Example sentences of "it that [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is it that all these poor peasants |
| 2 | He knew that he was being sucked into the Prison of Hostages , for it is to that great and awesome dwelling that is not quite in the world of Men but not quite out of it that all soulless ones must go . |
| 3 | So I mean it it was it was represented to me er and I felt that there was some logic in it that that this company would not be discussing this deal unless it felt it could make money out of it and that money in the end would have to come out of the local people here . |
| 4 | How important is it that those subordinate to them accept it ? |
| 5 | Folklore has it that any economic revival starts in the housing market as homeowners and would-be homeowners decide they can put off moving or buying no longer . |
| 6 | Conventional wisdom has it that any significant expenditure on your home is best undertaken several years prior to retirement . |
| 7 | In tentatively proposing such a theory I take it that any acceptable political or moral theory must be capable of satisfying the following demands . |
| 8 | What was it that these two friends of his felt for women that had never touched him ? |
| 9 | Why is it that some general secretaries of certain unions are pushing us down the path of severing our links ? |
| 10 | Bishop Edward Daly in Derry liberally interpreted the needs of his Roman catholic pupils from the mid-1970s , allowing greater freedom and seeing to it that some alternative religious education was provided . |
| 11 | One version has it that this Byzantine princess caused a collection of manuscripts to be brought to Moscow that was so splendid as to leave sixteenth-century eyewitnesses dumbfounded . |
| 12 | It is true that even then he might still be acting in the course of his employment , but we must take it that this curious piece of metaphysics exempts the employer from vicarious liability for this particular tort . |
| 13 | And why was it that this deep empathy with the hard done by inspired her to give him such a hard time ? |
| 14 | How was it that this strange , seemingly rather lonely man , had been able , in so brief an acquaintance , to get inside her mind , when her husband could n't — or would n't ? |
| 15 | I return again to the point that I made originally — why is it that this vulnerable , waif-like , often frighteningly naive girl who always speaks her mind — but is after all only a pop singer — is taken seriously at all ? |