Example sentences of "it [verb] [pers pn] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It worries us that many farmers appear to be paid for doing nothing . |
| 2 | Should it surprise us that this tale from the East Midlands should be taken into a largely religious anthology produced in the West Midlands ? |
| 3 | ‘ Has n't it struck you that Jumbo Jardine 's loose tongue operates in two ways ? |
| 4 | I would n't have cared to live under the rule of Fagg myself , but I ca n't say it worried me that these people were getting short rations . |
| 5 | It depressed him that some observers thought the debate would be used ‘ as a way of paying off some scores , real or imagined ’ . |
| 6 | It amuses me that eight years ago I had two homes — but I digress again . |
| 7 | Yes well it strikes me that this case involves some very narrow issues really it 's generated an awful lot of paper . |
| 8 | It struck me that this place must be fairly normal as lodging houses go , for on the whole the lodgers did not complain . |
| 9 | ‘ It struck us that these children had n't really had a chance to see what ballet was . ’ |
| 10 | For the sake of this exercise , it matters little that , as a Soviet planner , I fail to narrow the gap between my compressor technology and yours ; nor does it concern me that one rouble of imported Western equipment requires five roubles in investment support : if the six roubles I invest produce fifty roubles of output , how have I injured myself ? |