Example sentences of "[adv] it [verb] [adj] [that] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Nevertheless it seems likely that change was forced on him , as earlier on such ‘ empirical ’ despots as Peter I in Russia and Frederick William I in Prussia , by the need for greater practical efficiency , and to some extent perhaps by an instinctive feeling for rationality , not by theories propounded in Paris . |
2 | Soon it became clear that Sarah was seriously ill with rheumatic fever and would not be able to work for some time , and another girl , Hetty , was engaged temporarily . |
3 | ‘ Thus it becomes clear that Representation is fraud ’ ( chapter I , ‘ Parliaments ’ ) . |
4 | Thus it became certain that Rennenkampf could not , for at least two , possibly three , days , come to Samsonov 's aid and that the entire German Eastern Group could , therefore , assail Samsonov 's right wing with impunity . |
5 | Thus it seems likely that examination questions in chemical engineering at degree level will bear certain similarities of form and content , and share certain presuppositions , in institutions throughout the world . |
6 | Thus it seems likely that health authorities were encouraged to be generous in the allocation of budgets , that fundholders were less concerned than they might otherwise have been about the need to stay within strict cash limits , and that non-fundholders were allowed greater freedom of referral than might have been anticipated . |
7 | Already it seems clear that superantigens are yet another example of microbial pathogens evolving mechanisms to use and subvert the immune response ; we shall hear more of their role in infective and autoimmune disease . |
8 | Clearly that justification collapsed once it became clear that shareholders in large public companies no longer exercised any real control or responsibility over their property . |
9 | Even now it seemed incredible that Mark — cynical , idle , sophisticated Mark , had actually joined that file of Catholic students who , during Holy Week , carried a heavy wooden Cross through the public streets and along the open road between London and Our Lady 's shrine at Walsingham . |
10 | Then it becomes clear that politicians , for example , can be involved in processes of policy-making , implementation , evaluation and adjudication . |
11 | Very little is known about what triggers most animal viruses to follow either path ; indeed it seems possible that integration is a random and accidental process that does not occur at any specific sites on the chromosomes . |
12 | Yet it remains true that Julian 's experience can be fruitfully compared to that of the prophets of Israel , for example , or to that of Muhammad , the prophet of Islam . |
13 | Yet it seems clear that Eisenhower acted only when he was convinced that delay or vacillation might prove even more dangerous . |
14 | Yet it seems likely that resources would actually be better used in other prevention programmes . |
15 | From the beginning of 1984 when it seemed probable that Lord Hailsham would soon resign as Lord Chancellor , Sir John was widely discussed as his probable successor in the Thatcher cabinet . |
16 | After the meeting of the Cabinet held that same Sunday evening , when it became apparent that agreement could not be reached on the economy package , MacDonald , on his way to the palace , told Sir Ernest Harvey , the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England : ‘ I am off to the Palace to throw in my hand . ' |
17 | Since early last year , when it became clear that sales and profits were falling , the board has been pondering how ICI should be rationalised . |
18 | Again and again it became apparent that politics had not brought most of these youngsters to the YCs . |
19 | Certainly it seems likely that women will find themselves ever more firmly trapped at the bottom of the office hierarchy as a result of the introduction of information technology . |