Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] that the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Left was often unrealistic to the point of silliness ; it failed to appreciate that the USSR was a power with interests of its own which it would pursue , regardless of the feelings of Soviet supporters in Britain . |
| 2 | But it failed to recognize that the challenge of running an individual company was very different to that posed by a large public organization with a multiplicity of purposes whose owners were n't shareholders but taxpayers who felt entitled to demand access to those things the nation already owned . |
| 3 | Neither the state nor its government is a person ; they are collections of people , and if none of these separate people has acted in any way inconsistently with his or her own principles , what sense can it make to say that the state they represent has done this ? |
| 4 | What sense does it make to say that the corporation is morally responsible to compensate victims from the corporate treasury , with the consequence that its shareholders must bear the loss ? |
| 5 | When it became known that the Government had said it could not afford to honour Nelson 's wishes and help her out , the tradesmen to whom she still owed money closed in . |
| 6 | ( The ‘ new evidence ’ was greeted with derision in some quarters when it became known that the L'Express story had originated over lunch with a senior official from the American Embassy in Paris . |
| 7 | A buy-back may be used to mop-up any " loose " shareholdings , return surplus cash to shareholders or to increase the marketability of the target 's shares as a consequence of it becoming known that the company itself is a potential purchaser . |
| 8 | First , it has said that the benefits to the consumer are far from obvious . |
| 9 | Canon has yet to confirm details on price ( it should be around £2,000 ) and availability , but it has announced that the machine will only be sold through high street retailers and computer superstores . |
| 10 | Whilst investigations were being carried out , it has emerged that the premises had not been inspected by an E H O for over five years . |
| 11 | It has emerged that the council had been compelled to discuss the future of Kent Opera at its two-day meeting at Leeds Castle in November because the company had explained that it was on the verge of closure and insolvency . |
| 12 | In the last few years , however , it has emerged that the laws of science may hold even at the beginning of the universe . |
| 13 | So far , it has emerged that the cost of repairing damaged roads will alone hit the £1m mark . |
| 14 | Recently it has emerged that the search party conducted on that final weekend was a rather showy finale , put on for our benefit . |
| 15 | Now it has emerged that the bomb which devastated Portadown on Saturday severely damaged the town hall , venue for the province 's One Act Drama Finals this Saturday . |
| 16 | Now it has emerged that the Scots have taken over one of Merseyside 's finest seagoing treasures . |
| 17 | Since its foundation it has emphasised that the profit potential in exporting will be enhanced if export management is in trained hands . |
| 18 | The Royal Family has thus judiciously assented to this and so has participated in the creation of its own image ; in the process , it has ensured that the monarchy , as an institution and as a symbol , retains a cultural past , present , and ( crucially ) future . |
| 19 | With this objective in mind it has proposed that the system of interest subsidies , which the government introduced in 1984 , be either abolished or privatised . |
| 20 | Of necessity it has meant that the development of the Institution 's syllabuses tends to reflect what is , rather than what will be . |
| 21 | ‘ It has meant that the Independent on Sunday has been able to devote more review space to children 's books , and as a consequence many other newspapers are paying greater attention to children 's books . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ And it has proved that the man on the street is not suffering compassion fatigue . |
| 23 | Do not give your camera to a passing stranger and ask him to take a picture of you , so many times it has happened that the stranger has then run off with it . |
| 24 | Indeed , where it has found that the statement of reasons fails to fulfil the requirements of Article 190 , the Court has in a number of cases annulled the measure in question . |
| 25 | As the death of the Smiths was mourned , it came to pass that The Wedding Present rightfully took over their mantle . |
| 26 | Quite suddenly it seemed fitting that the suit of her husband should garb a man who had slaughtered his brides : there was in that , somewhere , a gleam of relevance . |
| 27 | But it is hard to re-create the atmosphere of fanaticism and fear in which it seemed unsurprising that the gramophone records of Paul Robeson were expunged from the catalogues and the novels of Theodore Dreiser and the detective stories of Dashiell Hammett were purged from public libraries . |
| 28 | On the contrary , progress was essential to their optimistic vision of history because it seemed to guarantee that the world was moving in a purposeful direction towards a morally significant goal . |
| 29 | The prospects for an acceptable permanent solution were discussed at a District Council meeting recently and it seemed agreed that the travellers should have a permanent site and that the situation is urgent as tension is growing . |
| 30 | It was the Second Law of Thermodynamics which gave Victorian intellectuals a certain frisson because it seemed to imply that the world was running down . |