Example sentences of "it [verb] that the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It appears to us that the point is a thoroughly esoteric one because it postulates that the judges had consented to arrangements for the Inns to exercise disciplinary powers over barristers , subject to their supervision , which infringed some fairly elementary rules of natural justice . |
| 2 | It recommended that the honours course for full-time students should be four years in length , and it called on the DES to explore and resource such a departure — which was eventually to prove to be the pattern adopted . |
| 3 | It recommended that the councils monitor the rates of submission of theses by research students in every university , so as to be able to impose sanctions on universities whose rates were unsatisfactory . |
| 4 | Many various-sized painted plaster images are on sale and quite a number with large pieces broken off are being brought back in torn imitation plastic leather bags , only to have it explained that the purchasers probably have not been confessing enough and absolution is only granted by their completing a 13-page questionnaire through which they get a special adhesive that breaks all mends . |
| 5 | It concludes that the causes of the increase in exclusions are difficult to define . |
| 6 | At the recent meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council it mentioned that the stiles on footpath No 12 between Scorton Picnic area and the Trough Road are in need of repair . |
| 7 | Although it emphasises that the opportunities are not guaranteed to find success , market-orientated businesses should find them worth considering . |
| 8 | It transpired that the foundations of the chimney were inadequate , with the result that the entire structure sank some ten inches , taking floors and arches with it ! |
| 9 | The Lord Chief Justice had said then that it would be wrong for it to appear that the proposals had the backing of the judges or that they had had any hand in their preparation ; and that it was essential that the judges remained at arm 's length . |
| 10 | It believed that the revelations about the SADF were " inextricably linked " to the financing of Inkatha . |
| 11 | Nor does it matter that the stereotypes are internally contradictory . |
| 12 | So rosy was the CEGB 's picture of these costs during the 1960s that it assumed that the charges for reprocessing would be covered by the value of the recovered uranium and plutonium . |
| 13 | It noted that the authorities had failed to investigate the six previous attempts on the life of Francisco " Chico " Mendes , the peasant union leader and ecological campaigner who was finally murdered on Dec. 22 , 1988 , in the Amazonian town of Xapuri [ see p. 36459 ] . |
| 14 | It added that the procedures which have been in force since June 1988 for the screening of Vietnamese arrivals should be suspended forthwith . |
| 15 | It says that the discharges from the plant , which is run by British Nuclear Fuels ( BNFL ) , are carried upstream to Preston on the incoming tide and deposited in mudflats used by children to play . |
| 16 | In its extreme form , as enunciated by Brandon Carter , a cosmologist now at the Paris Observatory , it says that the conditions we observe in the universe must include the various electrical and gravitational constants that hold all planetary matter together and thus give rise to intelligent terrestrial life . |
| 17 | The advantages of the private law model are as follows : ( 1 ) It assumes that the rights investors would have had in the absence of statutory intervention should be preserved unless clearly taken away . |
| 18 | It assumes that the interests of workers are national , rather than class interests , which may not always be best for the workers , as a class . |
| 19 | It assumes that the ions are point charges . |
| 20 | It assumes that the experts and knowledge engineers are consultants to the software company and not its employees ( this will be a common arrangement in practice ) . |
| 21 | Further it assumes that the differences between the forms and functioning of the family in ‘ industrial ’ and ‘ pre-industrial ’ societies are greater than any differences that might exist within these two categories such as , in the former , between capitalist and socialist societies . |
| 22 | It assumes that the countries ' markets are analogous . |
| 23 | It assumes that the scores have been derived from random samples . |
| 24 | It assumes that the wavefunctions unc and unc were obtained by solving the Schrödinger equation with slits I and 2 respectively open . |
| 25 | However , the more I thought about it , the more it seemed that the approximations really ought to hold . |
| 26 | It seemed that the circumstances of the 1960s favoured , for the more radical and involved academic , a relativistic conception of crime and a more positive , voluntaristic conception of the criminal or deviant . |
| 27 | But it seemed that the Parents ' Association thought fifty pounds a week for merely one phase of the competition excessive . |
| 28 | It seemed that the police , in Leipzig at least , had lost their enthusiasm for beating up citizens pressing for change . |
| 29 | Looking back , it seemed that the villagers had crammed a whole year 's work into that summer . |
| 30 | But as she thought of her Moondream mask , so it seemed that the elms were creeping in to crush no one but her . |