Example sentences of "it that a [adj] " 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 | So does , it that a new one |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | How was it that a limited company made a contract otherwise than in the course of its business ? |
| 11 | Why is it that a specific person has the indefinable ‘ It ’ and another has not ? |
| 12 | How is it that a large cavern with a high roof may be formed underground ? |
| 13 | If we take it that a Conservative defeat is most probable , we assert the subjunctive conditional . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Rumour had it that an unhappy love-affair was at the root of her unpleasant nature . |
| 17 | Word has it that an unlikely combination of forces have come together in a bid to establish a new standard for installing Unix software from graphical user interfaces and will be showing their stuff next month 's Uniforum show in San Francisco . |