Example sentences of "[adv] [that] it [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Human language is much more powerful — so much so that it has been suggested that the ability to speak is what really distinguishes people from animals . |
| 2 | It may be possible to distract a horse in some other way than in giving it food , so that it tolerates being shod . |
| 3 | She could not remember her dream , only that it had been about Edmund and that he loved her . |
| 4 | The Earth and the Moon are so close together that it has been estimated that the exposure of both planets to asteroids and comet debris has been much the same . |
| 5 | Lamprey was reading the second , and so far no word had come downstairs that it had been rejected . |
| 6 | Wembley confirmed tonight that it has been given the go-ahead to make more room for wheelchairs . |
| 7 | Not that it had been difficult , he thought disgustedly . |
| 8 | THE extraordinary thing about Laura Ashley is not that it has been dragged back from the financial brink ; it is that it was ever pushed there in the first place . |
| 9 | What is theoretically and politically interesting and puzzling is not that it has been defended by the powerful and the better-off sections of the community but that it has been so widely accepted by those who suffer as a result of its continuance . |
| 10 | In the case of Charles the Bald , though , given the rich documentation , and the giants ' spadework , the surprising thing ( to invert Dr Johnson on women preachers ) is not that it 's been done badly , but that — with two partial exceptions — it has not been done at all . |
| 11 | The consortium behind the $7bn management buyout , in which BA would have a 15 per cent stake , admitted yesterday that it had been unable to complete its part of the financing . |
| 12 | But solicitor Ray Tooth , who represented the wife in the £1 million split , said yesterday that it had been an exceptional case . |
| 13 | Labour attempted to pre-empt any jobs package by stressing yesterday that it had been pressing for such measures since before Christmas . |
| 14 | This was the first time since 1948 that the entire Legislative Yuan had been elected , and the first time ever that it had been elected entirely within Taiwan . |
| 15 | Financial support between relatives has one feature which is not shared by other types of support , namely that it has been regulated by the law . |
| 16 | he pointed out that it had been made by a woman who met life unafraid : ‘ Georgia O'Keeffe has had her feet scorched in the laval effusiveness of terrible experience ; she has walked on fire and listened to the hissing vapours round her person … |
| 17 | It was clear to me from this letter that we were engaged again , if that was what I wanted , and I did ; also , that the natural happiness and buoyancy of Leslie 's nature had reasserted itself , now that it had been released from what he had felt to be the cramping frustration of home service . |
| 18 | Now that it had been draped by thick blankets stripped from the beds upstairs it was very dark . |
| 19 | The Trees had crossed half of the floor now and the nearest one — Fenella could see now that it had been a Larch , elegant and slender — was already inching its way across the slimy black pool of the Melanisms , creating a kind of bridge . |
| 20 | It was standard procedure for such conglomerates to collect contemporary art , now that it had been recognized that such art was plentiful , reasonably affordable , and able to yield substantial returns . |
| 21 | She had been right in her assumption about the photograph — she was sure now that it had been taken at one of those supper parties , and without prior warning . |
| 22 | Deal or no mysterious deal , now that it had been established that he had not tracked her down all she wanted was for him to go . |
| 23 | ‘ Now that it has been shown that it adds to the greenhouse effect we will start a programme to further reduce the use of SF 6 and to study replacements in the foundries , said Sven Plahte of Hydro 's magnesium division . |
| 24 | However , now that it has been decided that a Sunday game of 50 overs per side is a better idea ‘ for cricket ’ , many are already beginning to rue the demise of the 40-overs game . |
| 25 | Now that it has been shown in Liverpool that there are powers to confiscate offending equipment — as there always have been in Scotland — may I ask my hon. Friend to draw those powers to the attention of local authorities — and , through the Home Office , the police — so that the public may be protected from this menace ? |
| 26 | Now that it 's been revealed that this really was her true story and not a jolly pack of lies , there 's no fun in reading it . |
| 27 | But they tell me now that it 's been increased immensely now what they get for being an oven man . |
| 28 | Yes , we were n't too happy with the point situation because we considered it went too low , but having said that , now that it 's been democratically voted in , we are one hundred per cent in obeyance with it and we are going to go along with it . |
| 29 | before that it had been done in eighty one , eighty two , eighty four , eighty six , eighty eight and ninety , so curiously now , it 's it 's missed out several years , |
| 30 | Welcome back:A new clinic … the first of it 's kind in Britain … is cutting hospital waiting lists so fast that it 's been described as a runaway success . |