Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of local authorities having the inherent right , or what in England is called the common law right , to conduct their affairs as they wished , it became established that local authorities could only do those things which Parliament had authorised them to do . |
| 2 | Now it has emerged that Soviet tanks are being fitted with two or three layers of the reactive armour , which probably renders the tandem warhead ineffective . |
| 3 | It has decided that individual states can refuse imports of waste from neighbouring countries , but only if they can prove that the trade is dangerous to their health or environment . |
| 4 | It has meant that proposed talks with Forest over his return to the club have been put on hold , and the transfer is not expected to be completed until the weekend . |
| 5 | In the late 1980s it has seemed that social workers and their agencies have been caught in a political crossfire between being criticized on the one hand for allowing some children to suffer unnecessarily , sometimes to the point of death , at the hands of their parent(s) or guardian(s) , and on the other hand of intervening unwarrantably into other families and removing their children inappropriately . |
| 6 | By the time the conferences actually began in December , it had realised that real interests were at stake . |
| 7 | The government kept the army small in the past mostly because it had noticed that autocratic regimes with large armies are vulnerable to military coups . |
| 8 | Yet it does mean that Japanese borrowers now face high real long-term borrowing costs . |
| 9 | This does not mean that the old books can provide us with no concrete evidence from the past , but it does mean that old books must be read with delicacy ; with a sense that if we go blundering into them , assuming that they mean what we mean by words like sky , earth , history or nature we shall get everything wrong . |
| 10 | But it does show that intermediate designs are capable of working . |