Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] that [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ What does it mean here , where it says that this used to be a ‘ crubeen shop ’ ? ’
2 Where it seemed that this would cause injustice , equity stepped in with the doctrine of " part performance " : if the contract were partly performed , equity would not allow a statute to be used " as an engine of fraud " .
3 Evidence to support this general contention has been found in Warwickshire and Devon , where it appears that new building has been concentrated mainly in the major settlements of the hierarchy .
4 The regulations give some guidance by directing that an application may be refused where it appears that any advantage accruing would only be trivial , where the simple nature of the proceedings would not normally require the assistance of a solicitor , or where funds from another source were available but not pursued .
5 This either indicates the typical ’ lip-service ’ paid to issues of racism , the overriding liberalism , the negation of our abilities to give a contribution , or it show that Black women are not prepared to involve themselves in a reactionary movement which takes no account of our needs .
6 Private Acts of Parliament could be used to overcome opposition ; 472 between 1770 and 1779 , 2000 in all ( Darby 1973b ) , although it seems that more land was enclosed in the seventeenth than in the eighteenth century .
7 Evelyn Goldsmith ( 1984 , p.407 ) comments that ‘ Although it appears that some six year olds can understand conventional devices such as speed lines for depicting movement , the most reliable cue is posture , as when people or animals are shown with their limbs in active positions , .
8 Responding to the absence of clearer guidelines on exchange rates , Bérégovoy told reporters that it indicated that current parities suited all G-7 partners .
9 The importance of the decision lies in the fact that it indicated that natural justice applied to all decisions affecting a person 's rights irrespective of the form of the decision-making process or the nature of the body entrusted with the decision .
10 The major criticism of this approach is that it assumes that all information about the organisation is kept in documents .
11 A more important problem with this treatment of the results is that it assumes that any particular rating means the same for all subjects .
12 The only real problem with this analysis is that it assumes that this is an unwitting decision by the individuals involved .
13 To my great surprise and that of everyone else , I found that it meant that black holes are not completely black .
14 Some genial foreign observers claimed that it illustrated that gloomy predictions about Britain 's demise , like that of Mark Twain , were much exaggerated .
15 Then , in the early part of this century , the quantum theory appeared ; its details need not concern us except for the fact that it implied that all forms of matter and energy came in tiny discrete packages called quanta ( by ‘ discrete ’ is meant that you can not have half a quantum ) .
16 Indeed , the evidence in general is so slight that it implies that any animosities had been held in check by Edward IV and only surfaced fully after his death .
17 Indeed , the evidence in general is so slight that it implies that any animosities had been held in check by Edward IV and only surfaced fully after his death .
18 Of even greater importance is the fact that it seems that many of the Roman estates , the holdings belonging to villas and towns , continued into the post-Roman period and beyond to emerge as the basic administrative units of late Saxon and medieval England .
19 If it is thought that it means that any decision should be taken at the lowest possible level , that unfortunately makes me believe that the concept is not all that it is cracked up to be , and for a number of reasons .
20 An interesting additional finding which is stressed is that it appears that such people are more rather than less likely to exhibit qualities of psychological balance and social responsibility .
21 Despite anecdotal reports of serious bugs in Microsoft Corp 's new MS-DOS 6.0 , PC Week Labs says it has been unable to reproduce in a controlled laboratory environment any of the data-threatening errors specifically attributed to MS-DOS 6.0 or its DoubleSpace component , adding that it believes that many of the reported data-destroying errors can be attributed to the sudden introduction of SMARTDRV , the MS-DOS and Windows cache program , onto previously uncached systems — SMARTDRV caches disk writes , and any sudden power-down can cause unrecoverable file and disk errors — but be that as it may , Microsoft is taking the reports of data loss sufficiently seriously that it has pledged to do whatever it takes to track down and purge any serious flaws , although it has found none , and InfoWorld reported it found several problems , including one in the DoubleSpace data compression — but Microsoft said two of its engineers looked into but could not replicate the problems InfoWorld saw .
22 Language can not symbolically signal its own meaning but has to be contextually connected to yield indexical meaning , so it follows that some mutually agreed ground rules for co-operation have to be assumed .
23 None of the four surveys detected two separate sources from this region , so it seems that all the sources are the same extended object , and that this lies close to 17h03min , -44°20' .
24 It is a building of great age dating back to the end of the 12th century , or the beginning of the 13th , the actual date of its building has been lost , but Fielding gives us a clue in his records by naming the first Chaplain as Michael de Painton , before 1319 , and William de Kucklestane Chaplain of St. Lawrence 1319–44 and also of Dode , so it seems that Upper Hailing shared a Minister these many years ago .
25 One study showed that some such children had high IgE levels for foods that caused behavioural problems , so it seems that this could sometimes be a true allergic symptom .
26 Yet paradoxically in 1956 it was the British government which chose to embark upon a high-risk and impulsive policy once it believed that fundamental national interests were at stake .
27 160 to the end of the second century , and it meant that these defences could not possibly have been erected before AD 160 .
28 The Maud Committee thought half a dozen should be enough and it followed that each committee would be concerned with a wider range of matters than the existing committees .
29 They fought for an hour and it seemed that neither would have the mastery .
30 Despite the market uncertainties and many other problems there were a number who had made great strides and it seemed that many would succeed .
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