Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [that] it [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't until the final two weeks of term that it really hit me that I was actually going to have to go . |
| 2 | In truth the KGB spends most of its time and resources , rather like the NSA , scooping up large amounts of trivia that it evidently believes are extremely valuable . |
| 3 | Our body is very resilient and it is only after years and years of mistreatment that it finally says , ‘ I ca n't stand this any more . ‘ |
| 4 | Bearing in mind that it only takes 20 milligrams of this poi-son to kill a dog , and that a cat is equally susceptible , it is clear that here we have a serious threat to an incautious feline . |
| 5 | The CFTC might well have felt that desperate moves were necessary to remind those in authority that it still exists . |
| 6 | ‘ There are always so many firings in radio that it hardly seems a big deal any more . ’ |
| 7 | For Leavis , Cambridge English offers a way forward for the discipline as a whole by virtue of its emancipation from " linguistic grinds " and Anglo-Saxon , but only on condition that it now becomes infused by a " general discipline " addressed to the growth of " intelligence and sensibility " . |