Example sentences of "[art] [noun] that it [vb past] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 The Adour , which is much the wider , is also the clearer , approximately water-coloured , you could say ; the Nive is the rich colour nearly of chocolate , which is appropriate enough given that Bayonne was long famous for the chocolate that it made and in which it traded .
2 But , but , but that would ex at least explain why the outline agrarian law takes the form that it did and what was the thinking behind it .
3 The strange and difficult was becoming second nature in the way that it had when I 'd learned to fly .
4 She squeezed her eyes shut and lowered her head , hiding behind her curtain of auburn curls , battling with the tears , battling with the fact that it mattered because she had made a mistake again .
5 The importance of the decision lies in the fact that it indicated that natural justice applied to all decisions affecting a person 's rights irrespective of the form of the decision-making process or the nature of the body entrusted with the decision .
6 Decision : the aggravating features of the offence were the age of the victim ( 61 ) , the fact that as a taxi driver he was vulnerable and an easy target ; the isolated location in which the offence was committed ; the degree of violence and the fact that it continued after the theft had been completed ; the fact that the victim had been left , so far as the offenders were aware , unconscious , and the fact that two men were involved , and an implement may have been used .
7 Then , in the early part of this century , the quantum theory appeared ; its details need not concern us except for the fact that it implied that all forms of matter and energy came in tiny discrete packages called quanta ( by ‘ discrete ’ is meant that you can not have half a quantum ) .
8 In addition he has stressed the crankish nature of many of its supporters and the fact that it drew that support from only a very small section of the working class — even though they may have formed a significant proportion of the BUF 's small membership of between 5,000 and 40,000 members throughout the 1930s .
9 Lower at the back , the short dress 's absolute simplicity contrasted effectively with the extravagant colour , a deep rich crimson , the silky fabric moulded to every curve that it covered and tapering up to thin straps that revealed the pale olive tone of her smooth , slender shoulders .
10 I think it was a worm that it had but
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