Example sentences of "it [vb -s] that [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It emphasises that in the final analysis it is not what the electors , or judges , or a returning officer may say , but what the House itself says , which determines whether a successful candidate may take a seat . |
| 2 | It says that with a General Election looming , now is the time to take up ‘ unique tax-planning opportunities ’ . |
| 3 | It says that in the fourth quarter of 1991 , there was a threefold increase in the number of stolen cars in the second hand market compared with a year earlier . |
| 4 | It calculates that for every 100 hundred trees cut done only nine are planted , and concludes that in some countries fuelwood supplies will soon be exhausted unless massive replanting is undertaken . |
| 5 | The petition was accompanied by one from the magnates , who also sought the withdrawal of the tax on wool : it appears that for the first time since the Ordinances of 1310–11 the commons and the magnates were joining together to seek concessions and measures of reform from the king . |
| 6 | It appears that in the earlier part of the nineteenth century a change took place in the kind of family responsibilities which are implied by inheritance practices . |
| 7 | It seems that for the vast majority of dog owners , the very presence of canine company simply makes us feel good . |
| 8 | Also , it seems that to a similar extent the nature of the dot task also influences the degree of RFA . |
| 9 | It seems that during the 18th century in the beautiful city of Cambridge , the leading livery stable was owned and operated by one Charles Hobson who had made a small fortune in renting cabs and carriages to the gentry , so much so that he had acquired that lovely house and property known as Anglesey Abbey for his country residence . |
| 10 | It seems that in the first year of life you 're more likely than at any other time in your life to die at the hands of somebody else . |
| 11 | There it seems that from the earliest days of the pioneer settlers the black cat was linked with the devil so strongly that it was , in any context , an evil force . |
| 12 | And so it emerges that on the conditional theory of knowledge it is possible to know that p and to know that p implies q without knowing that q . |
| 13 | It follows that after a moderate number of trials the amount of latent inhibition accruing to S1 when presented as part of the serial compound S1-S2 is likely to be less than that produced by training with S1 alone . |
| 14 | Furthermore , points out O'Connor ( 1973 p 123 ) , because languages have " different numbers of phonemes , and different allophones representing them , it follows that in a foreign language we do not hear the sounds in the same way as a native speaker does … |
| 15 | Since one of the functions of the project was to stimulate library awareness and development among all schools , and since as the project progressed more schools made active attempts to achieve necessary thresholds for inclusion , it follows that in the early years , appropriate schools were sometimes hard to find . |
| 16 | It follows that in the neo-classical model , firms will be willing to supply the full employment level of real income ( Y f ) at each price level — thus , the AS curve is vertical at Y f . |
| 17 | It means that in the last four years , the building cost average has jumped by almost 20 points , while the tender average has stayed virtually the same . |
| 18 | Now whether it means that in the short term they all land on your desk , and you give them just a superficial examination I do n't know . |
| 19 | It claims that in the five years to the end of 1988 Pearl 's new annual premium business rose by an average of 3.7 per cent a year against a UK market average of 13 per cent a year . |
| 20 | In addition , it argues that in the academic arena , a single affair can affect more than two people : ‘ Fellow students and colleagues and the learning and working environment will be affected , especially when conflict of interest and unfairness are involved . ’ |