Example sentences of "that [noun] [vb mod] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have done my best to understand and respond to the desire of people in Cardiff that the scheme should be set out in the Bill so that Parliament can consider it . |
| 2 | The Prime Minister believes that employers should provide it or that women should be able to afford it . |
| 3 | After flirting with Modernism in his earlier fiction , John Fowles was to deride the whole idea as late as 1982 , with Mantissa , which makes elaborate fun of the tradition of Joyce and argues that fiction may find it hard even to survive the grinding tedium of the nouveau roman . |
| 4 | A similar switch-over type of story can be written by doing what I have counselled writers of full-length detective stories not to do : by slipping in a tiny clue in the hope that readers will miss it . |
| 5 | She had seen this money before , of course , and still had a little collection of it that she had made as a child , yet it was disconcerting to reflect that Johnny would use it as part of his everyday life . |
| 6 | I thought , I I well , I do n't envisage anything but I mean I would of thought that kids could fill it in in pencil and then we do the same as we did before a and and that the staff in some way put in their own . |
| 7 | As I shall illustrate later , that cost could not be met , and I do not think that Labour would do it . |
| 8 | But I stick to my pre-season prediction that Arsenal will have it tucked away well before the last ball is kicked . |
| 9 | ‘ If Dino Zoff decides to pick him then he must be confident that Gazza can handle it . |
| 10 | Hound Tor is a deserted settlement in Manaton parish , high on the east side of Dartmoor , which was excavated some years ago and has been left open so that visitors can see it . |
| 11 | Lack of uniform enforcement of EC laws meant that companies would find it cheaper to move elsewhere , he said . |
| 12 | According to a recent report from the market research company Mintel , customer perceptions of quality in products and service have more to do with their expectation that companies should get it right first time than with the belief that they should provide a safety net to protect consumers once things have gone wrong . |
| 13 | It is far better and essentially less embarrassing for such education to be given at school than within the family , even if it could be certain that parents would give it or that their children would listen . |
| 14 | I was anxious that Ivy should read it in manuscript , for fear that it might not be published in her lifetime : it was a story of family tyranny that must appeal to her . |
| 15 | I can not see any way that South Africa can win this international , but three distinct ways that England can lose it : IRISH referee Stephen Hilditch proved in Paris last year that he fears nobody , favours no nation . |
| 16 | Or would they silently assume that Franca would do it , or at least arrange it ? |
| 17 | France prepared one , hoping that Russia would reject it and that the Habsburg Empire would join the western powers . |
| 18 | It was obvious that Alexei would find it hard to talk . |
| 19 | The incident had never been referred to again and Dorothea did not believe that Alida would remember it . |
| 20 | Rather its relevance lies in the way it constrains the interpretation of [ 14a ] so that hearers can see it as an interpretation of the speaker 's thoughts about the state of the pound . |
| 21 | I can imagine that Tom would find it funny . |
| 22 | If the former , she would wish to be very certain of the value of the prize and fully confident that war will secure it . |
| 23 | Gharr had already tried to get me out of the way — probably thinking that Mala would collect it and her too . |
| 24 | We are optimistic that restoration will help it enormously ’ . |
| 25 | I wondered why I had n't had the wit to take the starveling cat to Mother Joseph as soon as I knew that Nour might kill it . |
| 26 | He startled Philip with him , so impressed Emlyn Williams with a recitation on a London street in a blackout that Williams could recall it precisely forty years later , and introduced anybody he thought would appreciate it to the dark-vowelled , consonant-cracking language of the man whose most famous work would be Under Milk Wood , whose first performance — on radio and stage — would star Richard Burton . |
| 27 | He turned the picture so that Faye could see it , as well as Belinda and Bill , who had just arrived , briefcase in hand and shirt collar rather tired-looking after his long day . |
| 28 | Everyone else had gone to Japan and I was still in New York trying desperately to get a visa for Russia but I could n't get one , so I convince Tony deFries that if I went to Japan and went to the Russian Embassy in Tokyo , they 'd be so confused by an American applying for a visa in Tokyo 's Embassy that i could fake it and get one , and he said I was welcome to try . |
| 29 | Under the old system , which included rent in supplementary benefit so that tenants could pay it themselves , many tenants were able to shuffle their weekly budgets — this week buy some kids ' shoes , next week the rent , this week the gas bill , next week the rent . |
| 30 | To do this they will need not only a knowledge of the vocabulary of steps through which dancers communicate , but an ability to explain their design so that dancers can give it depth of feeling ( see page 78 ) . |