Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun] [that] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That humans also fail on these sentences was regarded as support that it reflected how humans process ambiguity although arguments exist against this inference ( Briscoe , 1987 ) . |
| 2 | You see , an island like Hodges is so occupied with copra that it produces nothing else . |
| 3 | It is because of the universality of the threat to freedom contained in homophobia that it becomes highly important that we try to avoid both the language which dissociates us from sexual acts by others in which we do not want to participate , and the attitudes which that language represents . |
| 4 | Obvious because it stares you in the face as you walk in to the corrie , and also because you can see that the icicle has n't quite formed despite rumours that it does . |
| 5 | THE SALVATION Army was warned that it might be the victim of an elaborate fraud weeks before the charity revealed in February that it had been defrauded of £6.2 million . |
| 6 | Looking back on that moment , it had often occurred to Shiona that it had marked the path that their future relationship was to take . |
| 7 | There 's a superb comic performance from Robert Austin as the hilariously touchy yet deeply sympathetic manservant Maitland , and outstanding work , too , from the 15-year-old Kellie Bright as Laurel , an alarmingly forward yet painfully vulnerable child who announces that her mother ‘ is so overloaded with sex that it sparkles ’ . |
| 8 | Only now mattered , for the present moment was so filled with beauty that it smothered the effort of climbing , and with every gasp of breath came a physical response to the glory of the day . |
| 9 | If this is the case , the changes of the past 30 years may be the first signs of a return to the more traditional population distribution of pre-industrial Britain , but it must also be borne in mind that it takes a very long time to shift major population patterns , and that the present trends may only be a veneer on an underlying and more permanent structure . |
| 10 | She wondered if she would have let herself get involved had she known in advance that it entailed so much messing with entrails . |
| 11 | Hamas announced in mid-November that it had entered into a formal alliance with Iran which had promised to provide financial and political backing for " the war to liberate Palestine " . |
| 12 | The situation was especially serious in the Harer and Ogaden areas , where UN relief operations were suspended in late May until June 15 ; on June 21 the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees announced from Geneva that it had begun a food airlift to 80,000 people stranded near Gode in the southern Ogaden . |
| 13 | The Bank has indicated to IBOA that it has no intention of introducing Performance Related Pay across these Grades . |
| 14 | A Swapo representative , Mr Harmut Ruppel , announced on Wednesday that it had agreed to this , but acknowledged that this was in exchange for an executive president . |
| 15 | Windata Inc announced on Friday that it has formed a subsidiary in Israel , which will develop software for management of local and wireless communication systems : the availability of many experts in telcommunications and wireless communication in Israel make the country an ideal place for such research and development according to Greg Hopkins , Windata 's chief executive ; Israel 's privileged relationship with the European Community will provide more flexibility to the subsidiary in the firm 's efforts to penetrate European markets . |
| 16 | It was incredible , so incredible , so lost in time that it did something to me — changed my perspective , my outlook , something strange that even now I barely understand . |
| 17 | Clive had a stammer and had learnt through regression that it had originated when he had been the subject of bullying at school . |
| 18 | The swan became so attached to Sam that it stayed for twelve years . |