Example sentences of "it [verb] that [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , it agreed that negotiations with Henry VIII for the marriage of Mary and Edward should begin . |
| 2 | It agrees that companies should be publicly accountable in return for the privilege of limited liability , it says , but that accountability lies in filing the accounts , rather than their audit . |
| 3 | And it revealed that profits jumped from just £700,000 to £3,500,000 in six months . |
| 4 | The Roslavl' Party report for 15 March hinted at the reason for this order when it revealed that peasants were of the view that the volost' authorities were imbued with self-seeking ( shkurnichestvo ) ; Soviet Russia was turning into a ‘ purely bourgeois republic ’ . |
| 5 | Though it does not deny that subjects do have a duty to God to obey their ruler , it insists that rulers are not absolute , and themselves have duties to their subjects . |
| 6 | It postulates that agents will have an incentive to seek out information on the underlying ‘ correct ’ model of the economy which , in combination with adaptive expectations , had accounted for the systematic errors of the past . |
| 7 | It asked that members of the Republican Movement be permitted to take part in a civil rights march to Dungannon from Coalisland … |
| 8 | It recommended that trials of scheduled terrorist offences should be conducted without a jury ; that members of the armed services should be given power to arrest and to detain for up to four hours to establish identity ; that bail should not normally be granted ; that the onus of proof as to the possession of firearms and explosives should in certain circumstances be shifted to the accused ; and that the rules about the admissibility as evidence of confessions and signed statements should be relaxed . |
| 9 | It approved of ‘ progressive ’ , child-centred teaching methods , a broader curriculum and increased parental involvement ; it recommended that schools should become more involved in their communities — suggesting that there should be positive discrimination to help schools in deprived or ‘ educational priority areas ’ ( EPAs ) . |
| 10 | Thus her conclusion that ‘ Once the discretion arises it is for the court to conduct the necessary balancing exercise between what would otherwise be required by the Convention and the interests of the children ’ is wrong in law and fatal to a proper exercise of a discretion under the Convention because it predicates that matters relating to the welfare of children falling outside the ambit of the criteria laid down by the Convention itself are relevant to the exercise of the discretion . |
| 11 | I find it puzzling that books are published which describe meetings that took place several years beforehand . |
| 12 | It argued that outbreaks of fire in Underground stations were seen as inevitable by management , which monitored strictly financial matters , rather than safety . |
| 13 | No longer is it expected that technologists dictate the design of the system to the users . |
| 14 | It found that women often felt fairly unsure of their ability in DIY matters , but once they had breached the confidence barrier many regularly tackled demanding jobs and felt that their results were as good or better than those achieved by the professional . |
| 15 | It found that countries could be divided into three groups : First , those countries ( thirty-two in number ) with adult literacy rates below 40 per cent had per capita income below $300 ; second , those countries ( twenty-seven ) where literacy rates ranged from 30 per cent to 70 per cent and in which no correlation could be established between literacy and income ; third , the rich countries ( twenty-four ) with literacy rates above 70 per cent and per capita incomes of $500 . |
| 16 | However , it found that funds donated by miners in East Germany , Hungary and the Soviet Union were highly likely to have contributed to a trust held on behalf of the NUM by the Miners ' Trade Union International , a forerunner of the Paris-based International Miners ' Organization ( IMO — of which Scargill was president ) , and that the NUM had not received any benefit from this trust , although the IMO had received " substantial advantages " at the NUM 's expense . |
| 17 | It is clear , however , that in this case the contracting company felt extremely nervous when it found that representatives of a safety committee had gone straight from the employer to the ultimate operator in the field . |
| 18 | Among the criticisms levelled at the Nordhaus model is the assumption it contains that voters are systematically ‘ fooled ’ : they do not appear to learn that costly post-election recession follows beneficial pre-election boom . |
| 19 | But reference to liability is valuable in that it emphasises that shareholders qua members may be under obligations to the company as well as having rights against it . |
| 20 | It emphasises that airlines should get together to find ways of combating terrorism . |
| 21 | Weaker than the last , it holds that beliefs given us as ‘ data ’ are never fully justified merely for that reason , but that all such beliefs are already partially justified , quite apart from any further support they may receive from other beliefs . |
| 22 | It holds that groups defined as ‘ nations ’ have the right to , and therefore ought to , form territorial states of the kind that have become standard since the French Revolution . |
| 23 | For some purposes it matters that mice are not cats , while for others what counts is that both are animals . |
| 24 | It matters that girls are getting a less fair deal than boys if , as is the case , fewer of them leave school with qualifications which are useful for employment . |
| 25 | In the remaining three compulsory areas , i.e. science , social studies and creative arts , it proposed that pupils should study at least one subject which falls under these headings . |
| 26 | It was a clear manifestation of the industrial and cultural ethos which the coal companies were fostering : it believed that trades unions should be concerned with industrial issues only , and not wider political goals ; it gave privilege to local autonomy rather than general solidarity ; it favoured compromise with employers ; and it eschewed strike action . |
| 27 | It advised that employees should have a right to paid educational leave , and also that adult education courses should charge fees , but that these should be small . |
| 28 | It stipulated that reductions would be made over five years ( taking 1990 as the base year ) instead of over 10 years backdated to 1986 as proposed by the EC [ see p. 37796 ] . |
| 29 | The environmental group Greenpeace has published a report on the Gulf War in which it warns that funds for clean-up operations are running out , with much work remaining to be done . |
| 30 | It warns that pollutants in the water may be causing insidious neurological damage in children , and infertility in adults . |