Example sentences of "[be] [adj] that it [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 She had chased it out of the house in February when one of her grandchildren was visiting ; and it is possible that it spent the night in the house during the week of the March sighting , as there was a very strong smell in the dining room the following morning .
2 The scale of these changes , which can be glimpsed through the pertinence of a populist politics of " race " and nation , is such that it calls the vocabulary and analytic frameworks of class analysis into question .
3 It is obvious that it thought the enlightened amateur , like Hope himself , was the ideal judge .
4 But it is proud that it eschewed the now-or-never mentality that drove others to make acquisitions in the run-up to Europe 's single market in financial services .
5 In 1938 I was offered a programme with full rehearsal and that I accepted , though when it came to the time I asked for separate section rehearsals — first strings , then winds — which met with some opposition , particularly as the orchestra was convinced that it knew the music already .
6 This state of human ability was reached centuries ago , but the power of the hierarchy was such that it made the application of reason to religious belief heretical and punishable , and has successfully delayed its application even into this late twentieth century .
7 It was greatly feared , in fact , that the structure of employment was such that it supplied the rising generation with little discipline and even less skill , and that it threatened to produce an endless tide of loafers , unemployables and ne'er-do-wells who had been thrown on to the scrap heap in their late teens or early twenties .
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