Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adv] [verb] that it " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 2 | Something which could interest her without being thought so eccentric or so socially damaging that it would upset her mother . |
| 3 | In the Mediterranean coral was so abundant and so easily harvested that it never became valuable , at least in the home territory . |
| 4 | What evidence is there to show that the system of law and democracy in the European Community is so well established and so widely accepted that it should supersede the means by which we have governed ourselves peacefully through several centuries of war and revolution on the Continent ? |
| 5 | The poster at the end of the tunnel was so large and so perfectly lit that it seemed to O , looking up at it suddenly , that the tunnel did not end in a wall , in fact did not end at all , but led to the green fields of France . |
| 6 | Despite the fact that the Whitney Museum was the first to show the photographs of the notorious late Robert Mapplethorpe , and only recently declared that it was creating a department of photography , the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation announced last month that it was the Guggenheim it would be patronising with gifts in money and kind . |
| 7 | Both assume that local intervention should be deeper and more fundamental than merely ‘ servicing capital ’ , and both also accept that it is necessary to change the structure of declining local economies if regeneration is to come about . |
| 8 | Amiss had a fruitless stab at trying to imagine Joan , Kate or Mary tumbling with Ramsbum and then wisely concluded that it was time to go to bed . |
| 9 | One was still alive , but so badly injured that it hads to be destroyed . |