Example sentences of "[det] [that] it " in BNC.

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1 But we may feel on reading this that it takes two to perform — that performance requires , in however regressive or circular a fashion , the self that so many people believe they have , and that this epistolary Zuckerman exhibits here , in a display of inadvertence which may or may not implicate Philip Roth .
2 It is clear from this that it was social and not technical factors which were responsible for the emergence of factory production .
3 But whereas they concluded from this that it was desirable to devise institutional checks on the will of the majority , Rousseau accepted the principle of majority decisions but tried to envisage conditions under which the majority would truly represent the community as a whole and not simply a collection of group or individual interests .
4 To say : " Educational technology is not about audiovisual materials " is perfectly true , but we can not suppose from this that it does not include them .
5 You should learn from this that it does not matter what side you choose for the base as long as you choose the correct Perpendicular height to go with the base .
6 Wayne was so taken aback by this that it was a moment before he realised something else ; the hand that had touched the box had come away wet .
7 There is so much evidence Of this that it hardly needs restatement here , nor does its corollary that the present tropical belt is atypically narrow .
8 We would certainly agree that it is an unusual adjective , and further that , as Bolinger says , it acts as an intensifier with the definite article , but it seems quite clearly to follow from this that it can not be a sense-qualifier of the sort which Bolinger has in mind .
9 In Technograph Printed Circuits Ltd. v Mills & Rockley ( Electronics ) Ltd. [ 1969 ] , a case involving a patent for a method of making printed circuits , Harman J. said : It was objected that in fact it was not until ten years after the invention was published that it was commercially adopted … and it was argued from this that it was not a case of filling a long felt want .
10 It was because of this that it became so important for a buyer to establish that the seller 's representation amounted to a contractual term so that full damages would then be available .
11 erm I 'm conscious of the fact that I 've been going on for perhaps too long and I may not have said quite enough about Darwin , but let me just finish by saying this that it 's not possible today , I believe , to discuss any important problem in biology without Darwin 's thought being absolutely central to what you 're saying all the time .
12 Or you could go in and say , ‘ Listen , , can I suggest two or three aspects of this that it 's worth covering ?
13 In August the Slovene delegation to the Skupština launched a strong criticism of the new system , which , it maintained ( EP , 24 August 1987 ) , had ‘ irrefutably shown for a year and a half that it is inefficient , and that the centralization of foreign exchange , the administrative allocation of import entitlements , and priority for the servicing of debts have brought disastrous results for exports and for the inflow of foreign exchange ’ .
14 But spiritualism remained beyond the pale , like phrenology and unlike orthodox religion , despite the claims of some that it was really the same as primitive Christianity .
15 It probably requires that treatment continue , even if a request is made by the patient or another that it should cease .
16 One tradition says that the marriage was at Priesthill and another that it was ‘ in a secluded spot near Sorn ’ .
17 The government laid down extensive amendments at both the Committee and Third Reading stages of the Bill , such that one MP considered that there had been a ‘ complete rewriting of the whole Bill ’ and another that it ‘ has become virtually a Government Bill ’
18 ‘ Maybe if you love someone so little that it does n't hurt then it 's not love .
19 God is content with little , she told herself , but sometimes we have so little that it is hardly worth the offering .
20 He had been given so many things to digest , not the least that it was possible Celia might have a father still living .
21 But er it 's not the road that that that it used to be .
22 I think generally we think that that that it would refer to er to all three .
23 The quality of the recipes was such that it was difficult to choose which to publish .
24 Considerable ambiguity arises when the appearances of the incident are such that it is uncertain whether or not it fits one of these types of abnormal situation .
25 But has anything else that has changed in those twenty-five years — or , for that matter , in the years since abolition — been such that it ought to influence the mind of a Member who is unable to convince himself that capital punishment deters ?
26 ‘ There 's a real chance that if the banks really push the price high , public spending becomes such that it would allow Mr John MacGregor , the education secretary , to reopen the whole argument . ’
27 His impact was such that it led to further villainy — as the probably gay hit man in the Big Combo ( 1955 ) , as a rapist and murderer in Ride Lonesome ( 1959 ) , as Lee Marvin 's psychotic side-kick in The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance ( 1962 ) as well as more conventional heavies in Gunfight at the OK Corral ( 1956 ) , The Tin Star ( 1957 ) and How the West Was Won ( 1962 ) .
28 The speed of change was such that it had become difficult to keep up with developments of which perhaps ‘ we have not yet seen the end ’ .
29 Plato wrote that the potentially subversive qualities of music were such that it would not be permitted in the perfect state .
30 Should a court be prevented from hearing and acting on evidence that , despite the lapse of a few hours , a defendant 's temperament was such that it is fair to say that he or she was provoked to lose self-control , and that it was not calculated revenge ?
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