Example sentences of "it [verb] [that] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the Enquiry Rule Procedures we actually are required to submit a statement that was placed very early on in the process and indeed the work by it to see that a safe and greater . |
| 2 | Instead , in December 1984 it announced that a 30 per cent cut was becoming ‘ an aim of policy ’ . |
| 3 | The High Court in Dublin sparked a huge controversy on Feb. 17 when it ruled that a 14-year-old girl , who became pregnant after allegedly being raped by the father of a friend , could not travel to the United Kingdom for an abortion . |
| 4 | It thinks that a sensible way would be to standardise on windows , icons , menus , and command box style via agreement on specific languages — such as C , C++ — for all interfaces , with reusable source code modules , rather than on specific product-oriented solutions . |
| 5 | It emphasises that a proposed change of use constitutes development if the new use is ‘ substantially ’ different from the old . |
| 6 | It transpired that a large quantity of spent shells from a plane ahead went through the nose and had struck Ed . |
| 7 | More strikingly , it demonstrated that a toroidal discharge in a toroidal magnetic field established its own stable configuration . |
| 8 | It adds that a tender and documents given by LCH to a buying member are deemed to comply with the contract terms unless the buyer notifies LCH to the contrary by 10 am the next day , in default of which he must pay for them . |
| 9 | It estimated that a 60 per cent cut in commercial debt would be required if the region 's economies were to resume traditional growth levels . |
| 10 | Most natural minerals are brittle because they are more or less homogeneous but it happens that a few have cleavage planes of about the right strength . |
| 11 | It assumes that a single factor can be found that correlates closely with demand . |
| 12 | The old Theatre Royal in Dunlop Street soon followed , and it seemed that a new age had been ushered in as the gas light glinted on the crystal chandeliers and the illuminati of Glasgow clustered like moths about a bundle of bunsen-burners . |
| 13 | Then it seemed that a new cycle of muttering was beginning . |
| 14 | When , in August 1920 , the threat of British military intervention against Soviet troops advancing into Poland , triggered a massive upsurge of anti-war sentiment , it seemed that a new wave of revolutionary pacifism might erupt , taking up where the crisis of January 1918 had left off . |
| 15 | Although some years ago it seemed that a new general classification scheme based upon the theory of faceted classification might emerge and be widely adopted , organizational factors have militated against this . |
| 16 | It seemed that a malevolent spirit was out to get me . |
| 17 | It seemed that a major factor in being granted access , was that I was able to convince the deciding parties that the research would be ‘ useful ’ for practitioners . |
| 18 | It seemed that a dark halo enclosed the men 's faces and her head filled with a sound of the sea . |
| 19 | It seemed that a fuller role was required for the M.P . |
| 20 | As I got to the end of the row it seemed that a hundred hands had grabbed me … my body was being assailed with blows from so many directions , whether from kicks or punches I do not know , and with stars in front of my eyes and bells ringing in my ears , I felt another strange sensation . |
| 21 | On the Friday evening , their last night , I came downstairs after a bath and was on my way to the kitchen to get supper when , in glancing out of the windows at the front , it seemed that a dense fog had developed . |
| 22 | Standing in the back of one of the pick-ups as it sped across the hard sand , with the dust spiralling out behind us across the vast plain , it seemed that a whole new world was opening up . |
| 23 | To the layman it seemed that a decreasing service was being provided at increasing expense . |
| 24 | Shouting was necessary , for it happened that a high-speed train was rushing by at just that moment on a main line to the east coast . |
| 25 | Now it happened that a few days earlier Jones had called up Lee R. Phillips , an attorney associated with Brigham Young University , in order to file a patent arising from his muon-fusion work . |
| 26 | It claimed that a large amount of money would be the immediate reward if you were delivered unharmed to the nearest British post . |
| 27 | Finally , it shows that a given term may , as in the case of the verb , engage simultaneously in a number of different metaphoric relations . |
| 28 | No major EC country has ever been refused what it wanted when it declared that a vital national interest was at stake . |
| 29 | It states that a 100-cow herd with an average health standard calls in the veterinary surgeon 140 times a year . |
| 30 | Even if a new underground concourse is built — that is one of the proposals that is being advanced — nowhere in the Bill is it proposed that a single extra train should run on the Victoria , Piccadilly or Northern lines , or on any of the other lines that run through King 's Cross . |