Example sentences of "it [verb] [pers pn] that the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It amazes me that the fine for moving a seat reservation card is actually more that the one for pulling the communication cord . |
| 2 | IF IT worries you that the national survey on sexual habits is not going to take place , you could take comfort from the thought that it probably wo n't make a vast amount of difference in the long run . |
| 3 | I do n't know how much of it he read , but the entry for May 20th must have galled him because it told him that the potential wage-earner had spent much of the day in playing cricket . |
| 4 | First , it tells us that the basic currency of the industry is not bits and bytes and the complex trappings of electronic technology . |
| 5 | But , he said : ‘ When I see how well the Neighbourhood House is being used it annoys me that the obvious move to expand the service is thwarted by lack of cash . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It pains me that the public hold chemical company executives in no higher esteem than estate agents , lawyers or even sitting members of Parliament ’ . |
| 7 | But more immediately it reminds us that the imperial invaders played the role of the Persians ; that Barbarossa 's efforts systematically to reduce the cities of the north — and less systematically , those of Tuscany and Umbria — led to the formation of the First Lombard League ; and that the long struggle with the Hohenstaufen was one of the preludes to the formation of the civic empires which dominated late medieval Italy . |
| 8 | It reminds us that the National Curriculum is not the whole educational experience of a child . |
| 9 | It strikes me that the transformed cladists have changed little except the words . |
| 10 | It strikes me that the whole phenomenon is in the same position as the ecology movement in the early Eighties , when it was associated with people with beards and woolly jumpers who drank Real Ale . |
| 11 | And now he was passing a second and more dilapidated pillbox and it struck him that the whole headland had the desolate look of an old battlefield , the corpses long since carted away but the air vibrating still with the gunfire of long-lost battles , while the power station loomed over it like a grandiose modern monument to the unknown dead . |
| 12 | Sitting on the bus , still with my cap on my lap to avoid attracting attention , it struck me that the whole world changed within a mile or two as we left the town . |
| 13 | As I contemplated using this or that , it struck me that the common denominator between many of them was not a subject but a colour combination — blue and white — often highlighted by a punch of yellow . |