Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [that] it [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other countries apparently more successful than us , never seem to mind change , the British do for fear that it diminishes their lot in life . |
| 2 | Ukraine for example is already stated in its er declaration of Sovereignty that it regards itself as a non nuclear zone , so they 're not going to want nuclear weapons for themselves , and er , I imagine that the former republics will have to quite a a comprehensive military alliance perhaps on the lines of NATO and that nuclear weapons will be vested in that alliance . |
| 3 | George Eliot clearly admires the one at Cheverel Manor , ‘ which was so bare of furniture that it impressed one with its architectural beauty like a cathedral ’ . |
| 4 | At issue is whether a foreign country can identify and successfully demand the repatriation of antiquities that it admits it did not even know existed until they turned up in a museum 's collection . |
| 5 | He had gingerly opened the Book , which was chained to the octiron pedestal in the middle of the rune-strewn floor not lest someone steal it , but lest it escape ; for it was the Octavo , so full of magic that it had its own vague sentience . |
| 6 | It was a photograph of a portrait by Van Dyck — the portrait of a boy about fifteen — a young Prince Ruprecht von der Pfaltz of Bavaria and he was so like Lionel that it brought one 's heart into one 's mouth . |
| 7 | You see , an island like Hodges is so occupied with copra that it produces nothing else . |
| 8 | It was incredible , so incredible , so lost in time that it did something to me — changed my perspective , my outlook , something strange that even now I barely understand . |
| 9 | On Oct. 25 the two main opposition groups , the DCR and the NSF , expressed their support for a DNSF minority government on condition that it committed itself to " the evolution of Romania towards democracy … and the pursuit of economic reform " . |
| 10 | It is not without significance that it had its source in a campaign which effectively combined Cobdenite principles of free trade with a ‘ bellicose philanthropy ’ worthy of the most self-righteous of Victorian imperialists . |
| 11 | Three year old Francesca Lobban is so sensitive to pain that it makes her heart stop and leaves her unconscious for up to ninety minutes . |
| 12 | It was precisely when the CNET scored its greatest success — at Pleumeur-Bodou -that it lost its quasi-monopoly . |