Example sentences of "it [that] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Legend has it that Oliver Cromwell on his way to lay siege to Middleton Hall during the Civil War found the old packhorse bridge too narrow for his cannons and wagons and so had the bridge widened . |
| 2 | Is it that institutions have to prepare people to work in traditional as well as up-to-date professional settings , and so can not afford to be too ‘ progressive ’ ? |
| 3 | Why is it that Europeans never quite fall victim to British women 's curse — the puffy pear shape ? |
| 4 | Except Ellwood was keeping an eye on everyone and seeing to it that East Germany got the news . |
| 5 | The Municipal Alliance does not believe in doles , and if their candidates were returned they would do their best to stop this out-going of public funds and try to see to it that schemes of relief were brought forward under the plans which the Minister of Labour had outlined . |
| 6 | Buttons reached for it and it was n't until they were flying it that Artemis saw the four-foot drop the other side . |
| 7 | Legend has it that Rhodes , largest of the Dodecanese islands set in the blue Aegean Sea , was home to the sun god Helios … and little wonder given this island 's mild climate and long sun-drenched summer days . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll see to it that Polly do n't get into any debt again , do n't you worry . ’ |
| 9 | In 1934 he proposed to it that Palestine and Transjordan should be united under his crown , the Arabs recognizing the Mandate , including Jewish rights , and each state keeping its own political status with the respective prime ministers reporting to Abdallah . |
| 10 | The voice was deep and had a drawl to it that Lizzy did n't like . |
| 11 | Why is it that mayors only existed in Lewes for a hundred years seeing it 's such an old town ? |
| 12 | Why is it that mayors only existed in Lewes for a hundred years , seeing it 's such an old town ? |
| 13 | Several other sets of doors were dotted around the floor and , far off to the left , a black maw opened up in the wall , with so little light coming from it that Benny was certain the tunnel beyond turned several times before reaching the outside world . |
| 14 | One school of thought has it that managers of large private corporations are more or less their own masters ( Berle and Means , 1932 ) . |
| 15 | And what 's more , if she 'd been about in your time , instead of that man , nice little Neville Chamberlain , she 'd have given your old Hitler a few right-handers below the belt ; and seen to it that Britain was armed to the teeth , with an airforce twice the size of the Luftwaffe instead of a few old men with pitch forks and a handful of plucky chaps like yourself to keep the Nazis out . |
| 16 | If market interaction takes place repeatedly , however , why is it that firms are assumed to ignore this and treat each decision as if it were a move in a ‘ one-shot ’ game ? |
| 17 | First of all , contradictions can only be identified in the context of the whole , because it is only within it that states of affairs become incompatible with one another . |
| 18 | This is not the only argument for integrity , or the only consequence of recognizing it that citizens might value . |
| 19 | ‘ Why is it that pansies seem to run the best restaurants ? ’ |
| 20 | Legend has it that ZEUS granted the boy immortality on condition that he remain forever slumbering . |
| 21 | But the question must arise : what was it that Handel and his assistant would have thought of as a large harpsichord in 1750 ? |
| 22 | I do n't care how different he is underneath , ’ she cut through Davide 's protests , ‘ how much bluster it is , blusterers make poor husbands , never could make a woman happy for more than five minutes , and anyway , Caterina can do better and I 'll see to it that Rosalba does better too . |
| 23 | What was it that Manisha was missing so desperately ? |
| 24 | Received opinion , based unduly on the word of sister Elisabeth , has it that Nietzsche began with the idea of a large book on Greek culture which , under Wagner 's influence and again its author 's real inclinations , was gradually whittled down to a book on Greek tragedy — and Wagner . |
| 25 | After only a week of filming his third American film , Kidnapped , in 1937 , he was fired by Darryl F Zanuck after an argument , and Zanuck saw to it that Preminger was virtually blacklisted . |
| 26 | PREVIOUS whisky industry wisdom had it that Whyte & Mackay , largest minority shareholder of Invergordon Distillers since it made its hostile bid , was going to wait for yesterday 's results and , if they were sufficiently poor to drive down the share price , would then pounce for the remaining 8.8 per cent of shares to give it control . |
| 27 | How is it that beliefs about our present sensory states need no support from others , while all other beliefs require such support ? |
| 28 | Is it that G Ps do n't read the literature that comes with the drugs . |
| 29 | Rumour has it that Sierra were then approached by IBM themselves , to produce a product that would take advantage of the colour graphic features of their forthcoming wonder machine the IBM PCjr . |
| 30 | Rumour has it that Spain , off whose coast Britain dumps nuclear waste each summer , may support a ban as well . |