Example sentences of "it [that] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Myth has it that the accumulation was financed by frugal Japanese workers . |
| 3 | Tradition has it that the infliction was brought to the village in a parcel of clothing sent to a local family , the Beevers , one of whose members had died from the plague in London . |
| 4 | In addition , he saw to it that the players had decent changing-rooms , and ‘ expert and scientific training methods ’ to ‘ preserve and lengthen their careers ’ ( Examiner ) . |
| 5 | Legend has it that the lake was formed by the tears of a love torn nymph , and at the end of a luminous day , when the sun turns everything to delicate hues , even the sceptical are ready to admit they have seen the Trasimeno nymph — adding to the water level with a few tears more . |
| 6 | Why is it that the Americans seem better able to cope with the idea of a flexible retirement age ? |
| 7 | I think of him as an artist who writes history , and I take it that the history he writes includes the history he has principally suffered — that of Poland . |
| 8 | How is it that the experience will ever end ? |
| 9 | The MRC contained radical SR members but was dominated by Bolsheviks and it was through it that the October uprising was planned . |
| 10 | And every night , before Swan arrived , he saw to it that the curtains were drawn back and the window was open wide so that the great white bird could come gliding right into the room and land on the floor beside his bed . |
| 11 | The so it that the insurance is that for the erm is it er is is the insurance for the in ca in case of theft is that is that is that the insurance you 're talking about ? |
| 12 | is it , is it that the insurance |
| 13 | But why is it that the predicate qualifier construction can carry both meanings while the clausal construction fits only the " unacquainted " version ? |
| 14 | How is it that the United States ' ( and British ) military machine — more American troops and weapons than in Europe at the height of the cold war — is pounding away , day after day , at a low-tech Third World enemy ? |
| 15 | See to it that the resolve does not expire with my departure . ’ |
| 16 | Why is it that the Government promised higher standards of education in 1979 , 1983 and 1987 but the results of 13 years in office have been lower standards of education ? |
| 17 | Why is it that the Government do not want to debate what is happening in Renfrewshire ? |
| 18 | Finally , if the Prime Minister says , as he rightly does , that one of the centrepieces of reshaping the United Nations so that it can cope with the new challenges to world peace is to strengthen the United Nations ' peacekeeping capacity , why is it that the Government are , I am told , $8 million in arrears with their dues towards United Nations ' peacekeeping ? |
| 19 | I have no doubt about it that the government are urging us at this moment , er I I am concerned about that , they are urging us by the er |
| 20 | Or was it that the kitchen reminded Dalgliesh of that rectory kitchen where the lonely only child had found warmth and undemanding , uncensorious companionship , been given hot dripping toast and small forbidden treats ? |
| 21 | Indeed it is probably true to say , as a rough generalization , that the larger the concern , and the larger the number of people involved or affected , the less likely is it that the concern or interest will be represented accurately , or at all , within an interest-group system . |
| 22 | Now you will get up and make yourself presentable — I 'll see to it that the wardrobe shall provide you with clothes that will fit tolerably — and you will come to supper at my table and take your place among your peers , and behave yourself like a man and a Talvace , instead of a sick and thwarted girl . ’ |
| 23 | ( Quinton , 1973 , pp. 46–53 ) More precisely , with respect to the spatiality , since we wish to exclude points , lines , and two-dimensional surfaces , we shall take it that the physical occupies a continuous three-dimensional region of space-that it is voluminous or geometrically solid . |
| 24 | How is it that the majority of people are given such a highly distorted overall picture of the nature and incidence of sexual violence ? |
| 25 | And I think it 's close enough to looking like it that the public may believe it , and I hope the public wo n't believe it , but certainly I 'm not prepared to allow them to think it of me , and therefore I will vote against the motion . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | and so divided it that the remainder went to the husband to take up the one thousand one hundred and sixty five . |
| 28 | It is as explicit as words can make it that the defendants are to hold ‘ upon a weekly tenancy at a weekly rental , and that the tenancy is to be determined by either of the parties on giving a week 's notice to the other . ’ |
| 29 | Are we to take it that the company headquarters , not the battalion headquarters , will be in Glasgow ? |
| 30 | Optimistic leaks had it that the negotiators were making good progress on a statement of ‘ principles ’ . |