Example sentences of "[that] it [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She ate quickly , partly because she was so used to eating alone now that it seemed more a practicality than a pleasure , and partly so that the servants might have their own dinner at leisure in the kitchen . |
| 2 | Such were the quantities of alchohol consumed that it seemed only a couple more years before London saw its first designer louts and designer riots . |
| 3 | The attractiveness of this model is that it requires only a modest increase of temperature of around 100°C at the base of the lithosphere . |
| 4 | It is not necessary to reach agreement with Dr Bryan 's moral scheme in order to see that it involves quite a different moral emphasis from that projected on to the 1930s by post-war nostalgia . |
| 5 | But the growing interest in it suggests that it offers both a possible way out of present impasses and a way forward . |
| 6 | It is when the physical phenomenon of soil erosion affects people so that they have to respond and adapt their mode of life that it becomes also a social phenomenon . |
| 7 | They assume that erm it 's very difficult to talk about reality , that reality means different things to different people , that people create in many ways their own reality , and they 're interested in the process therefore of fiction-making , they 're interested in erm how people create their own fictions , so that it becomes almost an endless series of mirrors , novelists writing novels about novelists writing novels and so on . |
| 8 | Or without extending the whole process so that it takes nearly a year to change anything ? |
| 9 | In it he said that the Scottish financial sector did nothing to help the country 's economy , that it benefited only a selected minority , and that it put little back into Scotland . |
| 10 | It seems to me that it lacks somehow a soul or a purpose . |
| 11 | Its distinguishing feature is that it uses only a very few basic operators — typically just one , called modus ponens , or some equivalent — which are very well understood and reliable . |
| 12 | The view from many of the schools which took part , is that it tells only a fraction of the story . |
| 13 | ‘ The real value of the CANZ series is that it brings together a group of national level players for two weeks with games against consistently top level opposition which would be difficult to duplicate anywhere else . |
| 14 | While accepting wholeheartedly the value of this sort of study — the discipline that goes by the name of philology in English-speaking countries — Saussure argued that it gave only a partial account of linguistic phenomena . |
| 15 | Notice that it reflects less a dramatic change in the number of mergers and more a spectacular increase in the size of companies involved . |
| 16 | The list itself is secret , although it is a fair bet that it contains only a few genuinely brilliant minds , and fewer still who are likely to rock the boat . |
| 17 | As specified , a causal circumstance includes no more than was needed to necessitate the effect , which is to say that it included just a set of conditions or events such that if the set existed , so did the effect , and still would have even if certain other conditions or events had also existed . |
| 18 | The major drawback with the Byrne approach , however , is that it provides only an incidental guide to the way in which the services might be allocated between different types of local authority . |
| 19 | Gestetner made pre-tax profits of £27.2m last year on sales of £900.3m , but the company has since said that trading in Europe has deteriorated and that it sees only a small profit for the half to end-April.Inchcape is buying the shares from Bermudan-registered Chiltern Capital Ltd , quoted in Australia . |
| 20 | The fact that it captured only a third of the vote indicates that the public has had enough of the bickering between its two old war-horses , M Chirac and M Giscard d'Estaing . |
| 21 | The graphs show that the feedforward net 's output was less close to the ( new ) ideal output , and also that it varied quite a lot . |