Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] that it [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | J. R. R. Tolkien ( 1892–1973 ) , a Catholic by upbringing , wrote in praise of the remembered virtues of the British Tommy in the trenches during the First World War , and the enormous and highly improbable success of The Lord of the Rings ( 1954–5 ) , for all that it began as a cult in the United States rather than at home , struck a chord that was ultimately insular , tribal and boldly British . |
| 2 | For all that it sold for $46,200 ( £30,800 ) ( est. $30–50,000 ) . |
| 3 | The winter wind skeetered viciously along the dirty pavement and the grey air was so thick with cold that it felt like frosted glass against the raw flesh of my face . |
| 4 | Trade with Russia might survive if the Muscovy Company went out of business , but it was not easy to imagine that trade with Hudson Bay ( with all that it did for London furriers and re-exporters ) could continue if the Company lost its trading rights , and the Royal African Company was believed to be necessary for the slave trade until the 1690s , and the East India Company kept its position in trade with India for over a century after that . |
| 5 | Base rate was on Sept. 22 further reduced to 9 per cent ( its lowest level since mid-1988 and the first time since 1981 that it stood below the German Lombard rate ) . |
| 6 | The oil paint lazily moves over the surface of the paintings ; in places its application is to thick that it seems to be rotting and falling away . |