Example sentences of "[verb] it that [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Business mythology has it that computer firms in Japan are no good at software and will never break the dominance of IBM , the world 's biggest computer company . |
2 | So let's keep it that way folks . |
3 | It is not only the environment but also the animals and plants that inhabit it that display rhythms . |
4 | Marketing dogma of old had it that car buyers do n't want to hear about car safety , preferring not to dwell on the possibility of being killed or injured on the road . |
5 | Mr. Ieuan Wyn Jones : If any new hospitals are built in Wales , such as the East Glamorgan hospital , will the funding for those hospitals , in terms of capital costs , be entirely met by the Welsh Office or , as a result of last week 's disclosure in Construction News , are we to take it that Treasury guidelines to introduce private sector money into such building will mean that the commitment from the Welsh Office will be less ? |
6 | For phenomenalists such as Ayer tended to take it that observation statements report the nature of the observer 's sensory states . |