Example sentences of "and [noun pl] that it " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can learn so much from simply watching their actions and reactions that it is always worth sacrificing fishing time to spend an hour or so studying their behaviour . |
| 2 | Goebbels 's rhetoric that ‘ the German people has never looked up to its Führer so full of belief as in the days and hours that it became aware of the entire burden of this struggle for our life ’ , and that far from being discouraged ‘ it stood all the more firmly and unerringly behind his great aims ’ , sounded even emptier than usual . |
| 3 | I got so committed to the story down there , and I 've got so many friends among the Muslims , Serbs , Croats , peacekeepers and peacemakers that it would be very hard to let it go . |
| 4 | What Labour needs above all is the network of working-class activists , sympathisers and supporters that it had in workplaces and on housing estates even as recently as 20 years ago . |
| 5 | It submits to Parliament reports which carry considerable weight , and its recommendations are taken very seriously by the departments and organizations that it examines . |
| 6 | Even music is so often used as a ‘ background noise ’ in shops and restaurants that it sometimes seems that we have forgotten how to listen to it . |
| 7 | Investment occurs in so wide a variety of assets and sectors that it must be disaggregated substantially if any close statistical fit is to be found . |
| 8 | These set the minimum amount of capital ( free assets , or the amount by which an insurers ' assets exceed the actuarial calculation of its liabilities ) that an insurer must have to reassure customers and regulators that it can meet its liabilities . |
| 9 | The latter may not realise in a coherent way what is afoot , but it knows that the duty of a government is to provide law and order and senses that it is not deploying its resources to do so . |
| 10 | Looking back on that then , you must have lost a great number of colleagues and workmates that it must give you sort of mixed feelings looking back on it ? |
| 11 | But it 's the heart that rebels and protests that it just does n't feel right . |
| 12 | Whatever happens , the Botswana conference will affect the status of so many important animals and plants that it should put CITES well and truly on the map . |
| 13 | Certainly the third and fourth sessions approved of texts and ideas that it would be hard to imagine would have appealed to many of the bishops before the Council began . |
| 14 | All that the Bill contains , and the ideology behind it — the values and principles that it espouses — must be rejected tonight in favour of genuine local democracy , and a Labour Government who will implement real policies for the people whom we represent . |
| 15 | In the bewildering tracery formed by the work and by the claims and counter-claims that it has provoked , there is matter for a hundred lectures , and what follows is neither and attempt to summarize , nor a rival undertaking . |
| 16 | Firstly , although referral patterns will reflect individual practice , continued use of dilatation and curettage by gynaecologists reinforces the notion for general practitioners and patients that it is appropriate treatment for menstrual irregularity in women under 40 . |
| 17 | In May 1937 street fighting had broken out in Barcelona and was used as an excuse for outlawing the " Trotskyist " POUM , not in fact Trotskyist but a breakaway from the Spanish Communist Party in close touch with the British ILP.6 By 1938 the Communist Party had so entrenched itself through the use of Soviet aid and advisers that it was able to force the resignation of Prime Minister Prieto and to improve its position in the Cabinet . |
| 18 | It seems to have persuaded the Gulf kingdoms and sheikhdoms that it is no longer a militant exporter of Islamic revolution . |
| 19 | Through radical ‘ reflexive ’ spectacles , all this excavation work occurs so late in the process of constructing crime and criminals that it never gets to the foundations . |
| 20 | When I ask the people of the estate what they want from this election some say they want Cheviot to rebuild it and others that it would be better grassed over . |
| 21 | In principle the question of whether a liberal democratic state can be used constitutionally to transform capitalism into socialism remains empirically open ( depending upon the definition of socialism adopted ) , with some Marxists arguing the impossibility of such a solution ( Przeworski , 1985 ) , and others that it is both feasible and welcome ( Esping-Anderson , 1985 ) . |
| 22 | In 1985 it purchased the Grosvenor and Charing Cross hotels in London and entered into joint ventures with the large American hotel chain Ramada Inns to manage these hotels and others that it intends to buy . |
| 23 | We have received so many messages and letters that it is just not possible to acknowledge them individually . |
| 24 | It had originally been erected in AD 276 in the reign of Florian , and records that it stood M(ille) P(assuum) I ( i.e. one Roman mile ) from its official point of measurement . |
| 25 | " The tomato " , says M. Verdier , " imparts its delicious taste , at the same time acid and slightly sweet , to so many sauces and dishes that it can fairly be classed among the best of condiments . |
| 26 | The Law Commission concluded that some remedy of this type should be retained but considered that the old remedy was so hedged about with limitations ( in particular , it provided no power of sale ) and obscurities that it would be better to create a new , statutory right . |
| 27 | He was so quick to forgive personal insults and injuries that it was said that you only had to injure him in order to have him as a friend for life . |
| 28 | It is now so overgrown with vines and creepers that it has half returned to the jungle . |
| 29 | When I visited Bishopshalt school with my hon. Friend , I saw for myself the superb improvement in equipment and facilities that it has managed to achieve only shortly after attaining grant-maintained status . |
| 30 | Interestingly , it is now so much in demand for weddings , conferences , company launches and events that it easily pays its way . |