) , with a brief to form a new Cabinet composed of individuals " who can stand up for Ethiopian unity " .
11 On May 26 it was announced that Vladimir , Metropolitan of Rostov and Novocherkassk had been elected new head of the UOC .
12 On Feb. 26 it was reported that Andras Galszecsy had resigned as Minister without Portfolio in charge of national security affairs .
13 In Perkins v Jeffrey [ 1915 ] , 5 KB 702 it was said that evidence could be called to prove a similar course of conduct towards other females where a defence of accident or mistake is put forward .
14 On 1 July 1941 it was announced that Spain 's position was of " moral belligerence " .
15 On March 21 it was announced that members of the armed forces who had left for political reasons after June 1978 were to be reinstated .
16 On July 21 it was announced that Ghozali had been appointed Algerian ambassador to Paris [ see also below ] .
17 At the Essex Forest Eyre of 1277 it was presented that Alexander Not of Havering had entered the Abbess of Barking 's wood and felled an oak .
18 On Oct. 31 it was announced that Otto Schily , a leading member of the moderate Realos , was leaving and joining the SPD .
19 On March 31 it was reported that US Secretary of State James Baker had sent a letter to Savimbi demanding a full explanation of the charges made by N'Zau Puna and Fernandes .
20 On Nov. 18 it was revealed that Bennett was Bush 's choice to succeed Lee Atwater as Republican Party chairman in January 1991 .
21 On June 18 it was reported that Armenia had called up reservists aged under 35 , and a one-month state of emergency was declared in Nagorny Karabakh .
22 In the leadership elections scheduled for mid-February 1992 it was expected that Peres would be challenged by Rabin .
23 By 1884 it was announced that Murchison 's interpretation of a simple succession of strata was untenable .
24 By May 1913 it was expected that Emmeline Pankhurst would die from hunger and thirst strikes .
25 However , in Family Housing Association v Jones [ 1990 ] 1 WLR 779 it was held that occupants of property granted to them as homeless persons were secure tenants .
26 On July 17 it was decreed that foreigners of Albanian nationality and origin should " upon their request be granted Albanian nationality , maintaining or not the nationality of their own state " .
27 On Nov. 17 it was admitted that Vukovar had fallen to JNA forces , after an 86-day seige .
28 On April 17 it was reported that Dudayev and the deputy C.-in-C. of CIS armed forces , Col.-Gen .
29 On Nov. 5 it was reported that Israel 's Supreme Court had rejected a petition by Mordechai Vananu to be allowed to clarify events surrounding his detention .
30 How comforting it is to know that Charles can communicate so well with people who are 40 or 50 years older than himself .
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