Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] that it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1600 , the renegade monk Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for numerous heresies , including the proposition that the universe is infinite and that it contains an infinite number of worlds . |
| 2 | A more recent commentator on Marx 's concept of ideology , Jorge Larrain , accepts that the concept is vague and that it has to be worked out from what little Marx wrote ( Larrain 1979 : 36 ) . |
| 3 | I mentioned earlier that a particular meaning might be made accessible but that it does not necessarily follow that it will be acceptable . |
| 4 | It 's as if you 'd gone out into the bigger world and found out that it 's frightening or that it hurts , so you go home . |
| 5 | We know then that the legend is false and that it became attached to a much older custom , but what was the Horngarth itself and for what purpose was it erected ? |
| 6 | The terms should also make it clear that the committee has the power to investigate matters within its brief and that it has full access to information . |
| 7 | Remember that Dickens was writing before Freud had begun to uncover the immense complexity of the human personality , before William James 's pioneering work on consciousness , which showed that our conscious mind is not solid but that it runs like a stream , swirling endlessly around symbols , associations from the past ; always moving , never at rest . |
| 8 | These data suggest that the state 's contribution of resources to elderly households through the provision of support services is , for most services , not substantial and that it varies with the type of household . |
| 9 | He knew that the universe was complex but that it obeyed certain rules , although , she supposed , he would n't have used the word ‘ obey ’ with its implication of conscious choice . |
| 10 | Many firms find that the implementation process is not merely complex but that it amplifies strains in the internal politics . |
| 11 | ICL says this upward trend is continuing and that it has gained another 1% in 1992 . |
| 12 | That code was to be developed to ensure that public transport met the needs of all passengers , including the disabled and that it worked efficiently in the consumers ' interest . |
| 13 | The major criticism of this approach to describing organisations is not that it is inaccurate but that it ignores all the informal and interpersonal aspects of organisations and concentrates too heavily on the formal aspects of work organisations . |
| 14 | When nuns make vows of celibacy they are saying that something is true for them in particular but that it does not belong to them . |
| 15 | It was once considered obvious that the earth was flat and that the sun went around the earth , yet since the time of Copernicus and Galileo , we have had to adjust to the idea that the earth is round and that it goes around the sun . |
| 16 | He will recall that , when British Rail proposed that Waterloo should be the first channel tunnel station , not only did it say that one station was sufficient and that it did not need a second one but , in the case which it put to the House of Lords during the discussions , it said specifically that King 's Cross was not an appropriate location for a second station . |
| 17 | The worse criticism , of course , is not that Carpenter 's Gothic was cheap nor that most of the styles chosen were imitative but that it did no good . |