Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] [adj] [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the 1790s higher spending on poor relief , although it convinced many contemporaries that the incidence of poverty was increasing , probably did not , except in particularly bad years , reflect much other than the increase in population and in food prices . |
| 2 | The theory was a good scientific theory , in the sense described in Chapter 1 : it was simple and it made definite predictions that could be tested by observation . |
| 3 | News of his work with the handicapped also leaked out at the centre and it became common knowledge that he was using the OBEX swimming-pool . |
| 4 | Indeed , it had even baulked over the European Payments Union for five months until it gained complete assurance that it would still be able to retain sole control over sterling as an international reserve currency . |
| 5 | A local authority would be expected to offer these services before seeking an order unless it had clear evidence that the parents would be unwilling or incapable of making use of them . |
| 6 | It did not worry about women 's invisibility precisely because it accepted prevailing views that politics should be left to men , that the proper forum for female participation is inevitably the family and that the main function of the politically competent woman is to socialise the children and to filter the needs of home and family into the political system . |
| 7 | Temporary upsurges in militancy during the year , in particular around the question of British intervention in Russia and Ireland , provoked principled stands at national and local levels , not least because it deflected anti-Bolshevik propaganda that had been used consistently against Labour . |
| 8 | But his own reasoning was different : there were questions he wanted to ask and things he wanted to consider before it became common knowledge that MacQuillan had received a threat typed on a newsroom machine . |
| 9 | Racal proved this conclusively when it announced last spring that it was planning to sell off part of the Vodafone mobile telecoms operation . |