Example sentences of "[verb] [that] it [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The climactic series of explosions of 27 August added volumes of fresh material to the already huge eruption column above the volcano , and some estimates suggest that it rose as much as eighty kilometres into the air . |
| 2 | Having half expected that hair to feel crisp , to prickle beneath her palms as it had against her breasts , she was surprised to find that it felt as soft as down . |
| 3 | The Home Office says that it already pays fifty one percent of the cost of policing the royals , but if the county council can adequately demonstrate that it needs more then funds are available . |
| 4 | Des Collins , of the Royal Ontario Museum , doubts that it deserves quite such an honour . |
| 5 | In the 1930s and 1940s research on one large mollusc , the squid , revealed that it had truly giant nerve axons , which could be dissected out individually and were big enough to insert electrodes into . |
| 6 | I ca n't do that it feeds back that 's a shame is n't it . |
| 7 | It could be argued that it came too late to correct the inequity completely , but at least it was a partial correction . |
| 8 | There is some historic evidence to suggest that it included about 800 titles , among which some so important that they have tantalised historians ever since : works by Cicero , Tacitus , the Greek historian Polybius , the playwright Aristophanes etc. , quite possibly in complete versions . |
| 9 | The US and the Anglo-Saxon countries , for example , complain that it spends too much time and makes too little progress on basic standards , which they see as of benefit to developing countries alone . |
| 10 | He waved the paper at her , and , even at a distance , she could see that it said very little . |
| 11 | But I ca n't see that it matters very much . |
| 12 | Ca n't see that it matters how good a driver you are , it 's not always how good you are |
| 13 | Unisys Corp and Honeywell Inc say they have settled the pending lawsuits over the sale of the Sperry Aerospace Group to Honeywell in December 1986 — Honeywell reckoned that it paid too much because Unisys held back material information ; Unisys will make a pre-tax payment to Honeywell of $43.2m over three years toward a $70m total settlement , with the remaining funding coming from insurance and an investment banking firm ; as a result of the settlement , Unisys will report a net extraordinary charge of $26.4m against its first quarter figures for the period to March 31 ; it says the charge will be offset by a larger than expected net gain from implementing the FASB 106 and FASB 109 accounting changes that it already announced it would make . |
| 14 | I , I , I would suggest that it takes about three months to work out what your best arrangement of categories is going to be . |
| 15 | I will further suggest that it seems very likely that the traitor is in his own fiefdom , the Pentagon . ’ |
| 16 | It was an answer that did not mean much to me then and I confess that it means very little to me today : it is not only a rather arid and pompous definition , which seems to drain the idea of God of imaginative life , but it also seems arrogant — even hubristic . |
| 17 | Suppose a botanist working on the taxonomy of the ( hypothetical ) Peruvian bladder-grass family ( Vesicaliaceae ) discovered that it contained only one genus , Vesicalia , and that the genus had but one species , V. peruviensis . |
| 18 | Please also remember that it does not all end this evening . |
| 19 | That is not bad considering that it spends so much of its time pulling a boat around . |
| 20 | But , he said , its new management is going all out to ensure that it becomes more efficient cost-wise , that it focusses its research more effectively , and that it becomes more market-led . |
| 21 | The comprehensive and pervasive nature of planning makes it easy to forget that it has very little to do with private rights and restrictions . |
| 22 | The Divisional Court felt that it followed inexorably that privilege must attach to the photocopies made in those circumstances . |
| 23 | No , we , we 're looking at individual cases still , and , indeed they will be reviewed as ind individual cases in the future , with the Health Authority clearly recognizing that it has n't much of a responsibilities on them . |
| 24 | The UK government 's strategy for reducing carbon emissions has been attacked by environmentalists , who argue that it places too much reliance on voluntary action by industry and the presumed effect of market forces , and that it pays scant attention to the need for research into energy efficiency . |
| 25 | This , at least , is the view of Gair ( 1978 ) , who reports that a Gallup Poll in May 1978 showed that 40 per cent of Americans did not know that the United States imported oil at all , and that hardly any of them knew that it imported about half its crude oil and refined products at that time . |
| 26 | As they drove up to the house Constance thought that it looked very dark and silent . |
| 27 | Far from perceiving social work as too adversarial , they insisted that it remained too bland , welfarist and optimistic in its assumptions and operational strategies with potentially abusive parents . |
| 28 | ( This means that it takes up more hospital space than any other single illness . ) |
| 29 | Unfortunately the orientation of the palazzo means that it gets very little sun to set it off ; this together with the dark paint and stonework , means it looks rather sombre . |
| 30 | He was tall and reasonably good-looking , with a slightly sad , very reserved look which could melt into a charming smile , so intimate that it unbalanced almost any girl he cared to direct it at . |