Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] that [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gradually , it became apparent that this lady was definitely part of David 's life . |
| 2 | It became clear that neither country could win a victory that would compel the other to surrender . |
| 3 | This result was particularly striking when junctions were considered individually and it became clear that this relationship was at least partly independent of the amount of time spent at the junction , number of vehicles seen and the judgment of estimated risk made at the same time . |
| 4 | During the summer months of 1986 it became clear that this approach enjoyed strong backing from the United States and Britain . |
| 5 | Later , it became clear that this material , despite its potency , contained only about 1 per cent of pure penicillin and that it was almost entirely composed of material which was not penicillin . |
| 6 | Within a short while it became clear that this policy was damaging the rice crop . |
| 7 | Whilst the algorithm detailed in Appendix D ( flowchart D3 ) was under development , it became clear that this representation was not the best for this particular structure . |
| 8 | But in the years after his victory at Actium ( 31 BC ) it became clear that this form of portrait , bearing associations of foreign kingship , was ill suited to Octavian 's self-proclaimed role as the restorer of the Roman Republic . |
| 9 | There was an awkward pause during which it became clear that this hint was going to be ignored like all previous ones and then the Guider realised that the pause was going to continue . |
| 10 | It became clear that most investment and credits in the urban sector had been used to finance further mechanisation and capitalisation , creating limits to labour absorption of industrial sectors . |
| 11 | Once they were revealed , it seemed extraordinary that either operation should have borne the stamp of the American government ; they seemed to be bad dreams . |
| 12 | As I thought about it it seemed extraordinary that any man should endure such behaviour and still wish to marry the object of his desire . |
| 13 | As bile salts release PYY and PYY has been reported to slow intestinal transit time , it seemed possible that this peptide plays a role in the regulation of ileal motility . |
| 14 | I knew very little about boats , and had hated what little experience of sailing I had had , but it seemed unlikely that any boat would shut down its engine until it was safely round into the bay , or even then . |
| 15 | Since methylation of Dcm seems to proceed through binding of SAM to the active site ( see above ) it seemed plausible that this reaction may be stimulated by the presence of DNA . |
| 16 | It seems impossible that any mother would be able to find her own babe from among such a throng . |
| 17 | It seems strange that this phenomenon , so necessary both for social cohesion and for the development of real harmony between ourselves and our horses , has been given less attention than pecking order : a reflection , perhaps , on the observer more than on the observed . |
| 18 | In an industry expanding in output and where technology increased rather than decreased the demand for adult male labour , it seems probable that this experience was matched on the country 's other coalfields . |
| 19 | It seems possible that this material originates from rare mucosal endocrine cells expressing the gastrin gene . |
| 20 | There is sixteenth-century orthographic evidence , which we shall further discuss in chapter 5 , that suggests some distribution of low vowel realizations for /Ε/; in London English of the period : it seems possible that this pattern of lowering of historic short vowels has been overtaken in recent standard English and Central Scots by a pattern of raising and ( in the latter case ) lengthening . |
| 21 | The final phrase carried a suggestion that they might be willing to fight for the League , but it seems unlikely that this thought had crossed the minds of many of the young gentlemen who voted for it . |
| 22 | The report estimates that most universities need maintenance costing several million pounds , and it seems unlikely that this money will be forthcoming . |
| 23 | Though we did not measure reticulocyte counts in our patients there was no evidence from the blood films of significant reticulocytosis or polychromasia and it seems unlikely that this explanation might have contributed to our results . |
| 24 | In short , it seems inevitable that most PC software will need some kind of re-write to run on the Portfolio , and some of it will never fit at all . |
| 25 | In the light of these points and Benyon 's claims mentioned above , it seems inevitable that any insider analysis of policing seems destined to alarm . |
| 26 | It seems clear that this approach contains elements familiar to both the social workers and the nurses on the team . |
| 27 | As inner cities in Britain continue to decay , it seems likely that this problem will be present , though perhaps in a less acute form , in a number of places . |
| 28 | It seems likely that this entailment is interfering with antagonism in 49 — both events are interpreted as happening to the ‘ global door ’ , of which the door-panel is a part . |
| 29 | Figures published for this colony between 1948 and 1966 were usually less than 10 , and it seems likely that this site and Glynde are used by the same group of birds . |
| 30 | However , it seems likely that this burden can not be lightened without forcing too much of the decision-making task onto the focusing component of a system , with consequences such as those we saw earlier . |