Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pron] that it " in BNC.
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| 1 | They deal with the dignitaries in the politest possible way , but it is clear to everyone that it is not the dignitaries they have come to see and talk to , but the ordinary people . |
| 2 | The only item of business , the election of the Khashort space of time that it was clear to everyone that it was little more than a formality . |
| 3 | It may mislead people into obeying the law where , but for their consent , it would have been clear to them that it is better to disobey . |
| 4 | My hair is so thick and there 's so much of it that it 's just too annoying for me . |
| 5 | Then , ‘ Shall we have coffee first before we have a look around ? ’ he suggested , and Fabia immediately felt warm towards him that it was n't to be a ‘ straight in and out ’ trip . |
| 6 | I used to have a file , but I found that , as with so many files one opens , I was putting so much in it that it ceased to be useful . |
| 7 | And so , from 1958 onwards , these characters became my dolls , and their way , of life and the houses they inhabited became so real to me that it was quite a shock when I occasionally returned to the place which had started it all , Wood Green , near Witney . |
| 8 | While they lived in la Sologne it never occurred to either of them that it was even possible for people like themselves to study music and become professional musicians . |
| 9 | It did n't really occur to either of us that it would end , and there would be a baby . |
| 10 | It was because I was subconsciously sure of them that it never occurred to me that I could be rejected . |
| 11 | The confrontation convinced them that , on the contrary , they were so dogmatic and sure of themselves that it was obvious that they had no intention of being deterred . |
| 12 | Human selfishness is so real in all of us that it requires no social encouragement , as in the breakdown of marriage , to pass it on to our children . |
| 13 | These few days with you have been like this country before me here — a new paradise , an enchanted place so rich in itself that it needed nothing else . |
| 14 | It 's probably not to yourselves providing the compensation was paid and that 's fine , but it would be a matter of great importance to those for whom that it would have to provide the money . |
| 15 | At opposite extremes are the ‘ seamless web of learning ’ party who would appear to argue that integration is so noble in itself that it should be undertaken whether teachers can handle it or not , and the committed and dogmatic subject specialist with a bookful of behavioural objectives and forty pages of sequenced syllabus to back them up . |
| 16 | As her eyes widened he added , ‘ Perhaps now you can understand the reason why I bought it and why it is so important to me that it should succeed ? ’ |
| 17 | Sight is so important to us that it dominates the way we perceive the sensory worlds of other animals , and even dictates the vocabulary available to describe those worlds . |
| 18 | You might think that E is so important to you that it 's ten , and that 's quite alright you can do that . |
| 19 | She was as much a part of this murky landscape now as if she had been born here , every step of the way between Miss Gemma Dallam 's cloistered corner and her own — in spirit a universe apart — being so familiar to her that it seemed she had always known them , or had known them before , in another place , a dozen other places ; another life . |
| 20 | The Chopinesque left-hand arpeggios , the repeated chords of Mozart and Beethoven , Strauss 's waltz rhythms , popular song accompaniments ( with bass on the downbeats , chords on the upbeats ) , and so on — all are already so familiar to us that it has seemed superfluous and pedantic to describe them . |
| 21 | He did n't tell her that he had been so worried about her that it had been hard to concentrate on sharing the hurt with Marcus , on blocking out the punishment–hey put him through . |
| 22 | It was some moments before it occurred to any of them that it might well be Chris or the tardy boy from the bistro , harmlessly appealing for admission to his promised evening of jollity and sustenance . |
| 23 | I 'm very annoyed with myself that it 's got round |
| 24 | THE Government 's Homeswap Scheme is designed to help council and Housing Association tenants exchange properties but so few people seem aware of it that it hardly works . |
| 25 | It may be so , but diplomatic calculation also would have persuaded both of them that it was better if Alice did not marry an Angevin . |
| 26 | Computervision Corp so wants to put its sad ownership by Prime Computer Inc behind it that it is remaking itself in the pure computer-aided design software image of the company Prime acquired as quickly as it can . |
| 27 | He was at a loss to describe the sky , its lilac whiteness , so ineffable above him that it was like a secret waiting to be deciphered , reflecting everything and seeping into the thin mist on the ground . |
| 28 | He found it was too large to be caused by a gravitational field : if it had been a gravitational red shift , the object would have to be so massive and so near to us that it would disturb the orbits of planets in the Solar System . |
| 29 | The council grew so tired of lorries cutting this corner short and hitting the casement of the listed building next to it that it had to build a specially high kerb . |