Example sentences of "that it [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The surviving corner showed that it had at some stage been thickened to 7½ft or possibly , as the plan suggests , extended to form a buttress or column base . |
| 2 | If only he knew that looking after his dogs had made her feel that she had just the smallest stake in his life , that it had in some measure comforted her for his absence . |
| 3 | The Training Agency frequently claims that it insists on non-discriminatory practices , but ‘ all the evidence points to widespread exclusion of Black trainees from prestigious employer based schemes … most likely to lead to full-time jobs , top-ups to the allowance and higher quality training ’ . |
| 4 | One of the reasons for difficulty in diagnosing this condition when it first occurs is the apparent similarity of the symptoms that it produces to those associated with cystitis . |
| 5 | A deadly nerve poison , it was once used as an animal poison but is now banned on the grounds that it kills with extreme cruelty . |
| 6 | There is a striking analogy here with crystal growth , except that it happens in two dimensions , not three . |
| 7 | Kathleen Lavender held out a cardboard box between her hands , speechlessly , so that it looked like some kind of dumb offering and Dorothea at once remembered the solicitor 's stiff letter , her own shamed surprise and then her agitation . |
| 8 | Weasel thought that it looked like some dark fungus or mushroom . |
| 9 | I can only say that it sounded like one of those across the passage from my room . ’ |
| 10 | Here is the offensive chorus of the song that started the fight : The magistrate listened to all this with a benevolent interest , although he confessed that it sounded like six-of-one and half-a-dozen-of-the-other , and that it would be unwise to take any action without clarifying evidence . |
| 11 | Following evidence produced at the Special Commissioners ' hearing , W purported to revise the accounting period by virtue of s 247(8) , TA 1970 so that it ran from 1 February 1977 to 31 January 1978 , rather than 25 October 1977 . |
| 12 | Only a quarter say that it led to in-service training and a fifth think that it improved staff relations and improved teaching methods . |
| 13 | His impact was such that it led to further villainy — as the probably gay hit man in the Big Combo ( 1955 ) , as a rapist and murderer in Ride Lonesome ( 1959 ) , as Lee Marvin 's psychotic side-kick in The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance ( 1962 ) as well as more conventional heavies in Gunfight at the OK Corral ( 1956 ) , The Tin Star ( 1957 ) and How the West Was Won ( 1962 ) . |
| 14 | Until comparatively recently there was a general belief or tacit agreement within the community that the later years of life were a time of " all passion spent " — that sex stopped or should stop with the menopause in women and that it continued into later years only in old men who were awarded the epithet " dirty " . |
| 15 | Profiles of Development presupposes a common developmental path , and thus encourages the control of pupils ' learning experience so that it conforms to that path . |
| 16 | Craig ran his hand through his hair so that it sprung into small curls giving him a rakish appearance . |
| 17 | The predictions are supported by evidence that male dwarfism is an evolutionary strategy in solitary , sedentary animals , that it evolves in low population densities ( high search costs ) , and that it correlates with a female-biased adult sex ratio ( reduced male competition ) . |
| 18 | She said Thresher was aware of the receipt for £18.37 and had established that it belonged to another customer . |
| 19 | The central question ought to have been how to reconcile the economic system with the resource-base that it plunders with accelerating and reckless indifference . |
| 20 | She swung the paddle with such enthusiasm that it landed with mind-boggling force across his fundament , making him yelp and grab the cheeks of his tormented seat with both hands . |
| 21 | Both management and unions tend to keep a tight grip on local activity to ensure that it keeps to national agreements and to avoid the embarrassment and disruption of uncontrolled local initiatives . |
| 22 | In fact one of the great things about this walk is that it keeps for most of the time to the shoulder of the fells so that they fall away steep sided below you giving you clear views out and down . |
| 23 | For internal audit to carry out these responsibilities it is essential that it operates with adequate independence . |
| 24 | The winter wind skeetered viciously along the dirty pavement and the grey air was so thick with cold that it felt like frosted glass against the raw flesh of my face . |
| 25 | One is to telephone , or write to her beforehand , saying that things have been so hectic at your end recently that it seemed at one point that you might have to postpone your visit for a week or two , but that you are so keen to see her that you are absolutely determined to ‘ make it ’ somehow , even if it has to be just a ‘ flying visit ’ . |
| 26 | Thus , for example , we may be 99 per cent sure that the true population value is within 3 per cent of the estimate , or 99.9 per cent sure that it falls within 10 per cent of the same estimate , or 95 per cent certain that it falls within 1 per cent of the estimate . |
| 27 | Thus , for example , we may be 99 per cent sure that the true population value is within 3 per cent of the estimate , or 99.9 per cent sure that it falls within 10 per cent of the same estimate , or 95 per cent certain that it falls within 1 per cent of the estimate . |
| 28 | A cool little breeze was blowing , and she shivered as it ran playfully over her heated skin and ruffled the long strands of her silvery hair so that it spilled like spun gold down her back , tangling with the lace . |
| 29 | The proposition that it passes through one of the most beautiful parts of England is total nonsense , because it passes through what is virtually surburban Southampton . |
| 30 | The model of style proposed here is " pluralist " in that it allows for three distinct levels ( semantic , syntactic , graphological ) at which stylistic choices can be made . |