Example sentences of "it [vb past] that [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The US Treasury began to experience a depletion of its gold stock , so in August 1971 it announced that official convertibility of dollars into gold was temporarily suspended . |
| 2 | To start with , though his new car was an excellent and reliable machine , it lacked that complete superiority over its competitors which would have made it — as the Lotus , say , did for Mario Andretti — a necessary world-beater . |
| 3 | It noted that increased activity by Inland Revenue officers ( investigating those who had not paid tax ) had yielded an extra 71.3m of revenue in 1990/91 , which was equivalent to 2p on the basic rate of income tax ( Johnson and Jack 1991 ) . |
| 4 | It seemed that each member of the group had a question to ask concerning his or her own life , and the whole thing turned out to be a kind of Agony Aunt column — you took along your problem and were advised what you should do , and you did it . |
| 5 | It seemed that any movement of hers would be a snub . |
| 6 | It declared that ultimate responsibility for the killings lay with the de Klerk government which provided financial , security and political support to Ciskei and which had failed to restrain Gqozo . |
| 7 | It followed that any conflict in the industry was solely the result of mindless agitation and that the men were simply the dupes of their unscrupulous leaders . |
| 8 | Where no such group existed , it implied that some addition to the organisation was needed ; in other cases , the new requirements indicated a change in the responsibilities of existing functional groups . |
| 9 | From initial investigations , it appeared that some measure of the number of letters in a word , and the word shape , would be quite restrictive for the list of possible candidates ( for Case 1 ) , as discussed below . |
| 10 | He remembers hearing it said that each man in one gang at least vowed to kill or disable the keepers if they attempted to thwart their attacks on the game . |
| 11 | It said that human exposure to the gases were below government limits and there was no evidence that anyone had been harmed by them . |
| 12 | It recognized that any change in the status of the area would require the consent of a majority of the population . |
| 13 | It calculated that present output of 25.26 million bpd would have to be reduced to 23.58 million bpd . |
| 14 | It held that any system of assessment should –relate to expected routes of development' ( DES 1988a : para. 91 ) . |