Example sentences of "[noun sg] the [noun sg] that it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition the fact that it had to be paid in cash meant that the farmers had to sell their crop to the grain-dealer and then often enough borrow money from the money lender . |
| 2 | The firm says it is doing work for IBM in other areas but declined to be more specific , although that suggests that IBM may have taken on board the message that it needs outsiders to run some of its key business units . |
| 3 | Both for not being prepared , not giving the opening of this course the importance that it did deserve , and obviously for the embarrassment that er you must have felt having to sit there while I made a total fool of myself . |
| 4 | These men have no industrial history and owe their presence there to men like Will Thorne , Jack Jones , etc. , who in the past gave labour the footing that it has attained … |
| 5 | Failure to clear it can only add to the guilt because it is also robbing a relationship the transparency that it lives on . |
| 6 | Johns was always liked , but it was ironic , and irony never interested me in visual art the way that it did in literature or the theatre . |
| 7 | Anyway , she cited as an example the fact that it warmed her heart to hear the fledgling ringing the hospital every day to find out how you were . " |
| 8 | In displaying the consistency of involvement and leadership in the Conservative party with regard to Europe , is he not finally giving this country the role that it lost with the empire ? |
| 9 | On his view the fact that it ceased to be a probability , and did occur , is something that might not have happened . |