Example sentences of "it [verb] [that] this [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Now it happens that this particular part of the beaver 's brain , because of its position in the total wiring diagram , is involved in the beaver 's dam-building behaviour .
2 It added that this foolhardy and wilful disregard was clear evidence of the cynicism within the British establishment , and warned of tragic consequences for the public .
3 It transpires that this particular law was discussed with the heads of the Moscow University Zoological Museum and two provincial museums without the Russian Ministry of Culture knowing anything of it .
4 It appears that this sad reality has finally sunk in .
5 It appears that this bloody bobby had been locked up two or three times .
6 It seems that this latter development may potentially underlie the subsequent promotion of acid resistant lineages ( gastric metaplasia ) because the non-resistant oesophageal stem cells ( or possibly also the stem cells of the submucosal oesophageal glands ) are either damaged or die , whereas others which have the ability to redifferentiate to a mucin secreting phenotype survive .
7 It seems that this dynamic view is closer to what Brooke-Rose has in mind when she describes her use of metaphor in the novels as recontextualization through the fusion of discourses .
8 As will be clear from all that has been said so far , it seems that this short time is barely adequate for the person concerned to have dealt with all the issues involved in adjusting to the death of a loved one .
9 Be it known that this unique building was erected in the reign of our good Queen Victoria and in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and sixty three at Eardisley in the county of Hereford .
10 If the Soviet state machine , the process of production and the producers , are directed by the party-state nomenklatura officials , who recruit by co-option from among the beneficiaries of higher education , and who in various ways benefit from privilege , it follows that this ruling stratum has some of the characteristics of a ruling class , though not that of ownership , except possibly in some collective sense .
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