Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] that it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chinese also knew another archaic type of water-clock , a floating bowl with a hole in its base that was adjusted so that it took a specific time to sink . |
| 2 | A bedcradle was placed so that it relieved the weight of the bedclothes from her legs . |
| 3 | Lamprey was reading the second , and so far no word had come downstairs that it had been rejected . |
| 4 | He said when Mr McKay 's sick note was sent in it was not picked up that it had anything to do with the accident . |
| 5 | When he craned to stare down at the crowds in the great square below the palace , his head moved so that it rested upon the parapet like a decoration . |
| 6 | She had said , her eyes glittering with simulated enthusiasm , that she could hardly wait to get to her cottage , and Betty had said wistfully that it seemed like years since she had seen a blade of grass ( which was silly in itself , because of what else were the lawns of Hyde Park composed ? ) ; so Lydia , unhinged with the shock of bereavement , and further undone by wine , had said she could come too . |
| 7 | The forest corridor through which the elephants were to walk was so heavily logged over that it had disappeared in some places . |
| 8 | However , A. Alföldi has identified the head as that of Antoninus Pius and shown also that it did not belong to the club . |
| 9 | So , there were no leaks or speculative articles about the paper 's contents and publication was deliberately timed so that it arrived on news desks ahead of the finalised Cadbury Report . |
| 10 | Because it was publicly owned , its activities were restricted so that it did not compete unfairly with the private sector . |
| 11 | Supplementary Benefit was to give way to Income Support and the much-abused system of single payment was to be replaced by a Social Fund ; Housing Benefit was to be reformed so that it did not discriminate against the low-paid in work ; and the whole social security system was to be simplified . |
| 12 | They were originally thought to have been two closely related species occurring together in the same rocks , but these ‘ pairs ’ were so consistently found together that it became more and more probable that they were sexual forms of the same species . |
| 13 | The Department of Environment also announced yesterday that it had abandoned the system it has used for most of the past 10 years to channel extra housing cash into the 57 worst affected inner-city areas . |
| 14 | I saw how Brian Basham of Broad Street Associates and the barrister , Royston Webb , helped venal journalists to turn a sow 's ear into a golden purse , and how that golden purse was well received everywhere that it opened . |
| 15 | Very few people are surprised by the merger , but many were taken aback that it happened so soon after last year 's franchise battle . |
| 16 | Theories have been put forward that it had anything from 6 to 24 sides , and even that it may have been circular . |
| 17 | Mr Peter Stewart , hospital unit general manager , would not comment on the outcome of the appeal until he had heard officially that it had been defeated . |
| 18 | He shakes his head and I get a shiver , remembering just that gesture of his , repeated and repeated so that it became like a nervous tic after a while , back in Strathspeld , after Clare 's funeral in ‘ 89 ; a gesture of disbelief , refusal , non-acceptance . |
| 19 | The retreat must be carefully conducted so that it did not turn into a rout . |
| 20 | The cat 's cradle had elongated so that it looked like a cone . |
| 21 | A buzzard soared overhead , its heavy wings braced so that it rose effortlessly , drifting with the air-stream . |
| 22 | This could be done more effectively if the law was changed so that it became the jury 's responsibility to assess only the actual damage to the plaintiff and the judge 's responsibility to impose an unlimited fine on the defendants according to his view of their culpability . |