Example sentences of "it that [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to Alexei as he considered it that a great deal of effort must be required to sustain such a relationship , and he could not imagine how his father could be bothered with it , or how the women could be content . |
| 2 | We regularly take it that a causal circumstance is linked by way of a causal chain or sequence to its effect . |
| 3 | We do indeed have it that a causal circumstance necessitated its effect . |
| 4 | What do we have in mind in taking it that a causal circumstance makes an effect happen ? |
| 5 | How much more likely is it that a professional boxer , for example , would suffer permanent bodily damage , than a kidney donor ? |
| 6 | How was it that a major piece of canal engineering came to be constructed on one of the least profitable stretches of a minor and dilapidated canal , in the heart of rural England , at a time when the prospects for canals were at their gloomiest ? |
| 7 | Legend has it that a real giant terrorised the locals . |
| 8 | Evolution must surely have seen to it that a good proportion of our thoughts are true of the world , and so in some simple sense the mind must perform computations which record the world and direct our behaviour appropriately . |
| 9 | How was it that a limited company made a contract otherwise than in the course of its business ? |
| 10 | Why is it that a specific person has the indefinable ‘ It ’ and another has not ? |
| 11 | How is it that a large cavern with a high roof may be formed underground ? |
| 12 | If we take it that a Conservative defeat is most probable , we assert the subjunctive conditional . |
| 13 | But rumour has it that a sevens tournament is going to be organised in Moscow in September to decide who takes over the Soviet place : Russia , Ukraine , Georgia , Latvia or Kazakhstan . |
| 14 | Somewhere in the middle of the fifteenth century , legend has it that a little girl was tending sheep here when a young lady came to play with her . |
| 15 | But it needs to be borne in mind , before we embark on the various ways of doing this , that it is by no means a universally accepted need nor is it that every bereaved person with whom we come in contact will need ‘ help ’ . |
| 16 | Why was it that every single time she did one little thing that was the least bit out of line she got caught at it ? |
| 17 | ‘ What is it that the Roman poet Catullus said ? |
| 18 | Whichever of these two ( not very clear ) alternatives we adopt ( see 12. 2 — 3 ) , the point remains that whatever memory does provide is not a separable check on our taking it that the new sensation resembles the old . |
| 19 | Rumour has it that the new product will have two inferfaces — the familiar character-based screen and a GUI lookalike , with button bars and WYSIWYG editing . |
| 20 | As the Temple was desecrated , according to the most probable chronology , about December 1 67 and reconsecrated about December 164 , we must take it that the correct interpretation of Daniel is the latter , amounting to about three years , which is in rough agreement with the " time , times and half a time " of the previous chapter . |
| 21 | " We take it that the crucial time is from six-fifteen when he was last seen alive in his lab , until midnight ? " |
| 22 | Popular idiom has it that the four themes are very imperfectly combined in the family : ‘ children ruin a marriage ’ , ‘ sex and family life simply do n't go together ’ , and so forth . |
| 23 | Orientalising wisdom has it that the rural masses know nothing about politics and are satisfied with the new commodity economy generated by the privatisation of land . |
| 24 | If all those taxes have been abolished since 1979 , why is it that the average family , starting out in 1979 with a debt of 45 per cent . |
| 25 | Legend has it that the once-rounded peaks had their tops lopped off by a supernatural force to make a flat-topped bed and table for St Columba when he visited the island in AD585 . |
| 26 | Is it that the overall proportion of Management to staff is too high so the balance is being put right ? |
| 27 | Why is it that the black sheep of the family is often the most likeable . |
| 28 | I take it that the honourable gentlemen are in fact cheering the government , thank you very much . |
| 29 | Or is it that the working class has shrunk to a level which means it can never put Labour into power ? |
| 30 | In the foyer a gambling room operated , legend having it that the young Alessandro Manzoni was discovered there by Vincenzo Monti and beaten so hard by him that he never gambled again . |