Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [verb] that [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trade union legislation introduced in Britain in the past decade has enabled the expression of a variety of worker attitudes to unionization , because it has ensured that workers can not be coerced into a union and it has also increased union democracy . |
| 2 | It has indicated that children in experimental Yoruba medium classes do not appear to suffer either in their knowledge of English or in their performance in a final state examination in English . |
| 3 | It has meant that women 's groups of all kinds , even those outside mainstream feminism , can now quite legitimately organize around women-only issues . |
| 4 | It has happened that individuals who have not been contacted by MAS have become aware that the client 's business is being marketed and have telephoned MAS asking to speak to the manager handling the sale . |
| 5 | It has found that couples are also more likely to get into financial trouble after they have children because of increased outgoings . |
| 6 | For present purposes it suffices to say that futures contracts undertaken for investment purposes ( as opposed to commercial purposes ) are investments subject to the FSA . |
| 7 | For one distinguished American musicologist , the decision of some English scholars and musicians to draw the secular polyphony of Machaut and Dufay into the English a cappella tradition constitutes an ‘ English a cappella heresy ’ , but that phrase may sound rather strangely in a British ear ; it appears to imply that songs by Machaut and Dufay , for example , are best performed within the tradition of the ‘ early-music group , employing instruments reconstructed on the basis of meagre evidence while using musical techniques which draw upon no established tradition of pedagogy and which retain a tinge of 19605 experimentalism and superficial multiculturalism . |
| 8 | It seems to demonstrate that secretaries instead of being secretaries expect to become executives , which was presumably not in the job terms of reference when they applied . |
| 9 | However , it does mean that reformers will have to have consistent answers to the arguments about instability , weak government and power to small or extremist parties . |
| 10 | While that is good news for farmers , who are undoubtedly being given an opportunity to earn more money than the multiples would ever be happy to pass back — it does mean that consumers will have to get used to paying a little more . |
| 11 | This was a Court of Appeal decision not on the substantive issues , and merely established that there was an arguable case , but it does mean that purchasers and investors alike should be cautious about relying on warranties if they have actual knowledge of breach at the time the contract is made . |
| 12 | However , it does mean that misconceptions are common . |
| 13 | It does matter that children do n't leave a drama lesson believing that Cromwell 's army used bazookas and machine guns ! |
| 14 | It does suggest that teachers corporately have a responsibility to assist in keeping alive the research tradition , but that there is also only a minimal obligation on individuals to participate in the research enterprise . |
| 15 | However it does appear that consumers pay the final bill as retail prices are over four times the level of wholesale prices , which is double the equivalent mark-up in the US or Western Europe . |
| 16 | However it does recognise that sections of the community other than those with political authority may bear and use arms , and should accept and receive international guarantees of humane treatment . |
| 17 | Well it does seem that women are most unrepresented , and I for one would recommend positive discrimination . |
| 18 | Firstly , it does seem that consumers are more likely to succeed in an assertion that a clause is unreasonable than a commercial undertaking . |
| 19 | Whilst in general it does seem that relationships with the ‘ outer circle ’ are not particularly important sources of support , one certainly can find predictable — not merely idiosyncratic — exceptions to that rule . |
| 20 | It does seem that photographs of black convicted rapists appear proportionately more often than those of white rapists . |
| 21 | In particular , it fails to guide the choice between amending and discarding theories which are in trouble with the facts , and it fails to acknowledge that facts depend on theory to identify them . |