Example sentences of "it [verb] that [noun] [be] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Thus it seemed that physics was more mature then chemistry , and had already left behind the stage of effervescent and explosive progress in which that science was still so visibly engaged .
2 It acknowledged that education was both a consumption and investment .
3 After St George 's , almost all Unionist candidates ran without making promises to support the coalition ; this did not mean that all of them joined the diehard group when elected , but it showed that coalition was no longer seen to be a winning ticket .
4 So it appears that completion was around that time although the date is not er , is not certain .
5 It seems that androgyny is psychologically and socially valuable for women ( Jones et al .
6 Now , after experiment rather than speculation , it seems that stabilimenta are really early warning landmarks for birds .
7 It seems that education is not even essential to happiness .
8 Looking back from the late 1980s it seems that decentralization was not a clean break , nor was it a temporary aberration , since elements of both continue to exist side by side in the British settlement system .
9 Meggitt contrasts the ‘ ritualised ’ literacy supposedly apparent in Melanesian politico-religious movements with a model of what literacy ‘ really ’ is in a way that obviously owes much to Goody : ‘ It seems that writing was rarely treated as a straightforward technique of secular action , one whose prime values is repeated and surrogate communication of unambiguous meanings in a variety of situations ’ ( 1968 , p. 302 ) .
10 It follows that marking is entirely done on the basis of the police report and is therefore dominated by it .
11 In a way this was not such a radically different view from Mannheim 's because the sociology of knowledge was sociologism in the sense that it held that truth was only ‘ true ‘ for ’ certain groups of men ’ ( Grunwald 1970 : 238 ) .
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