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

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1 The number of insertions of Shepard ventilation tubes was recorded for each child , and it became apparent that ears treated with tubes alone required significantly more tubes ( mean 2.48 , SD 1.39 ) than those receiving tubes in combination with adenoidectomy ( 1.52 , 0.85 ; p=0.0001 ) .
2 The radiocarbon discrepancy was confirmed and it became clear that radiocarbon results would need to be calibrated to convert them to calendar ages .
3 Some of the extreme cases ( such as the Yorkshire miners who would strike unless electricity were connected to their village ) did reach the public eye , and it became clear that Citrine was not fooling when he said there were many equally damaging examples for which the chairmen would insist on pinning the blame where it belonged — on government .
4 But look more closely at the statistics , look at what is really happening on the streets and in the shops , look at how people 's lives are changing , and it becomes clear that things are not nearly as bad as they are painted .
5 All brightness and colour had gone , and it seemed possible that Ilbrec had sent her right out of the world , away into nothingness .
6 And it seems undeniable that ICMESA was in possession of a plant which , had it not been modified , would not have exploded .
7 ‘ Linen is very popular today and it seems certain that trend will remain for years ’ , says the Guild 's spokeswoman Rita Vail .
8 Two extensions at La Hague are already 18 months behind schedule , and it seems certain that fuel assemblies will have to be packed tighter in the pools .
9 The king was more distressed by his death than by that of any other person except his own sister , and it seems certain that Berkeley would have received further advancement had he lived .
10 Various authors have attributed these emissions to Ti and Mn respectively but , as Walker ( 1985 ) pointed out , the spectral bands are present in highly pure synthetic silica , and it seems certain that emission is intrinsic rather than due to impurities .
11 Certainly many of the ordinary rank and file , like William Joyce in the early years , were of this nature ; and it seems significant that J. Havelock Wilson of the Seaman 's Union , a stalwart of working-class anti-socialist movements , spoke at an anti-Bolshevik meeting stewarded by 600 fascists at the Royal Albert Hall in 1926 ii
12 But EC politicians are meeting later this month to discuss maternity rights and it seems likely that Britain will be forced to bring in a more generous package .
13 Some bacteria , such as the one that causes syphilis , have flagellae ; and it seems likely that flagellae and cilia originated as parasitic bacteria which , instead of causing disease , remained and became incorporated into the cell as the relationship was mutually beneficial .
14 There have been smiths for very many years and it seems likely that workings excavated at Killellan by Colin Burgess in 1974 were those of a bronze age smith .
15 Acetylcholine ( ACh ) and the enzymes that hydrolyse and synthesize it ( acetylcholine esterase and choline acetylase ) are present in relatively large quantities in insects ( Smallman and Mansing , 1969 ) and it seems likely that acetylcholine is a transmitter at neuropilar axo-axonic synapses ; y-aminobutyric acid ( GABA ) may also play a part in synaptic transmission in the neuropile .
16 Library co-operatives rarely require much financial outlay but a minimum resource required is some staff time , and it seems likely that authorities with designated training officers ( or teams ) , are going to be in a much stronger position to be able to utilize the considerable potential possibilities of library co-operatives .
17 Moreover , what this episode testifies to is a resurgence of the power of the southern Saxons as they sought to further their own ascendancy in the south-east , the foundation of which had been laid by Wulfhere , and it seems likely that Eadric was established as king in Kent as a southern Saxon satellite .
18 In the summer of 1101 , faced with Robert 's landing in England and the immediate prospect of widespread desertion , Henry went so far as to promise a general obedience to the papal decrees , and it seems likely that Anselm 's activity on his behalf , secured by this promise , turned the tide in his favour , and brought Duke Robert 's invasion to a halt .
19 Staphylococcus aureus and alpha haemolytic streptococci were the most commonly identified organisms and were usually isolated from the biopsy channel of the endoscope and it seems likely that needle tip contamination is the chief culprit .
20 There was , moreover , a considerable amount of discretion in terms of what might count as ‘ violence ’ in a street robbery , and it seems likely that street robbers were more commonly charged with ‘ bag-snatching ’ which was regarded as a less serious offence than ‘ robbery with violence ’ .
21 And it seems likely that charities are being specifically targetted , as Simon Garrett explains
22 At least the politicians who told the story can hardly have believed it , and it seems unlikely that people swallowed whole everything that they were told by their masters in antiquity , any more than they do now .
23 It is evident that Ollier ( 1981 ) , although making a plea for a more evolutionary geomorphology , does not cite the quantitatively expressed geophysical research and it seems unlikely that geomorphology can contribute in such areas unless it is willing to adopt the methods and language of other practitioners .
24 They say that ‘ nothing happens to the bad ‘ uns ’ , but it seemed unbelievable that misfortune should strike Arthur yet again directly after his triumphs at the Horse of The Year Show .
25 It meant however that we had little time to relate our studies at any deep level to Buddhism , but it seemed unanswerable that people must have a deep understanding of their own faith before they can go on to study that of other people .
26 But it becomes clear that Krashen is not thinking of theory in general , that is to say of a theoretical perspective on pedagogy , but of a theory in particular which can be applied directly ; not , therefore , of the process of referring actual problems to abstract ideas but the process of making practice conform to a preconceived conceptual pattern .
27 One can only guess at the reasons for such underreporting ; but it seems possible that exporters understate values in the hope of retaining part of the foreign exchange that they would otherwise be obliged to surrender to the authorities , while importers may wish to minimize their import duties ( and also avoid enquiries into the source of the foreign exchange used for imports ) .
28 Pearson & Bell ( 1919 ) undertook a far more extensive analysis , but it seems probable that Parsons ' original measurements are still the most reliable known , especially those of the femoral head diameter ( Thieme , 1957 ) .
29 At the time of writing , its report is still awaited , but it seems certain that legislation will shortly be introduced to end or sharply to modify the present law .
30 It will be argued that every event of the war can not be covered in one volume , but it seems strange that Brown saw fit to include a chapter on the making of the film of the Somme .
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