Example sentences of "it [vb past] that [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It recommended that more grammar school places be provided , and that financial provision be improved for pupils who remained at school after the minimum leaving age . |
| 2 | It argued that more teachers should be encouraged into primary schools ( especially men , graduates and those who had specialised in maths or science ) , and a new group of staff called ‘ teachers ’ aides ' should be recruited with a similar status to nursery assistants [ never widely implemented ] . |
| 3 | It found that little use is made of arbitration procedures , although there 's no evidence that consumers are so satisfied that they have no disputes needing to be judged independently . |
| 4 | Secondly , when the Department asked about the balance and breadth of the curriculum it found that few authorities encouraged schools to discuss the issues and it was mainly through routine visits of advisers that concern for balance and breadth was promoted . |
| 5 | It found that most adults come to faith in God through the help of a friend , a relative or a minister . |
| 6 | It transpired that each woman had packed up her own cake to bring to the fête . |
| 7 | With limited exceptions , it proposed that all functions of local government be undertaken by a single authority in each area . |
| 8 | In its brief analysis of the impact of the Channel Tunnel it estimated that some £5m passengers ( or 50,000 air passenger movements ) would be diverted to the tunnel in 1995 rising to 6m ( 65,000 movements ) in 2000 . |
| 9 | It noted that most headteachers feel that IT has as yet made little impact on formal education . |
| 10 | However , it seemed that each sex could have learnt something from the other on this occasion ; by the end of the day , the beautifully laid-out nursery , ready to provide the young arrivals with constructive play activities , was reduced to utter chaos from the tidal force of juvenile anarchy . |
| 11 | It seemed that each member of the group had a question to ask concerning his or her own life , and the whole thing turned out to be a kind of Agony Aunt column — you took along your problem and were advised what you should do , and you did it . |
| 12 | It seemed that most villagers had turned out to welcome their hero as more than 100 cars filled the field adjacent to Gaselee 's Saxon Lodge Stables . |
| 13 | It seemed that these days his friends needed an excuse to blow the family money on their own pleasure ; it had to be in a good cause . |
| 14 | It seemed that any movement of hers would be a snub . |
| 15 | To me , it seemed that those teachers were more likely to be experts in their own system than I would be . |
| 16 | It seemed that both parts of his duchy were now in a state of unrest . |
| 17 | Amidst all the changes which took place in Eastern Europe during 1989 , the opening of the borders between East and West Germany on Nov. 9 , 1989 ( see p. 37025 ) was perhaps the most significant event to NATO members in that it confirmed that such changes , in particular the evolving relationship between the two Germanies , demanded an assessment of how NATO should respond and what its future role would be . |
| 18 | It acknowledged that all Noricum 's weapons sales to Argentina , Brazil , Bulgaria , Jordan , Libya , Poland and Thailand , had been means of providing Iran and Iraq with arms and could have been prevented , particularly if Gratz had had the destination certificates examined . |
| 19 | It claimed that some teachers in the primary school had allowed performance in the basic skills of reading , writing and arithmetic to be adversely affected by their inadequate understanding and hence uncritical application of child-centred , or informal , methods . |
| 20 | It claimed that some trees might have been listed as endangered through insufficient data , and decided that if the report were published , it could adversely affect efforts to sell species " mistakenly " included on the list . |
| 21 | It reckoned that such change was likely to be revolutionary . |
| 22 | It stated that any women then in composing rooms could remain there , but that no new recruits were to be taken on before 30 June 1916 . |
| 23 | It showed that most species are patchily dispersed , while many appear to be randomly distributed and a very few are uniformly distributed . |
| 24 | She argued that , if she could show that what was regarded as normal behaviour in the United States in fact varies from one society to another , then it followed that such behaviour could not be the result of people 's biological characteristics but rather of their culture . |
| 25 | Since each person pursued his or her own well-being , it followed that each person would vote in his/her own interest . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It followed that each seller was liable to his buyer for breach of the condition in section 12 . |
| 28 | It followed that any conflict in the industry was solely the result of mindless agitation and that the men were simply the dupes of their unscrupulous leaders . |
| 29 | It followed that some schools were more competitive and selective academically than others : those which had no fee-payers ( in the pre-1932 sense ) were startlingly similar in character and purpose to the type of post-war grammar school of which , very much later , I became a head . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |