Example sentences of "it [verb] [that] [n mass] " in BNC.
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1 | For instance , it revealed that 70% of dads believe breast is best . |
2 | It revealed that 79% of the sample was now aware of the term ‘ Open Systems ’ — a dramatic increase since the launch of the programme . |
3 | It found that people in the most polluted of the six cities were still 26 per cent more likely to die than those in the least polluted city . |
4 | It found that 14% of women had experienced urinary incontinence , 5.7% within the preceding week ; the corresponding figures for men were about half these . |
5 | Law as integrity is also a non-skeptical theory of legal rights : it holds that people have as legal rights whatever rights are sponsored by the principles that provide the best justification of legal practice as a whole Pragmatism , on the contrary , denies that people ever have legal rights ; it takes the bracing view that they are never entitled to what would otherwise be worse for the community just because some legislature said so or a long string of judges decided other people were . |
6 | It worries that people who test positive will not get adequate counselling . |
7 | It says that sales of meat have remained constant during the past 20 years , standing at 64.2 kg a head per year in 1970 , dipping slightly to 63.4 kg in 1980 , only to rise again to 65.4 kg in 1990 . |
8 | The minimalist interpretation is too weak since it assumes that people are never bound by authority regarding issues on which they have firm views . |
9 | It seemed that people were often worse than even Jane thought they could be . |
10 | It seemed that people thought it was about kinky sex ; at best it was taken as the onset of senility . |
11 | To that end , it confirmed that sales of Lotus Development Corp 's Notes software for France 's ISDN network users should start this year . |
12 | It confirmed that £2.9 million had been spent in the Maynard renovations and that one million of the sum had gone astray . |
13 | It claimed that people feel more in control of their lives if they are inching forward on a journey , rather than waiting for something to happen . |
14 | It shows that people who insist ‘ that 's not what it means ’ or ‘ you ca n't say that ’ rest their case not on the facts of language , but on the arrogance of power . |
15 | When I first asked wh how many replies we 'd had er I was quite pleased that we have n't had many because it , it shows that people read it , or may not have read it |
16 | He says that it shows that staff acted properly . |
17 | It shows that 94% of all items issued fell into the first two categories , and required no repair ( although 24% were in a well-used condition and might eventually require some attention ) , while only 6% fell into the last three categories and were in need of repair . |
18 | It reveals that people in Whinney Banks and Hardwick are less likely to co-operate with police than in the county as a whole . |
19 | One problem with the adaptive expectations hypothesis is that it presumes that people do not learn from their past mistakes . |
20 | Although this sovereign was half the weight and half the diameter of the original one , such was the international respect it enjoyed that people could travel through Europe confident that the coins would be welcomed wherever they went . |
21 | Although this sovereign was half the weight and half the diameter of the original one , such was the international respect it enjoyed that people could travel through Europe confident that the coins would be welcomed wherever they went . |
22 | Although this sovereign was half the weight and half the diameter of the original one , such was the international respect it enjoyed that people could travel through Europe confident that the coins would be welcomed wherever they went . |
23 | From Wertheim v. Chicoutimi Pulp Co. ( 1911 P.C. ) it appears that sub-sales are taken into account more readily in the case of a late delivery . |
24 | Here also it appears that sub-sales are taken into account more readily than in the case of non-delivery . |
25 | It appears that people gain ‘ para-social ’ pleasure from imagining that they know the characters featured in long-running series . |
26 | It seems that staff often feel less appreciated than in fact they are by parents , and probably vice versa . |
27 | You 're right — in rock and pop , it seems that people just have their thing . |
28 | It seems that people find it easier to find fault with ideas than to build them up into something better . |
29 | It seems that people take kin , and indeed non-kin , into their households in situations where this is mutually advantageous , but the balance of those advantages fluctuates over time , and varies between different localities in the same historical period . |
30 | Initially as a result of the fear reaction it seems that people avoid the situations which induced their fear or high levels of stress . |