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

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1 The CEGB disclosed the escalation in nuclear costs as it announced that operating profits are £603 million lower than expected at £355 million .
2 It seemed that record companies were always too interested in other places to look .
3 A few months ago it seemed that oil markets were in for a chill spring .
4 It seemed that time scales were important to him .
5 It senses that division managers are both suspicious of their motives and covering up their suspi-cions .
6 Tangible links are where SBUs have buyers , distribution channels , technology or competitors in common ( Porter has three categories , but it seems that competitor interrelationships are just as much a tangible link as those he specifies under that heading ) .
7 The frequency of such bids has made it seem that stockmarket valuations are arbitrary , that bidders are stealing money from somebody else rather than creating wealth , and that American and British managers spend too much time shuffling assets and too little investing ( that is , building factories ) for the future .
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