Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [verb] that [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed reasonable to suppose that such benefits could be applied to other districts of the city without necessarily designating housing improvement schemes . |
| 2 | Looking across the " alley to the scars of North Hush , it seemed hard to believe that these deep gouges in the earth were manmade and were not the result of some massive upheaval in the earth 's crust . |
| 3 | ‘ Although it seemed natural to expect that some word match scores should be good enough that they could be considered correct , thereby eliminating attempts to find alternatives to them , in fact all attempts to implement such an intuition seemed to have led to at best indifferent results and usually to positive degradation . |
| 4 | It sounds promising to say that these sentences stand to wonderings and wishes very much as factual statements stand to beliefs . |
| 5 | However , it seems impossible to deny that each of us also has a sense of a self , or a centre of awareness , somehow within and integral to our ongoing experience , and such as to give a kind of unity to it . |
| 6 | Though statistics are lacking , it seems reasonable to conjecture that these conditions foster child abuse and neglect , even infanticide . |
| 7 | Whatever the merits of these criticisms , it seems reasonable to conclude that this model of urban regeneration based on the co-ordination of public-sector organizations by a lead agency is unlikely to be used soon again . |
| 8 | But until this has actually proved to be possible — and Jakobson would have denied that it is — it seems reasonable to accept that both kinds of equivalence constitute a distinguishing feature , if not of all poetic language , at least of a great deal of it . |
| 9 | For these reasons it seems reasonable to suggest that all lifeforms on Earth shared a common origin : there is little likelihood that it sprang up contemporaneously in several different parts of the globe . |
| 10 | Where the writer is deliberately exploiting the resources of the written medium , it seems reasonable to suggest that that manipulation constitutes part of the text . |
| 11 | On balance it seems reasonable to assume that this coffin was supplied by one of the established London cabinet-makers with a small funeral furnishing interest . |
| 12 | It seems prudent to confirm that such patients do have rapid gastric emptying , particularly if remedial surgery is being considered . |
| 13 | In the light of this fact it seems possible to suggest that those authors who subscribe to the former view do so because in later times it would have been only in the rarest of circumstances that one would have held the kadilik after the kazaskerlik . |
| 14 | The lay subsidy rolls of the fourteenth century yield much information on the subject of bynames and surnames for all categories of persons , and in many cases it seems true to say that such names were not necessarily applied to whole families nor ( given that they appear in different forms in successive rolls ) can they be judged to have stabilized . |
| 15 | In general , it seems sensible to suggest that any discretion will be exercised so as to improve regulators ' utility ( along the lines of what would be expected from a managerial utility maximization model like Williamson 's , 1963 ) . |
| 16 | It seems difficult to argue that these are insignificant remnants of a forgotten tradition for a composer who so meticulously marked his scores ; surely these differences must imply either changes of tempo or a relationship with the previous and/or succeeding tempo ? |
| 17 | It seems safest to conclude that this symbiotic relationship is the norm , but that it takes place to varying degrees according to policy , place and circumstance . |
| 18 | The sentence reads , the Council instructs the executive committee , to take whatever steps it considers necessary to ensure that this Council shall employ at least underlined , the minimum legally required number of disabled people . |