Example sentences of "it [verb] that [conj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It found that while high stress levels and depression did not affect mortality risks , socially isolated patients were 49pc more likely to die following recovery from a heart attack than those with social support .
2 It seemed that although sheer determination had kept Julia alive until the wedding , suddenly she could fight no longer .
3 It seemed that as one job concluded another was readily available , even during the turbulent economic years between the World Wars .
4 It seems that when this crisis breaks , drastic policies of rent-pooling and of sale may be necessary to extricate local authorities from their financial difficulties .
5 As saccharin is used by in the manufacture of prawn cocktail and similar sweet/savoury flavours , it meant that if this draft legislation should pass into law , from April 1993 , there would be no more prawn cocktail flavour !
6 It appeared that when this alliance of powerful forces realized that some legalistic gloss over their environmental vandalism was necessary or desirable , not because they wanted it but because the public were increasingly becoming aware of pollution , they actively encouraged the legislature to formulate a bill which created the illusion of controlling corporations .
7 It estimates that if total development assistance were to double in this decade , as it did between 1977 and 1987 , the 4% target for donor countries remains adequate for population assistance .
8 It believes that unless urgent action is taken , on this front , law enforcement agencies will be deprived of a potentially powerful weapon against international crime .
9 It concluded that while actual deterioration remained unproven ( medical witnesses in particular were sceptical about deterioration ) , working-class health and nutrition left much to be desired .
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