Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [noun] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Racal proved this conclusively when it announced last spring that it was planning to sell off part of the Vodafone mobile telecoms operation . |
| 2 | It announced this week that it was adding a top rate of 12.5 p.c. to its new Premier Fix account . |
| 3 | ( In fact , Mr Duroselle seems almost to believe that the worst aspect of colonialism was the way it divided European nations that might otherwise have come together . ) |
| 4 | As Europe moves to become a single market , does it make any sense that Britain should be closing coal mines which are producing coal far cheaper than those in west Germany ? |
| 5 | It had been reported that Smith was to send a written offer to Celtic for Aitken , and although Smith would not specify the amount it became common knowledge that it was for around £300,000 . |
| 6 | But his own reasoning was different : there were questions he wanted to ask and things he wanted to consider before it became common knowledge that MacQuillan had received a threat typed on a newsroom machine . |
| 7 | News of his work with the handicapped also leaked out at the centre and it became common knowledge that he was using the OBEX swimming-pool . |
| 8 | It sold spare parts that were never stocked in larger shops . |
| 9 | If these problems can be overcome , it offers two advantages that chained overflow record handling does not . |
| 10 | It made little difference that these needles had been for injections and not for some sinister Chinese purpose . |
| 11 | The theory was a good scientific theory , in the sense described in Chapter 1 : it was simple and it made definite predictions that could be tested by observation . |
| 12 | By the fifteenth century the King of England was Lord of Ireland , though his new territory was separate enough to have its own parliament , whose power was reduced but not eliminated by Poyning 's Law of 1495 , which forbade it to pass any law that had not been approved in advance by the King and his council . |
| 13 | It needs prize money that is internationally competitive and the people most likely to provide that prize money are bookmakers and their customers . |
| 14 | The proposed legislation relies on it to find technical solutions that are cost effective while permitting the development of its technology . ’ |
| 15 | Independence allows it to try new parts that others may not be able to play . |
| 16 | But it has such appeal that the casinos are reporting more feverish betting activity than they 've known in a long time . |
| 17 | But the tendency to project backwards in a single ( standard-based ) dimension can be seen in the work of many scholars , and it has two consequences that are of interest here . |
| 18 | He discovered it has two electrons that could be described as ready and waiting to form chemical bonds . |
| 19 | Erm , like this country Germany has , not only a National Anthem , but it has various songs that are also nationalistic . |
| 20 | Although this second method is the more complicated to administer and requires that we have at least a rough idea of the size of the primary sampling units , it has some advantages that become obvious when we recall that several primaries are generally sampled : |
| 21 | By the time that you have battled against the wind to get there , you may find that it has some hazard that you could not see from a distance , and then there may be no other good field within reach . |
| 22 | Although it was embellished in 1750 by John Browne , Forston Manor was already extremely sophisticated for a house of its size at the time , for it has some details that are ‘ Baroque ’ , a style that often moved rectangles into curves . |
| 23 | But , as Godwin comments , the room he describes is not an example of the direst stage of London poverty , for it contains various objects that could be sold . |
| 24 | Although it contains much information that is very valuable for academic research on a wide variety of topics ( the family , poverty , the elderly , housing conditions and so on ) in the form in which OPCS release it , the data are not easy for university researchers to use . |
| 25 | Firstly , it contains special nutrients that will effectively stimulate skin cell activity and so repair past damage . |
| 26 | An obvious trophy , it afforded irrefutable proof that the victim was male , and obtaining it gave the additional satisfaction of dishonouring the corpse . |
| 27 | However , although such a study might permit some comparison of different schemes , this pragmatic approach would not provide the parameters for comparison ; nor , indeed , would it identify any criteria that classification schemes should meet . |
| 28 | To do this it uses raw materials that are drifting around in the cell , being , very probably , the products of other protein machines . |
| 29 | It rejected any idea that an organisation should ever be created to suit the individual characteristics of people . |
| 30 | Indeed , the Consumers ' Association have a publication entitled Taking your own case to court or tribunal designed to assist the layman wishing to take his own case rather than instruct solicitors ; but it warns potential litigants that to take on a particularly complicated legal action without legal help would be madness . |