Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [that] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will be recalled that the proceedings had been adjourned from June to August , and about that time of year it appears that the first appellant was offered employment in Italy . |
| 2 | It appears that the second Summer of Love may have spawned another monster . |
| 3 | It appears that the next stage is to look for suitable sites and I am told that you will be able to provide us with a large scale map of the area for this purpose . |
| 4 | At times in Rangoon it seems that the second economy is all pervasive , and gaps in conversation are filled by discreet requests to change money . |
| 5 | It seems that the Third Law of Aerodynamics is especially at work in this case . |
| 6 | To take a particular instance , we have seen that the form of question with how ? is associated with predicate qualifiers but not with clausal adjectives , and also that the verb believe will only be compatible with the clausal adjective ; it follows that the second part of the exchange in ( 70 ) should be odd or ungrammatical , which is indeed so : ( 70 ) LECTURER : The Venetians believed their proposals generous … ( interrupted by sound of electric drill next door ) MEMBER OF AUDIENCE : * How did the Venetians believe the proposals ? |
| 7 | It follows that the next statement , which provides a particular instance of the general category ( the acid … such as linseed oil ) , must be an illustration , so a soap is a particular manifestation of a salt , and saponification a particular example of the general process of acid + alkali reaction . |