Example sentences of "[noun pl] that it [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We have been so sensible , fair and reasonable with Lovell Homes that it 's probably been to our detriment . |
| 2 | The USSR must not be given the chance to persuade Germans that it had more to offer than the West on the subject of unification and neutralization . |
| 3 | The Pigou-Friedman view that competitive market economies tend to gravitate towards a state of overall full employment is now such a firmly entrenched proposition in macroeconomics that it has almost gained the status of an axiom . |
| 4 | The Passport Agency deserves our congratulations on the improvements that it has already achieved . |
| 5 | The percept initially evoked by A , therefore , must be equated with the a and c elements that it activates unconditionally , After training , however , presentation of A activates not only these but also elements that in other circumstances are unconditionally activated by stimulus X. The pattern of central representation ( and thus , by one definition , the percept ) is changed by experience , making the phenomenon an instance of perceptual learning . |
| 6 | This bird , born around 1762 , lived in such comfortable circumstances that it had already reared eight broods when , to the consternation of its noble owner , it suddenly developed the plumage and spurs of a male and thereafter refused to lay another egg . |
| 7 | However , so long as we remain in the Community , Parliament has effectively handed over a number of functions that it has traditionally fulfilled . |
| 8 | So popular were the proscribed celebrations that it proved quite impossible to eradicate them completely . |
| 9 | Instead of guarantees that the story really happened , we get promises that it has all been made up . |
| 10 | The dense grey sky seemed denser than before , so grey in places that it seemed almost green . |
| 11 | Of course arpeggios and passage-work generally can freely pass through this part of the compass : it is only when a passage turns and returns on itself within these narrow limits that it becomes both really awkward for the player and uninteresting in sound . |
| 12 | They had become such friends that it seemed unnecessarily unkind of him to stay away . |
| 13 | Iran has recently been prominent in world events , which has reminded outsiders that it has never been more important to understand the people of Iran , their culture and their traditions . |
| 14 | Times were hard , and society did not take the same enlightened view of illegitimate children that it does today . |
| 15 | , Mercury accumulation in lakes across Canada and the United States continues to pose a threat to health , despite earlier claims that it had virtually been eliminated as a problem , according to recent studies . |
| 16 | But at the very same time , it 'll retain many of the overheads that it 's currently got , the overheads of management , some staffing overheads , the overheads for maintaining the estate of the , of , of , of the hospital . |
| 17 | The government has given repeated assurances that it has never sought such dispensation . |
| 18 | It is now so overgrown with vines and creepers that it has half returned to the jungle . |
| 19 | In the western provinces , where the newly established , populist , Reform Party had campaigned strongly against the agreement on the grounds that it made too many concessions to Quebec , the margins of rejection were the highest in the country . |
| 20 | Several governments , particularly that of the UK , sought during 1989 to portray the expansion of nuclear power as a suitable response to global warming , on the grounds that it emitted virtually no " greenhouse gases " . |
| 21 | On April 4 President Özal announced that Turkey had admitted 100,000 Kurdish refugees , reversing its previous decision to close its borders ( which it had taken on the grounds that it had neither the infra-structure nor the resources to cope with the flood of Kurdish refugees ) . |
| 22 | In brief , in 1615 Andrewes was a member of a commission appointed to consider the request of Lady Essex for an annulment of her marriage on the grounds that it had never been consummated . |
| 23 | Fourth , the argument can not be rejected on the similar grounds that it argues directly from the fact that you might be wrong to the conclusion that you do not know . |
| 24 | Volkenstein ( 1959 ) criticized the theory , mainly on the grounds that it concentrates entirely on barriers to rotation , neglecting intermolecular cohesion , and that it is not applicable to low-molecular-weight polymers , which also form glasses . |