Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] that it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Economic and Monetary Union ( EMU ) wo n't happen , nor will the progress towards European political union that it was supposed to advance . |
| 2 | To be sure , the great apes behave so intelligently and have such a rich social life that it seemed extraordinary to many people that they could not learn to speak . |
| 3 | I entirely agree with the right hon. Gentleman that it is undesirable for any delegation to stay away . |
| 4 | Firstly , it might argue that so much of what doctors do lacks solid scientific support that it would be ludicrous to try to insist that all doctors practise scientifically valid medicine all the time . |
| 5 | Although the institute now has a staff of 28 at its Kensington headquarters , it copes with the collection only because few people know about the free public listening service that it offers . |
| 6 | Although Viking was lying quietly enough at the moment we could tell by the sudden gusts which hissed down from the high southern cliff that it was blowing quite hard on the weather side . |
| 7 | An African praying mantis has even more spectacular eye-spots with an almost hypnotic spiral design that it employs in a similar way . |
| 8 | Such is the efficacy of propaganda for the global capitalist system that it is rarely capitalism itself that is targetted in such cases , but the symbols of American or European national power . |
| 9 | While the comprador class may ( but not necessarily ) admit that its interests and those of the foreigners it serves are antagonistic to those of co-nationals , the transnational capitalist class conceives of its interests and the interests of the global capitalist system that it serves , as identical with those of national development . |
| 10 | Reflecting in her vague kindly way that it was very nice for Jasper to have friends of his own age to play with in the holidays , a lot better than in the days when he had lived in that tower block in Walworth , she was still thinking along these lines as she entered the gateless gateway and found her eyes irresistibly turning upwards to the bell . |
| 11 | They also applauded the constitution , and the pattern of political participation , class rule , and limited legislative activity that it embodied . |
| 12 | What is likely to matter most when someone is buying your product is a quite vague general impression that it is familiar and that they have heard good of it somewhere : not an explicit memory of an ad . |
| 13 | It still retained the same dark blue colour that it had when it was stamped into the passport by a British policeman 32 years earlier ; last exit from Palestine . |
| 14 | Vincent Hodgkiss observed in a tight pleasant voice that it was hard to determine the colours of objects in this light , which seemed opaque , though hot and dry . |
| 15 | Nuadu could see that even the pale , jellied part of one eye was partly missing and he had the sudden sickening impression that it had been eaten away from within . |
| 16 | Such is the informality of this unique little island that it matters not who you are or what you have . |
| 17 | Although electrical excitability in the nervous system had been demonstrated before the beginning of the nineteenth century , it was not until the late nineteenth century that it was shown that the brain was spontaneously electrically active Jeannerod 1985 ) , and it was only in the 1930s , after the invention of the valve amplifier , that it was possible to make meaningful records of this activity . |
| 18 | I mean , if there 's a copy in the information office is that good enough proof that it 's gone ? |
| 19 | So there is a very strong sense , produced by both the narrative and the musical design , that the mad-scene ( hallowed operatic device that it is ) is a truthful climax of everything that has preceded it . |
| 20 | Consequently the effective osmotic pressure that it exerts on biological membranes is far less than its osmotic pressure measured by an osmometer . |
| 21 | If , as it may be , such a system would cost more to operate than grant payments do , it would be of little advantage except in the important psychological sense that it would be a greater personal investment by the farmer over a longer time period . |
| 22 | And the great thing is that it is such a tangible difference : in the Bentley you are faced with so much quality and classical good taste that it is relatively easy to see where your money has gone . |
| 23 | The key question is now no longer whether stress accelerates ageing — there is a growing medical consensus that it can do so and often dramatically — but how best to prevent it . |
| 24 | The Guide-lines Commission interpreted an ambiguous statutory injunction that it take correctional resources into ‘ substantial consideration ’ as a mandate that its guide-lines not increase prison population beyond existing capacity constraints ( Tonry 1988 ) . |
| 25 | Even the fact that it could be different , let alone any evidence that it might be capable of improvement , justifies study of it . |
| 26 | Much British cinema does lack emotional punch , and many screen Englishmen conceal their feelings so effectively beneath a stiff upper lip that it 's fair to ask whether they 're really human at all . |
| 27 | And wh what tends to happen is the dreams are , are , are repetitive , although they often vary in small details , and the idea is , or this was Freud 's , Freud 's idea , and basically it 's the same as his explanation of anxiety dreams , that , that what is happening here is that the mind has got a very disturbing latent content that it ca n't forget . |
| 28 | It is a measure of Mr Smith 's extraordinarily well-starred political horoscope that it was his quiet , determined recovery from his illness — rather than illness itself — that leaves the more lasting impression in one 's mind . |
| 29 | But sleep came unawares , for he was woken by Luib in the dark and told by the peppery old Myrcan that it was his watch , and that Corrary was on after him . |
| 30 | The simplified and more rational legal framework that it introduced is unified by some powerful principles that speak to those issues . |