Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun sg] that it " in BNC.
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| 1 | OFFICIALS of an apparently doomed workingmen 's club have been given fresh hope that it could survive . |
| 2 | Hewlett told Electronic News that it had n't seen any fall-off of interest in the HP9000 Series 1200 machines it buys OEM from Sequoia , but if it did , it could ‘ take over what it needed , whether that 's technology rights or manufacturing rights or whatever . ’ |
| 3 | But this week the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders told New Scientist that it intended to force a reopening of the debate on whether low-octane fuel should become the norm in Britain . |
| 4 | A spokesman for ICI , Britain 's giant chemical conglomerate which is active in many fields of genetic engineering , told New Scientist that it had not been approached . |
| 5 | She said inspectors should advise schools using corporal punishment that it was outmoded . |
| 6 | Lord James said the Government accepted the increased sentences , adding : ‘ There is a rising crime rate and rising public concern that it is necessary to obliterate the knife culture and the vicious circle involved therein of knife-wielding thugs . ’ |
| 7 | She had been a fool to let Muriel choose a place to have lunch and would take good care that it did not happen again . |
| 8 | Schaumberg , Illinois-based Motorola Inc has announced new software that it hopes will form the standard for seamlessly integrating disparate wireless and wired data networks ( CI No 2,158 ) , and seems to have attracted a broad base of support . |
| 9 | It had been reported that Smith was to send a written offer to Celtic for Aitken , and although Smith would not specify the amount it became common knowledge that it was for around £300,000 . |
| 10 | the National government failed to convince informed opinion that it was genuinely concerned about the spread of Fascism . |
| 11 | A colourless gas with a faint tang , it can produce narcosis and even ( after a lengthy exposure at a concentration of 5 per cent or more ) unconsciousness and death , but it is as a greenhouse gas emitted in the course of producing man-made energy that it has become central to our end-of-century concerns . |
| 12 | I wait to see conclusive proof that it is possible in physical and geographical terms to bring the lines from Stratford into the proposed station at King 's Cross without making any changes whatever to the Bill . |
| 13 | Indeed , it had even baulked over the European Payments Union for five months until it gained complete assurance that it would still be able to retain sole control over sterling as an international reserve currency . |
| 14 | For example , there is no conclusive evidence from anywhere that DDT has ever killed anybody , yet we have ample evidence that it has saved millions of lives . |
| 15 | The United States accepted a cosmetic increase in the price of gold following European insistence that it must be seen to devalue . |
| 16 | But the meditators maintain they have scientific proof that it does work and they can bring peace to a troubled world . |
| 17 | If it was murder ( and I have slender evidence that it was ) then , my Lord , let us remember Cicero 's question — ‘ Cui bono ’ . ? |
| 18 | I have certain knowledge that it will lead only to further grief . |
| 19 | On the basis that it was to be a ‘ one-off ’ , and following conclusive proof that it could read DCA/RFT files directly off the company network , the syste was allowed . |