Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adj] that [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One critic thought it ironic that this building ‘ of which the aim was so obviously beauty , should have achieved so startling an ugliness ’ , but after more than a century Swanage would hardly seem the same place without it . |
| 2 | Israel made it clear that such development would be primarily in social and welfare spheres , and would not include any kind of economic development which ran contrary to its interests . |
| 3 | His expression made it clear that any man or boy unlucky enough not to find another situation need not expect any sympathy : his place would have been filled . |
| 4 | Brezhnev himself , addressing the Polish party congress in November 1968 , made it clear that any threat to the socialist order in a given country would be considered ‘ not only a problem of the people of the country in question , but a general problem and concern of all the socialist countries ’ . |
| 5 | We will be able shortly to debate those matters more fully in the House , but we have on many occasions made it clear that this Parliament will decide on the single currency issue at some date well into the future if and when it should arise . |
| 6 | Criticisms within and without Parliament made it clear that this audit model of control was beginning to falter in the post-war period . |
| 7 | There was some role dissonance in the expectations of each side in this marriage , which made it likely that some kind of counselling help would be required at intervals . |