Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun sg] that it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 When he uttered those words , a lot of development was still taking place in Britain ; in fact it was only this summer that it ended , leaving commercial centres throughout the land replete with unlet space in shopping complexes , offices , business parks and industrial estates .
2 We rehearsed so much stuff that it 's given us plenty of music to play around with on the tour .
3 We realise that this prospectus may not answer all your questions , or even that it contains so much information that it leaves you confused .
4 This pattern of land distribution reflects such great disparities and brings about so much poverty that it represents one of the major problems that agrarian reform has addressed .
5 We were playing with so much arrogance that it needed something like that to make us play .
6 There was so much snow that it seemed impossible that this was not the natural surface of the earth .
7 Among them , the suggestion that during surgery her head was n't properly supported , or that a surgical hammer used in the operation was applied with so much force that it damaged her spinal cord .
8 A leading Right-On thinker , she had co-written the Beyond The Fragments book which had started as a mere pamphlet , but had attracted so much interest that it had been upgraded and sold an extremely respectable 20,000 copies in paperback , having a major effect on its earnest readership .
9 The origin of life is a sufficiently probable event that it tends to arise about once per solar system ( in our solar system Earth is the lucky planet ) .
10 But there is only scattered evidence that it did until the later nineteenth century .
11 As of November 1991 , the Commission had found only one merger that it considered would not be compatible with the Common Market , which resulted in the merger being prohibited , namely , the proposed acquisition of De Havilland by ATR , a joint venture between Aerospatiale ( France ) and Alenia and Selenia ( Italy ) .
12 The impact of mortality rates on the early development of the life assurance industry had much greater significance that it does today .
13 There is nonetheless little doubt that it has spent much of its working life as a corn mill , grinding corn for the local population .
14 Some managers are convinced that PRP will improve performance and raise income , but there 's hardly any evidence that it produces any improvements .
15 If we make the more realistic assumption that it takes a finite period of time then we have to take into account the fact that replacement of the lower lithosphere by hot asthenosphere during extension will lead to heat being conducted laterally into unextended , and therefore unthinned , lithosphere , as well as vertically into the overlying upper lithosphere ( Fig. 4.17 ( C ) ) .
16 ( It should come as little surprise that it showed a deficit , albeit of only £55,000 . )
17 In interviews with a number of panel members filling various roles in the project , and including members of the coordinating committee , it was generally acknowledged that the panel was often less than well chaired , with a fairly universal feeling that it lacked direction and a clear sense of purpose .
18 " It has been dinned into the ears of our members without hesitation or scruple , and we repeat with the greatest force at our command that seamen , to whatever class they may belong , are false to themselves , to their cause and to their country in taking any course that may , even in the smallest degree , weaken the hands of those responsible for the conduct of the present campaign against the most ignoble foe that it has ever become Britain 's duty to tackle " .
19 By the mid-1980s the Thatcher government was coming under increasingly embarrassing criticism that it had opted for the second style of social policy .
20 Wimpey made a loss in 1991 of £16.1m but has restructured by selling off businesses and said earlier this year that it believed the worst was over in the construction industry .
21 But if we are to understand it , and , particularly , if we are to distinguish within it between cynical accommodation and genuine playfulness , we are going to have to go beyond the embarrassingly inappropriate assumption that it has something to do with ‘ Brechtian ’ distanciation or ‘ modernist ’ self-reflexiveness .
22 The very pages of his own magazine express the discernibly patronizing indulgence that it seems the American expatriate community extended to him .
23 Micro Focus , meanwhile , is offering a fully dynamic system that it claims is as polymorphic as Smalltalk in that it supports dynamic look-ups and can implement an untyped system .
24 The English church was thus an essentially Erastian church , and by 1500 the English crown had few reasons to complain about the otherwise privileged position that it had acquired within the realm .
25 Maybe , but there 's a pretty good chance that it came from a farm workshop .
26 Even before the report went to the printers , the Ombudsman , Sir Anthony Barrawclough , was told by the DTI 's most senior officer that it intended to give its own view , in a separate document , on the responsibilities of regulators .
27 I very much regret that it appears that the Labour party 's plans for the Audit Commission may water down its effectiveness by handing control to the Labour party 's chums in the unions and local government .
28 And child care is the key to dependency , for the very simple reason that it takes a lot of time and is unpaid ’ .
29 And childcare is the key to dependency , for the very simple reason that it takes a lot of time and is unpaid .
30 The use of the modular approach initially brings the very real advantage that it appears to be more acceptable to users and provides greater insight for the designer of the design problem .
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