Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [noun sg] that it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Excavations at Water Newton have yielded little evidence about the settlement 's everyday life apart from the industrial aspects already discussed , but there can be little doubt that it enjoyed a close relationship with the imperial estate in the Fens , by acting as a processing and marketing centre conveniently placed both for road and river transport . |
| 2 | The problem is not primarily that is a hapax legomenon , for there can be little uncertainty that it means " something thin " ( from , " crush " ) . |
| 3 | The department of health has been recommending early penicillin treatment in meningitis cases since nineteen eighty eight , but there 's never been any evidence that it works , until now . |
| 4 | For these reasons it seems reasonable to suggest that all lifeforms on Earth shared a common origin : there is little likelihood that it sprang up contemporaneously in several different parts of the globe . |
| 5 | Modest and unsophisticated though this activity may appear to the educationist there is little doubt that it issued in some constructive change in the school , not least , one suspects , in the degree of staff cohesion . |
| 6 | As we pointed out earlier , the kind of model for insider evaluation that Shipman proposes has a long history and there is little evidence that it has been significantly displaced by newer alternatives . |
| 7 | So although those carers in the action sample were grateful for the help they received from the Home Support Project ( and almost without exception carers throughout the action samples expressed the same sentiment ) , there is scant evidence that it contributed to allaying feelings of strain . |
| 8 | So obvious is this problem that it did not really need a questionnaire to highlight it . |
| 9 | So continuous is this precipitation that it has earned itself the name of ‘ marine snow ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's some consolation that it has been found but it 's a shame it could n't be retrieved in time for Remembrance Sunday . |
| 11 | LTP has since been found in all excitatory pathways in the hippocampus , as well as in several other regions in the brain , and there is growing evidence that it underlies at least certain forms of memory . |
| 12 | It is of course an external system , well over 150000 light-years away , and it is sheer coincidence that it lies almost behind the two globulars , 47 Tucanæ and NGC 362 . |
| 13 | it 's blue paper that it came off the fax machine I 'm sure er |
| 14 | So complete was this victory that it ensured a kind of uneasy peace for nearly three years . |
| 15 | When the BMJ , in its special commemorative number for the Queen 's Diamond Jubilee in 1897 , reviewed the development of the profession over the previous sixty years it was this aspect that it chose to trumpet . |