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 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 . |
| 5 | It said that human exposure to the gases were below government limits and there was no evidence that anyone had been harmed by them . |
| 6 | It calculated that present output of 25.26 million bpd would have to be reduced to 23.58 million bpd . |