Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By these measures it sought to ensure that direct entry and thesis-entry members were at least of an equivalent calibre to student graduates . |
| 2 | There was some criticism of the company when it became known that certain Drexel employees had been paid bonuses totalling $250,000,000 only months before the bankruptcy was filed . |
| 3 | The excitement was intensified when it became known that some time previously a railway clerk named Winter , who kept a black retriever , had shot himself in the porter 's cellar but Durham had claimed that he was unaware of the tragedy when he had encountered the ghost . |
| 4 | Instead of local authorities having the inherent right , or what in England is called the common law right , to conduct their affairs as they wished , it became established that local authorities could only do those things which Parliament had authorised them to do . |
| 5 | But the important decisions … well , it stands to reason that these would be the sole responsibility of the man . |
| 6 | Traditionally , the holes have been spaced at regular intervals along the tube — but Western Electric says it has discovered that this is not the ideal approach . |
| 7 | It has seen that this is an obvious way to make real progress in the regions , using central Government — taxpayers ' — money . |
| 8 | Now it has emerged that Soviet tanks are being fitted with two or three layers of the reactive armour , which probably renders the tandem warhead ineffective . |
| 9 | It has argued that greater than forecast levels of infill demonstrate the soundness of the Structure Plan strategy ; reflect the real nature of the needs of the housing market and thereby m materially contribute to the adequacy of the regional five year land supply . |
| 10 | Although the present Conservative government would claim to be concerned about unemployment , it has argued that falling unemployment can only be achieved by ( a ) reducing the rate of inflation , since this would raise the real value of a given level of money spending in the economy , and ( b ) stimulating the operation of markets , especially the labour market , so that changes in the relative price of labour can come about more easily and thus ‘ price people into jobs ’ . |
| 11 | It has accepted that progressive aging of the population necessitates a parallel increase in numbers of doctors . |
| 12 | It has decided that individual states can refuse imports of waste from neighbouring countries , but only if they can prove that the trade is dangerous to their health or environment . |
| 13 | It has warned that recycled packaging can cause bacteria and harmful chemicals , including those used for de-inking , to migrate into the food . |
| 14 | The sense of betrayal has been deepened by London 's refusal to acknowledge any moral responsibility to provide general refuge ; instead , it has claimed that domestic political considerations demand the exclusion of potentially millions of Chinese immigrants . |
| 15 | It has demanded that such a scheme should be discussed multilaterally and internationally . |
| 16 | First , it has meant that those genes are favoured that have the property of ‘ cooperating ’ with those other genes that they are likely to meet in circumstances that favour cooperation . |
| 17 | It has meant that proposed talks with Forest over his return to the club have been put on hold , and the transfer is not expected to be completed until the weekend . |
| 18 | In the late 1980s it has seemed that social workers and their agencies have been caught in a political crossfire between being criticized on the one hand for allowing some children to suffer unnecessarily , sometimes to the point of death , at the hands of their parent(s) or guardian(s) , and on the other hand of intervening unwarrantably into other families and removing their children inappropriately . |
| 19 | It has found that all of the councils should have the necessary administrative arrangements in place to issue bills no later than the end of April and to begin enforcement action by May or early June . |
| 20 | At the time , I felt it was no bad thing , for it helped intensify that curious brooding quality which is such an important element in so many tropical landscapes , and especially those of Polynesia . |
| 21 | The League Against Cruel Sports set up an undercover operation which it says proves that some hunts make up to twenty thousand pounds a year without paying tax.Huntsmen say the League is resorting to desperation tactics . |
| 22 | It seemed to say that all this inconvenience had ended well and she , Mrs Browning , had after all gained more than she had lost . |
| 23 | Although I am not clear in my own mind what " literary " means in the title The Literary Language of Shakespeare ( for it seems to suggest that non-literary language is not included ) it is apparent that Hussey aims to stress the literary rather than the language in his account of Shakespeare . |
| 24 | The requirement to " be able to show " that a firm believes on reasonable grounds that an advertisement is fair and not misleading might imply no more than that the burden of proof is on the member , but on balance it seems to imply that hard evidence should be maintained to justify a particular advertisement . |
| 25 | It preferred to insist that industrial democracy should be imposed by a means that had to be in principle unsustainable : that is , by the appointment of representatives of trade unions to the boards of directors of industrial enterprises . |
| 26 | It means realising that any imbalance between our physical , emotional , mental and spiritual selves causes a loss of inner harmony and a sense of dis-ease . |
| 27 | Given trust as a first condition , the changes which followed each stage of review , assessment and evaluation came more easily — even if it did mean that some criticisms had first to be voiced and discussed ( JM Dobson conversation , 1990 ) . |
| 28 | It had argued that adequate pension support for the elderly would encourage them to retire and thus increase younger workers ' employment prospects . |
| 29 | By the time the conferences actually began in December , it had realised that real interests were at stake . |
| 30 | When the Scottish Office published the Touche Ross report it had stated that further work on costing might be needed . |