Example sentences of "it [vb past] that [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It affirmed that provision by LEAs of education for under-fives was discretionary not compulsory . |
| 2 | By 1871 , Oldham had more cotton-spinning spindles than any country in the world outside the USA and it maintained that position of superiority until 1937 . |
| 3 | The house was insured for £64,000 , although it transpired that insurance for a completed house and contents had been issued , and the house was not in fact covered . |
| 4 | It assumed that initiative for the formulation and introduction of measures of national policy and became increasingly reluctant to be over-ruled by the House . |
| 5 | ‘ It must have been obvious that we were n't going to let it slip it seemed that way to me , ’ said Morrissey . |
| 6 | But although he was beaten for pace quite a few times , it seemed that alot of the time he was out of position . |
| 7 | Initially , it seemed that control of surveyors ' education would pass out of the hands of the membership of the Institution and into those of the academics . |
| 8 | It knew somehow that it belonged there , not here , and when thunder boomed in the sky it heard that thunder in its newly transmogrified body . |
| 9 | It began that division of agricultural England into a high-wage North and a low-wage South which is best known from Sir James Caird 's map drawn when the dichotomy was at its peak in 1850 . |
| 10 | It helped to develop valuable projects ; it utilized market skills in the implementation of schemes ; and it began that process of integrating central-government departments into corporate entities through which regional problems might be better addressed . |
| 11 | More precisely , it meant that discussion about the organization and use of state power turned more on means and less on ends . |
| 12 | It took that length of time for The Times to reach Carewscourt from London , where it was posted every morning . |
| 13 | Before the cinema opened the men on the staff were given cigars to puff , so that when you came into the foyer it had that smell of luxury . |
| 14 | I mean it had that sort of look to it . |
| 15 | It had that quality of making you feel like an old friend who had visited there many times before . |
| 16 | Stephen 's voice had risen , as it had that morning in the garden , and again Kate thought that he was trying not to cry . |