Example sentences of "it [that] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As often we are at the mercy of his laconic whim : why is it that no trust is involved ? |
| 2 | Mungo realized as he said it that no policeman would ever admit to anything being exciting . |
| 3 | Since then , scurrilous rumours have had it that no proceedings were to be published . |
| 4 | Why is it that no movement of spiritual renewal has ever lasted longer than the third generation ? |
| 5 | And , if so , would Suzie be so blinded by it that no appeal to her would prevail ? |
| 6 | In an implicit reminder that 380,000 Soviet troops were still stationed on East German soil , he said : ‘ We firmly declared that we will see to it that no harm comes to the GDR . ’ |
| 7 | Wittgenstein explicitly rejects what Locke and Brentano unquestioningly accept , namely that there is a perfectly proper epistemological question , ‘ How is it that a person can say what he himself believes , expects , hopes , and so on ? ’ to which the answer is that he must have observed in himself a mental operation , process , state , or whatever you like to call it , of believing , expecting , hoping , and so on . |
| 8 | I had the feeling on reading it that a dam had just burst , and that she had a great deal more to say . |
| 9 | She nodded and he went on , ‘ Well , chance would have it that a man called James Morris called Robert this morning . |
| 10 | It is as if each writer had taken the memory of some powerful event ( the terrible shock of being woken by a piercing noise ; discovering the ‘ magical ’ properties of magnets ) and daydreamed in such a concentrated way about it that a group of people , a situation , a story began to emerge . |
| 11 | Probing questions are asked : Why is it that a number of students , broadly successful across most of their subjects , have all done badly in … |
| 12 | The Stewarts had another residence , in Renfrewshire , and it was while they were visiting it that a tragedy occurred . |
| 13 | I mean the I mean , like , I mean , people say it that a personality makes up for like , looks or whatever , and with hi , he 's the only person I 've ever met where it really really does ! |
| 14 | How is it that a method which has failed elsewhere in relevantly similar circumstances suffices to yield knowledge this time ? |
| 15 | Or is it that a book still has some special appeal in this electronic age ? |
| 16 | ‘ I think we can take it that a representative of the Security Service was regarded as , ahh , fundamental . ’ |
| 17 | ( Rumour has it that a diet of Scottish scones and cookies can alleviate some of the effects of lead . |
| 18 | Whatever the reason , you will have to take my word for it that a hill-walk is still an exhilarating day out even when you ca n't see a thing . |
| 19 | What possible sense can there be in a legal rule , for example , which has it that a woman is presumed fertile even though she is past menopause or has undergone a hysterectomy operation ? |
| 20 | Again , this may explain that phenomenon which is central to the relevance of discourse analysis to language teaching : how is it that a student with an advanced proficiency in pronunciation , grammar , and lexis somehow fails to use these language skills to communicate successfully ? |
| 21 | The real problem is that Televisa 's experience in Mexico may have convinced it that a strategy which worked well in a market where the company was protected by the government is one that will succeed in the face of intense competition . |
| 22 | Roxburgh , however , will not have it that a combination of injury and English-based players being unavailable because of league commitments has rendered the match with Germany an irrelevance . |
| 23 | Why is it that a cup of tea goes down so well ? |
| 24 | As I say I 've not had anything like the bad experience of it that a lot of people have had . |
| 25 | If I may say so the key point is n't it that a lot of the transactions you discussed were off market transactions , they were unusual transactions and the Financial Institutions that were carrying out those transactions whether they were acting as banker or acting a as broker , they would have had knowledge that those transactions were not normal market transactions . |
| 26 | if I may say so is a key point is n't it that a lot of the transactions you 've discussed were off-market transactions , they were unusual transactions and the financial institutions that were carrying out those transactions whether they were acting as banker or acting as broker , they would have had knowledge that those transactions were not normal market transactions . |
| 27 | Exasperated with all this pussy-footing , and knowing of Mountbatten 's wishes that what he had said should be known , I saw to it that a transcript of the Suez programme reached my friend Bernard Levin at The Times , and he published the core of it in two long articles . |
| 28 | The lur blowers are far more intriguing because local legend has it that every time a virgin walks past them the sound of the lur echoes round the square . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Why is it that every time you open that pretty little mouth of yours a viper speaks ? ’ he said angrily . |
| 30 | Legend has it that the mandarin was so grateful to Earl Grey for services rendered that he gave him his secret tea recipe , to keep mind , body and spirit together in perfect harmony . |