Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adj] that the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Reid 's religion was the love of humanity and she found it hard that the first women 's college should win so very little understanding or support at its outset , especially from men . |
| 2 | If they were on a joint engagement and he was trying to make an important speech , he found it irksome that the following day the papers were more exercised with the length of her hemline than his words . |
| 3 | Certainly , by the 1740s , the Swedish taxonomist Linnaeus found it incredible that the fifty-six hundred species he had named could have been crammed into the elaborate vessels designed by biblical literalists . |
| 4 | Informed sources in the Caribbean thought it likely that the political maneouvrings behind all this were by way of a reprisal for a report by Lord Avebury criticizing Forbes Burnham 's ruling party for election-rigging . |
| 5 | The official results announced on Dec. 30 made it apparent that the second round of voting scheduled for Jan. 16 , 1992 , would almost certainly produce a FIS government . |
| 6 | The COI also made it widely-known that the shy Blewitt had been made a Freeman of the City of London in recognition of Dunston-based DMB 's skills in tackling the restoration of the city 's Blackfriars Bridge . |
| 7 | This did not imply an end to the CME 's fungible link with SIMEX , but it did signal the realisation that regulatory complications made it unlikely that the mutual offset system could be extended around the globe . |
| 8 | In the same way , the frequent coinage reforms of the late Roman empire or late Anglo-Saxon England made it unlikely that the previous issues survived for very long after the date of the reform . |
| 9 | However , I am prepared to confirm that in my evidence to the Select Committee I made it clear that the regional electricity companies were obliged to purchase the most economic electricity on the market . |
| 10 | In a few short verses not only did that celebrated pair dispose of our continental neighbours , but they also made it clear that the Irish , the Scots and the Welsh were suspect too . |
| 11 | However , later UNITA reports made it clear that the two men had in fact defected , and accused Portugal of assisting them . |
| 12 | Besides , the caption made it clear that the International Women 's Day included much more of substance : ‘ … music , workshops , speakers and exhibitions from around the world . ’ |
| 13 | The Society believes it is particularly unacceptable for changes of this sort to be put forward through Regulations when the White Paper preceding the Legal Aid Act , and the Lord Chancellor 's comments during the passage of the Act , made it clear that the Regulation-making powers were intended to be used for routine upratings , rather than for radical changes to the scheme . |
| 14 | He says that every brochure made it clear that the best way to order goods , was to fax . |
| 15 | Increasingly open discussion of the subject in the Turkish press made it clear that the Kurdish issue would continue to be the main political problem facing the government . |
| 16 | On the question of increased competence for the European institutions , the Foreign Secretary made it clear that the significant shift sought by the June draft treaty to enlarge Community competence in areas covered by qualified majority voting was unacceptable . |
| 17 | Finance ministers and officials taking part in the meetings made it clear that the whole package of financial aid was conditional on the former Soviet republics pressing ahead to establish market economies and taking prescribed measures for stabilization . |
| 18 | The meeting made it clear that the main reason for changes in relationships between the Council and the colleges was ‘ the need to give greater independence to colleges rather than the pressure of work at the Council ’ . |
| 19 | Yesterday Mr Clarke again made it clear that the 9 per cent offer was final , and continued to attack the TUC unions — particularly the National Union of Public Employees and the unions ' chief negotiator , Mr Roger Poole . |
| 20 | Mr Roger Poole , chief union negotiator , accused Mr Clarke , of sabotaging the talks after the statement made it clear that the 9 per cent 18 month offer would not be improved . |
| 21 | My noble and learned Friend and my right hon. Friend made it clear that the green form scheme would not be withdrawn until a full , free , prompt , and convenient form of professional advice was available to every asylum seeker . |
| 22 | Probably everything in the personality of the showmen and in the nature of business activity itself made it likely that the motion-picture industry would go in search of better audiences but this development was encouraged by a strange mixture of attitudes towards that original working-class audience that had helped create the industry . |
| 23 | Having taken on board the two main objections to its March 1978 proposals , the DES reverted to its original proposal and in order ‘ to avoid multiple problems of interface with existing bodies ’ , it considered it essential that the new Committee ‘ should be based within one of the major existing validating bodies ’ which , however , should not be the CGLI . |
| 24 | He wanted to see a mixed economy of care and he considered it essential that the social services authorities should see themselves as the arrangers and purchasers of care services , not as monopolistic providers . |
| 25 | Although he did not underestimate the dangers of insurgent Communism , and considered it pathetic that the Soviet leaders should have as their strict aim the overtaking of the Capitalist states , he still felt that something might come out of Russia from which all might benefit . |