Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By these measures it sought to ensure that direct entry and thesis-entry members were at least of an equivalent calibre to student graduates . |
| 2 | There was some criticism of the company when it became known that certain Drexel employees had been paid bonuses totalling $250,000,000 only months before the bankruptcy was filed . |
| 3 | The excitement was intensified when it became known that some time previously a railway clerk named Winter , who kept a black retriever , had shot himself in the porter 's cellar but Durham had claimed that he was unaware of the tragedy when he had encountered the ghost . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Although the present Conservative government would claim to be concerned about unemployment , it has argued that falling unemployment can only be achieved by ( a ) reducing the rate of inflation , since this would raise the real value of a given level of money spending in the economy , and ( b ) stimulating the operation of markets , especially the labour market , so that changes in the relative price of labour can come about more easily and thus ‘ price people into jobs ’ . |
| 7 | It has accepted that progressive aging of the population necessitates a parallel increase in numbers of doctors . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It has warned that recycled packaging can cause bacteria and harmful chemicals , including those used for de-inking , to migrate into the food . |
| 10 | First , it has meant that those genes are favoured that have the property of ‘ cooperating ’ with those other genes that they are likely to meet in circumstances that favour cooperation . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The League Against Cruel Sports set up an undercover operation which it says proves that some hunts make up to twenty thousand pounds a year without paying tax.Huntsmen say the League is resorting to desperation tactics . |
| 14 | Although I am not clear in my own mind what " literary " means in the title The Literary Language of Shakespeare ( for it seems to suggest that non-literary language is not included ) it is apparent that Hussey aims to stress the literary rather than the language in his account of Shakespeare . |
| 15 | The requirement to " be able to show " that a firm believes on reasonable grounds that an advertisement is fair and not misleading might imply no more than that the burden of proof is on the member , but on balance it seems to imply that hard evidence should be maintained to justify a particular advertisement . |
| 16 | It preferred to insist that industrial democracy should be imposed by a means that had to be in principle unsustainable : that is , by the appointment of representatives of trade unions to the boards of directors of industrial enterprises . |
| 17 | It means realising that any imbalance between our physical , emotional , mental and spiritual selves causes a loss of inner harmony and a sense of dis-ease . |
| 18 | Given trust as a first condition , the changes which followed each stage of review , assessment and evaluation came more easily — even if it did mean that some criticisms had first to be voiced and discussed ( JM Dobson conversation , 1990 ) . |
| 19 | It had argued that adequate pension support for the elderly would encourage them to retire and thus increase younger workers ' employment prospects . |
| 20 | By the time the conferences actually began in December , it had realised that real interests were at stake . |
| 21 | When the Scottish Office published the Touche Ross report it had stated that further work on costing might be needed . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Yet it does mean that Japanese borrowers now face high real long-term borrowing costs . |
| 24 | As we shall see in the following chapter , this does not necessarily mean that the interests of farmers and landowners are no longer dominant in rural society , but it does mean that this dominance has increasingly to be carried out by reaching an accommodation with these new conditions . |
| 25 | Yes , it is inhabited again , only this time by an army detachment which monitors the efforts of a missile range in the Hebrides , but it does mean that electric light and other amenities are made available — including a pub called the Puff Inn ! |
| 26 | ‘ But it does mean that some people have to wait as much as three hours . |
| 27 | It is an imbalanced situation at the moment , it does mean that some investigators are doing types of work which |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | But it does show that intermediate designs are capable of working . |
| 30 | ‘ However it does expect that all elements of the system should be identified and a specification provided ’ , says its report . |