Example sentences of "it [verb] to [pron] that " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | ‘ The means of accomplishing these points did not immediately present themselves : but early in 1765 it occurred to me that , if a communication were opened between a cylinder containing steam and another vessel which was exhausted of air and other fluids , would immediately rush into the empty vessel , and continue to do so until it had established an equilibrium : and if that vessel were kept cool by an injection , or otherwise , more steam would continue to enter until the whole was condensed ’ . |
2 | On our last night in Vorarlberg , watching nine-month-old Elisabeth crawling round the dining room and finding a welcome at every table , it occurred to me that , right from babyhood , children instinctively know whether they 're welcome . |
3 | It occurred to me that , only a generation before mine , automobiles had been fuelled by gasoline . |
4 | It occurred to him that being on foot was probably an advantage ; a car drawing up on the gravel would be heard from the house . |
5 | Dougal was halfway back to the car park before it occurred to him that flight was not necessarily the wisest course of action . |
6 | I see a man up on the hill , but when as the minutes pass he does not move it occurs to me that what I am looking at must be a stone . |
7 | It occurs to me that ‘ mail order coffin supply ’ might be a suitable avenue to explore . ’ |
8 | ‘ It occurs to me that , before returning the animals to the land again , a trace could be put inside each animal . |
9 | It came to her that being bewitched was like drowning , dark and easy . |
10 | It seemed to him that he at last had a friend . |
11 | It seemed to him that Strawberry might as well have said that his tail was an oak tree . |
12 | As a guiding principle , it seemed to me that future business information systems must not only be able to cope with all the many individual sources of business information , but also , such systems should be able to rank those sources in importance using various appropriate criteria . |
13 | At this time ( the late 1970s ) , I was teaching courses in the sociology of deviance to degree and social work students , and it seemed to me that certain key ideas and insights from this work could usefully be applied to the study of child abuse . |
14 | But it seemed to me that , had they loved one another well , they would have been able to support one another in their tragedy . |
15 | Indeed it seemed to me that what they were involved in was some sort of violence , and I felt frightened . |
16 | In those days , it seemed to me that released hostages had come out of deepest , darkest Africa . |
17 | Even if we discount the fact that Rothmans was the British hope in the last Whitbread Round the World Race , it seemed to me that Yachting World took the opportunity to mention tobacco companies wherever possible . |
18 | It seemed to me that , in this way and with some fresh views to submit , and possessed with a totally new interest in the Orient , I might contribute something , however modest , to the Italian ‘ problem ’ . |
19 | My brother had enlisted in the Grenadier Guards , and was at Camberley , but my mother and sister were still in Merstham ; and it seemed to me that , in the event of a German landing , for which Churchill had alerted the public , a place as safe as any would be my Wiltshire village of Seend , where there was a delightful little Guest House , kept by a Mrs Earle . |
20 | Now it seemed to me that one thousand six hundred was initially as a result of survey work or shall we say investigation into the housing waiting list carried out by the York housing department , and I have to say that I have a certain respect for the York housing department , and they have a certain reasonable and good reputation within the region as a housing department , and so there seems to me that there is a gr a there is a potential to underestimate er the the affordable requirement that 's been put to you , another point erm I 'd just like perhaps to seek a little clarification from Mr Curtis , was was unfortunately I was looking something else up or my attention was diverted when he gave some figures for Ryedale and Selby , I think he said , and I 'll happily stand corrected on this , that if you take away the York requirement figure from his ten thousand four hundred for Greater York , then the remainder he would apportion to Selby and Ryedale , so that Selby got four thousand two hundred , sorry , so that Ryedale got four thousand two hundred and Selby got one thousand seven hundred , erm that does n't add up to ten thousand four hundred and I I I in total , and I I wondered where the rest was coming from , if I the point correctly . |
21 | It seemed to me that various things he did could have gone into other directions , but some kind of self-protective mechanism of his just pulled him back and he did what he knew . ’ |
22 | As a non-philosopher I always used to find that slightly depressing statement that of Eyre 's about beauty , and it seemed to me that one could immediately follow that by saying just because there 's a word for it maybe you have it because you like it and you want to use it and is n't that self-validating in a sense . |
23 | As a non-philosopher I always used to find that a slightly depressing statement , that of Ayer 's about beauty , and it seemed to me that one could perhaps immediately follow that by saying ‘ Just because there 's a word for it maybe , you have it because you like it and you want to use it and is n't that self- validating in a sense ? ’ |
24 | Now it seemed to us that freedom from disease was more likely related to the weak growth of the trees in the forest . |
25 | Close friendships with girls a few years older or younger than oneself were actively discouraged , and it seemed to us that to be seen in earnest conversation with a girl who belonged neither to one 's own year or one 's own house was tantamount to admitting that one was engaged in a lesbian liaison . |
26 | It seemed to us that April that we were seeing one of the results of total permissiveness in a rather comely young man and woman , ill-educated , but neither of them stupid , on trial at Chester Assizes for multiple murder . |
27 | Only then did it occur to me that , of course , my witticism would not be easily appreciated by someone who was not aware that it was gypsies who had passed by . |
28 | After you 'd been erm in daily discussions w with the management , when did it occur to you that things w just not gon na happen ? |
29 | Never once had it occurred to her that being a waitress might be hard . |
30 | The Act provides that where ‘ a constable has reasonable grounds for suspecting that any offence which is not an arrestable offence has been committed or attempted , or is being committed or attempted , he may arrest the relevant person if it appears to him that service of a summons is impracticable or inappropriate because any of the general arrest conditions is satisfied ’ . |