Example sentences of "[verb] it [adj] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French authorities did something to safeguard communal property among their Moslem subjects in Algeria , even though Napoleon III ( in the Senatus-Consulte of 1863 ) found it inconceivable that individual property rights in land should not be established formally among the members of Moslem communities ‘ where possible and opportune ’ , a measure which actually had the effect of permitting Europeans for the first time to buy them out . |
| 2 | Mr Reynolds believed it possible that inter-party talks on Northern Ireland could resume again , even before May 's local government elections . |
| 3 | The past six months have made it clear that latent isolationism can be inflamed if it is felt that the allies are shirking . |
| 4 | The 1989 policy review has made it clear that complete renationalization of privatized industries will not be a high priority for a future Labour government , that direct taxation will not be increased for those on average and slightly above average incomes , and that it is ‘ concerned ’ about law and order . |
| 5 | This is what has so often happened in the past ; and although the Chancellor has made it clear that low inflation remains his goal , now that the country is out of the ERM there is not a great deal that he can do to prevent it . |
| 6 | This is what has so often happened in the past ; and though the Chancellor has made it clear that low inflation remains his goal , now that the country is out of the ERM there is not a great deal that he can do to prevent it . |
| 7 | The EC has made it clear that live animal exports and imports are a fundamental tenet of the treaty and that it is not up to any nation unilaterally to seek to restrict that trade . |
| 8 | In July 1991 Israel had lifted the sanctions it had adopted against South Africa in 1987 , but had made it clear that new military contracts would remain formally embargoed . |
| 9 | No matter which way the economy goes , however , the Supreme Court has made it clear that nuclear power can no longer depend on Washington 's paternal hand when its competes with other forms of energy for the public 's blessing . |
| 10 | We have also made it clear that free tests will be available to anybody who wishes to have them in the hon. Gentleman 's local authority area . |
| 11 | This , he reckons , has never been more true than in the Unix software arena and he reckons it likely that just one big company will seize control of the Unix world , and its subsequent dominance of the market will result in software prices going up . |
| 12 | I FIND it sad that certain players feel the necessity to change clubs for the furtherance of their rugby careers . |
| 13 | Indeed , many of my hon. Friends find it frustrating that regional issues are seldom debated in the House . |
| 14 | ‘ I still find it amazing that intelligent-looking people will come up and say they think Look Sharp ! is a good record . |
| 15 | Does not my hon. Friend find it outrageous that Labour-controlled Northumberland county council has refused to accept economies of nearly £1.5 million , as identified by the Conservative and Liberal groups , and has refused to take enough money out of balances to avoid any education cuts , but at the same time it can find thousands of pounds to issue supplements in the Hexham Courant for party political propaganda to promote the leader of the county council , who happens to be a prospective Labour party candidate ? |
| 16 | Modern readers of Middlemarch sometimes find it perplexing that significant social action , even for a woman in a provincial town in 1829 , should be precluded , and that the single exception — the building of cottages — should be so inadequately dramatized within the novel . |
| 17 | I thought it possible that directional sightings could be made from the centre of the tower through the crenellations and was intrigued to find that one of them had disappeared since my previous visit . |
| 18 | ‘ They should make it clear that corporal punishment is outmoded and that children have a right to be brought up in their own religion . |
| 19 | Under the assembly 's system of apportioning positions on committees and on the 26 standing delegations to foreign parliaments , mathematical logic made it inevitable that far-right members would receive a few sensitive posts . |
| 20 | The timing made it inevitable that corporal punishment , nowhere mentioned in the Bill , should dominate the debates , and it did . |
| 21 | In July Kaifu made it clear that Japanese aid to the Soviet Union would not be forthcoming while the dispute remained outstanding . |
| 22 | The judgment on the News International ban made it clear that political censorship , at least , could be fought effectively , and the basis for the defence against censorship was the Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964 . |
| 23 | Than Tun continued to call for a national government but made it clear that armed struggle was , for the present , not envisaged . |
| 24 | The Russian law on citizenship , adopted in November 1991 , extended that privilege not only to the population of the Russian Federation but also to those living in other republics who requested it , and the Russian defence minister , Pavel Grachev , made it clear that fellow nationals would be defended ‘ wherever they live ’ ; Vice-President Rutskoi called more directly for recognition of the Dnestr republic , and the Foreign Ministry intervened when it appeared that the civil rights of Russian speakers in the newly independent Baltic republics were being infringed . |
| 25 | The Eleventh Plenum of the Comintern , early in 1931 , made it clear that social democracy was to be regarded as the main enemy . |
| 26 | The only area health board which provided a written policy statement on health education in schools made it clear that direct pupil contact was not part of its role . |
| 27 | The Native people acknowledged the apology , but made it clear that cultural oppression still prevails in many parts of North America . |
| 28 | Regrettably , a House of Lords decision in the early years of this century made it clear that wrongful dismissal compensation will not cover either : |
| 29 | At the start of my current relationship , I made it clear that sexual exclusivity was important to me . |
| 30 | She also made it clear that Conductive Education is not the only method , and admitted that other methods are used with success . |