Example sentences of "that it [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now my intimations of the complicity between The Fat Controller and my mother grew into the utter certainty that it extended even into these murky areas . |
| 2 | Their counsel , John Mitchell , QC , said that it had yet to be decided whether an appeal would be pursued and it was unclear whether that could be arranged before the meeting at Brockville tonight . |
| 3 | Careful examination of Jones ' experiment showed that it had less in common with that of Fleischmann and Pons than the media advertised : Jones measured no heat and his neutrons were more than a billionfold too few to explain the amounts of heat that the chemists were claiming . |
| 4 | The original conception of the public corporation was that it had only to be given its ‘ marching orders ’ by the political authority and could then be left to pursue the ‘ national interest ’ as management saw fit ( SCNI 1968 : 34 ) . |
| 5 | In addition to confirming Tanabe 's election , the extraordinary party conference confirmed its new leader 's policy review , but did so only after altering its substance to such an extent that it contained little in the way of significant policy shifts . |
| 6 | Dr Thaler thinks that it happens only in trained networks because , as a network learns , its elements organise themselves into colonies that respond specifically to different features of the environment . |
| 7 | So many small rivalries existed between different cliques in the camp and so many of them seemed synthetic that it looked sometimes as if antagonism was essential to human beings as a form of self-expression . |
| 8 | And the suggestion to this Committee was that it looked , that it looked further at the five hundred thousand pounds guideline that 's been set to address the apparent shortfall on community care funding , and also that you should look at further service reductions and their implications erm , of reductions of a further two hundred and fifty thousand , and those are again picked up later in the paper . |
| 9 | This passage or corridor was carpeted in moss green , now faded and stained in places from water and the urine of nervous animals , so that it looked more like some natural substance , moss or close-cut turf , than man-made carpet . |
| 10 | ‘ My goodness me , was it really ? ’ he said laying on the Scottish accent so that it sounded more like Scotch by absorption rather than birth . |
| 11 | The suit emulated the movement that Ace had made , twisting slowly in space and freeing the air line so that it ran straight from the suit into the shuttle 's open cargo hatch . |
| 12 | In their evidence to the Redcliffe-Maud Commission , the Ministry of Housing and Local Government ( MHLG ) ( as it then was ) argued that it led neither to an improved speed nor to a better quality of development control : the advantages which flowed from delegating some of the work load to district councils were offset by the shortage of qualified planning staff in most district offices , by the limited range of problems which arose within any one area , by the difficulties caused by the natural inclination of district councils to take a ‘ narrow view ’ , and by the extra administrative complications that limited delegation usually entailed . |
| 13 | When such material is used it must be ensured that it conforms approximately in density and shape with the natural beach material . |
| 14 | Using our discussion in this chapter , edit it so that it conforms more to what you now understand to be conventions of an appropriate literary-critical style . |
| 15 | Phillips hit upon a plausible resolution of this difficulty by isolating a directly measurable proxy variable for the pressure of demand in the economy in general and in the labour market in particular : the unemployment rate , U. Although X L is an unobservable magnitude , it is reasonable to suppose that it varies inversely with the unemployment rate . |
| 16 | The first thing someone familiar with Christine Brooke-Rose 's fiction notices about the novel is that it reads almost like conventional science fiction . |
| 17 | The catch is that it operates only at temperatures just above absolute zero . |
| 18 | Erm , and then we get requests for things from the leader of the Council directly , that he wants us to respond to , the chair of that committee to erm will , will do the same thing , we 'll get requests from other departments relating to our work , some of which might of been you , we erm , the Council has a group for the finance advisory group , which is a small group of Councillor 's and officer 's that meet to discuss not in , in public session , key erm financial and other major policy erm issues that , and the reason why that group was set up , erm was that it felt like with the introduction of Poll Tax and the Local Government Housing and Finance Tax , that it needed outside the committee cycle to erm review the impact of those legislation to look at it 's finances more closely and what , and we as a policy team report into that group and get request from work from that group as well . |
| 19 | There was cramp in my neck and arms and I was so tired that it seemed almost as if a malevolent magnetism was trying to drag me to the ground . |
| 20 | The attitudinal function has been given so much importance in past work on intonation that it will be discussed separately in this chapter , though it should eventually become clear that it overlaps considerably with the discourse function . |
| 21 | Some archer fish are able to line up their prey so precisely that it falls directly into the water below , and within easy reach of the fish , instead of being knocked inconveniently into the distance . |
| 22 | The orbit of Mariner 10 around the Sun is such that it passes close to Mercury about every 2 × 88 days . |
| 23 | The snow had drifted at one end , at the beck of the wind , so that it reached almost to the eaves of the roof . |
| 24 | Commending the Criminal Justice Bill to Parliament in 1947 the Home Secretary , Chuter Ede , said that it followed closely on the lines of a Bill which had been before the House of Commons in the session 1938/9 . |
| 25 | The major difficulty , however , with this view is that it stems again from a misreading of realism . |
| 26 | As the industry edges into better times , insurance regulators are trying to ensure that it stays there by laying down tough new risk-based capital-adequacy rules . |
| 27 | When the particle reaches the point at which the particle-antiparticle pair originally materialized , it is scattered by the gravitational field so that it travels forward in time . |
| 28 | If the transferor bothers to read the transfer form he will find that it differs slightly from the one that he would have used if he transferred his shares to his wife or children . |
| 29 | The garment is so peculiar that we might dismiss it as a quirk of the rhyton carver 's imagination , but for the fact that it features again on a seal impression from Agia Triadha , where the rhyton also originated . |
| 30 | Hilton here formulates the same perceptions that govern Rolle 's understanding of the role of meditations on the Passion when he says : In fact Hilton gives no very precise rules about meditation itself because he is aware that it relates intimately to each individual 's unique personality and gifts . |