Example sentences of "it [vb past] that [adj] [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Beveridge Report referred to both of these consequences when it argued that social security benefits should be of subsistence level only , allowing the individual , if he so wished , to make his own provision for higher benefits through voluntary insurance — which should also be positively encouraged by the government through tax allowances . |
| 2 | It reported that Romanian state institutions and factories were under intensified guard , and that the frontiers were closed to tourists . |
| 3 | In its brief analysis of the impact of the Channel Tunnel it estimated that some £5m passengers ( or 50,000 air passenger movements ) would be diverted to the tunnel in 1995 rising to 6m ( 65,000 movements ) in 2000 . |
| 4 | It stated that British university teams , currently working there are ‘ a far cry , mercifully , form the days when English ( and Scottish ) milords sent Greece 's antiquities home by the shipload ’ . |
| 5 | It showed that central government departments , in making and implementing policies , acted largely in isolation from each other and conducted their relationships with local authorities accordingly . |
| 6 | It emerged that large cash payments had been made to four government ministers in return for relinquishing their portfolios . |
| 7 | Central bankers were also concerned in the spring of 1991 that the German government might attempt to stave off the pressure on the mark by raising interest rates , a move which they felt would further depress the prospects for world economic growth ; by April , however , it appeared that global interest rates were at last starting to come down , with particularly strong declines in the United Kingdom , the United States and France . |
| 8 | The work reported on in section 3.3 suggested that there may be economic efficiency ( as well as taxation efficiency ) reasons for the introduction of share options , and in general it suggested that managerial emolument packages should not be in the form of a straight salary but should involve some performance-improving subtleties . |