Example sentences of "[vb past] [that] it [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While accepting wholeheartedly the value of this sort of study — the discipline that goes by the name of philology in English-speaking countries — Saussure argued that it gave only a partial account of linguistic phenomena . |
| 2 | Such were the quantities of alchohol consumed that it seemed only a couple more years before London saw its first designer louts and designer riots . |
| 3 | It so happened that it turned out a good thing that it did n't get posted , but that was just a lucky chance . |
| 4 | Yesterday 's annual results showed that it kept up the good work in 1991 . |
| 5 | It was an unemotional summary ; Rostov thought that it hid well the bitterness which he felt towards Irina 's kin for their concerted opposition to her marriage , for the years of separation which had been achieved by her father 's influence with the Navy Board and , not least , for the extent to which Alexei 's upbringing had been influenced by the rigid infrastructure of the Court . |