Example sentences of "it that the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How is it that the majority of people are given such a highly distorted overall picture of the nature and incidence of sexual violence ? |
| 2 | Groan — rumour has it that the stars of art porn slick The Lover ( Tony Leung Jane March ) ‘ were n't faking it ’ in their love scenes ( yeah , yeah ) . |
| 3 | We find Makarenko by the 1930s writing , ‘ How is it that the resistance of materials is studied in all higher technical institutes , while in the pedagogical institutes no study is made of the resistance of personalities to educational measures ? ’ . |
| 4 | They were very alike ; so why was it that the windows of Rose looked darker , somehow , the glass heavy and black , not glinting rich gold , like Brier , in the late sunshine ? |
| 5 | Legend has it that the green of the water comes from the fairies washing their clothes in the lochan ! |
| 6 | Legend has it that the Queen of — ’ |
| 7 | As we have seen , the trade union movement either could not or would not show the forbearance required , in the national interest , of a great and powerful institution ; nor , for that matter that sense of enlightened self-interest which would have told it that the morality of forbearance was its own best policy . |
| 8 | Burton-on-Trent is one of the chief centres of the brewing industry , and legend has it that the origin of its pre-eminence was the discovery by a medieval monk that water pumped from the local sandstone after seeping through deposits of gypsum gave beer an excellent flavour . |
| 9 | Flying over Spirit Bay near there , where the Tasman Sea meets the Pacific Ocean , and where Maori tradition has it that the spirits of the dead depart New Zealand for their Polynesian resting place , was a haunting experience . |
| 10 | In other words , did the religious belief stimulate the precise astronomical observation , or was it that the study of the skies gave rise to beliefs about the gods ? |
| 11 | For , to take it that the property of being red-haired is known reliably but that there is no solid evidence for its owner ( in the same way for example as in ( 78 ) where her must be covered by the caveat without solid evidence : ( 78 ) he tried to imagine her ) seems as near to self-contradictory as makes no difference . |
| 12 | How is it that the demand for an independent Sikh state , once seen as the beginning of a threat to the unity of India , suddenly looks like an idea whose time has gone ? |
| 13 | We take it that the point of theories , and from this the point of research , is to offer adequate accounts of the empirical world as conceived as the domain of the discipline to which the theory belongs . |
| 14 | Well apparently rumour has it that the doctor at the hospital who dealt with these last cases was saying words to the effect that er Jonathan just put Jonathan in a situation and he 'd keep the hospital in business for evermore . |
| 15 | Convention has it that the source of parallel rays of light is behind the observer 's left shoulder at 45° to the x , y and z axes . |
| 16 | In terms of Fig. 10–5 , if is established , how is it that the number of workers recorded as unemployed is measured between points 2 and 4 rather than the real wage falling so that labour market equilibrium is established at Trade union power is an obvious explanation and is explored further in the context of coalitions below . |
| 17 | I heard Mr say I think that it that the view of the H B F was that the county had no ra right to make reductions in migration . |