Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] [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 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She wondered if she would have let herself get involved had she known in advance that it entailed so much messing with entrails . |
| 8 | The Bank has indicated to IBOA that it has no intention of introducing Performance Related Pay across these Grades . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Clive had a stammer and had learnt through regression that it had originated when he had been the subject of bullying at school . |