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

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1 Nevertheless , a couple of drinks later it transpired that one of them has a boyfriend who gets up at six in the morning to meditate , while the other said her best friend had been snapped out of a severe depression by a weekend of psychodrama .
2 As these books are supposed to be read by adults to children , I do n't think it matters that some of the jokes are probably lost on four year olds .
3 In this context , Greenpeace said it believed that some of the sprays were dangerous , and pointed out that they were banned in several countries .
4 The report said that the opposition made clear their desire for the prime minister to be chosen from the MDR ; it added that each of the opposition parties had claimed three ministerial posts and the ruling party six .
5 I took 2 days off work before my baby was born , and on the third day my life suddenly changed and it seemed that all of my well laid plans would go to waste .
6 It seemed that all of the owners had taken the opportunity of visiting the horses while the train was standing still , and listen though I might I could hear no one else reporting trouble .
7 Then it seemed that all of a sudden Rosie was n't so merry : her laughter was forced , and she did n't wisecrack as you were passing her , until Peggy felt she must seek the reason .
8 The great extension of astronomical observations that began early in the 1960s brought about a revival of interest in the classical theory of general relativity because it seemed that many of the new phenomena that were being discovered , such as quasars , pulsars , and compact X-ray sources , indicated the existence of very strong gravitational fields — fields that could be described only by general relativity .
9 Without always being as explicit as writers like Lippmann , it seemed that most of them were content to redefine democracy in such a way as to eliminate its traditional popular participatory aspirations .
10 It seemed that some of the constellations were less random than they had been .
11 It happened that one of the doctors practised hypnosis , and the sister of the ward concerned approached him and asked him if he could do anything to calm this patient who was disrupting the ward routine and upsetting the nurses .
12 It showed that two-thirds of the top 48 Scottish-based businesses would consider moving south if there were radical changes to the state of the union .
13 Even more importantly it showed that millions of electors could be made to take a stand in favour of the League of Nations , towards which many Conservatives were cynical or even hostile .
14 Three-quarters of these offences each year are ‘ cleared up ’ , and it transpires that most of them are committed by young males aged between 14 and 29 .
15 Secondly , it appears that one of our largest companies has regard for the individual .
16 It appears that many of these young people are both educational achievers and from affluent home backgrounds .
17 However it appears that five of DME 's technology providers including Tivoli Systems Inc , HP , Gradient Technologies Inc , IBM and System Center are modifying their components and making changes on OSF 's behalf so they will fit .
18 He mainly collected Italian and Flemish paintings of the 16 and 17C and it appears that some of the paintings were bought from the Kunstkammer of Emperor Rudolf II .
19 On examination , it appears that some of the first papers were published in specialist journals , none of which appears in the highly-ranked journal set .
20 Section 11 permits the revocation of an authorisation if , inter alia , it appears that any of the criteria specified in Schedule 3 is not or has not been fulfilled by the institution concerned .
21 In contrast , it appears that most of the distinguishing features are the result of differences in the national , rather than in the industry , environments ( Derber , 1976 ) .
22 How does it happen that each of us hears them in his own native language ?
23 It seems that one of Mme Huyghe 's predecessors put them there sometime after the Second World War and then forgot all about them .
24 It seems that one of the great pains of Leapor 's life was the lack of such friendship .
25 It seems that each of these can be broken down into five identifiable stages .
26 It seems that many of the communities trading with Minoan Crete caught something of the flavour of its culture , whether material or spiritual , and developed it in their own way .
27 Of even greater importance is the fact that it seems that many of the Roman estates , the holdings belonging to villas and towns , continued into the post-Roman period and beyond to emerge as the basic administrative units of late Saxon and medieval England .
28 If the notes of elderly patients alleged to have died from asthma are examined it seems that most of them had fixed airways obstruction , with little evidence of having had asthma , and that most died of something else .
29 It seems that thousands of these operations were performed in America from the 1850s onwards , while in England in 1869 Dr Wells reported in The Lancet one hundred cases .
30 It seems that some of these proteins might have a significant part to play in the treatment of nerve injury , neuropathies and tumours of glial cell origin .
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