Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [adv] [verb] that it " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for Egypt , I do not think that the hon. and learned Gentleman is seriously suggesting that it is about to launch an attack on Israel , or is to be feared in that connection . |
| 2 | It produces no smoke , and its heat output is so controlled that it is not much warmer than the surrounding air and therefore hard for infra-red devices to detect . |
| 3 | Filigree Street crosses its turnwise end in the manner of the crosspiece of a T , and the Broken Drum is so placed that it looks down the full length of the street . |
| 4 | After Mrs Wordingham 's death later in 1989 , Mr Wordingham applied to the High Court for rectification of the will under s 20(1) ( a ) of the Administration of Justice Act 1982 , which states that ‘ if the court is satisfied that a will is so expressed that it fails to carry out the testator 's intentions , in consequence — ( a ) of a clerical error … it may order that the will shall be rectified so as to carry out his intentions … ‘ . |
| 5 | If , however , a society is so divided that it contains within itself one or more permanent minorities , who know that on the issues that matter most to them they can never hope to get their way , precisely because of the operation of the majority principle , then that principle ceases to be adequate . |
| 6 | It is now necessary to consider when a commercial transaction is so structured that it can not be said that the parties are dealing on standard terms at all . |
| 7 | However , Brenda 's turn is so constructed that it starts in London English with a statement about what happened , and switches to Creole at " cause " ( which could be London English or Creole ) — precisely the point where she begins her explanation of why she acted in this way . |
| 8 | The glass is so smeared that it hardly counts as a reflective surface . |
| 9 | But if the entire building is so damaged that it has to be torn down and rebuilt , the landlord collects from his insurer to rebuild . |
| 10 | Joan 's use of Creole is so limited that it might be called tokenistic . |
| 11 | The reader is also informed that it is not normally possible to obtain high resolution on NMR spectra from solid samples . |