Example sentences of "with [noun] that it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see , an island like Hodges is so occupied with copra that it produces nothing else . |
| 2 | Sun is so flush with cash that it plans to buy in up to 7.5m of its own shares , 7.5% ; the purchases will be funded from available working capital and the shares will be held in treasury or used for ongoing stock issues for its employee share ownership plans . |
| 3 | His name would probably have been ‘ Shiney ’ or ‘ Stainey ’ and he would have had an apron that was so stiff with shellac that it stood up on its own . |
| 4 | ‘ Adoption is higher , because of the richer relationship with God that it involves ’ ( Packer 1973:231 ) . |
| 5 | GRASEBY ACCOMPANIES PLUNGING PROFITS WITH NEWS THAT IT PLANS TO FLOAT ITS GRASEBY ANDERSON BUSINESSES |
| 6 | Hewlett-Packard Co accompanied news that it had made $261m net profit for its fiscal first quarter ( a decline of 21% before a big accounting charge last time ) with news that it cut 1,700 jobs worldwide during the period . |
| 7 | There 's a superb comic performance from Robert Austin as the hilariously touchy yet deeply sympathetic manservant Maitland , and outstanding work , too , from the 15-year-old Kellie Bright as Laurel , an alarmingly forward yet painfully vulnerable child who announces that her mother ‘ is so overloaded with sex that it sparkles ’ . |
| 8 | She turned her back on him , praying that he would not touch her , her throat so tight now with tears that it seemed to be closing , her chest feeling as if frantic hands were hammering it from the inside , bursting it — in several raw , sore places — wide open . |
| 9 | Only now mattered , for the present moment was so filled with beauty that it smothered the effort of climbing , and with every gasp of breath came a physical response to the glory of the day . |
| 10 | If we were to come across an object the like of which we had never before encountered , we would be in no position to determine whether it was an artefact or not , or to conclude with certainty that it had actually been designed and made by human beings . |
| 11 | I mean , you know , if you see an advert in the paper that tells you that every fifty pence you spend is going to save a child 's life by providing it with Diralite or providing it with food that it needs for a money , or something like that , I mean how can you justify keeping any fifty pences at all yourself ? |
| 12 | For the next four years he sat as an engrossing clerk on a stool in the dusty office , so thick with dust that it entered the sunbeams ; and bent over crabbed writing in the books , or showed dull clients in to see his father , or sat the examinations , which he passed . |
| 13 | We are all so bombarded with information that it requires a lot of will-power to set out to find more information . |