Example sentences of "and [noun] [that] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lardie was the last fluent speaker of the Kalkadoon language , a language of such versatility and ingenuity that it stands as a monument to human intellectual development . |
| 2 | The state of English teaching in schools had obviously , by the late 1980s , become a cause of such radical complaint and discontent that it was not surprising to find a committee of inquiry set up to look into its proper aims and methods ( The Kingham Committee , 1987 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It submits to Parliament reports which carry considerable weight , and its recommendations are taken very seriously by the departments and organizations that it examines . |
| 8 | Around me , as the pirates and Famlio stared at Gharr , the atmosphere grew so much charged with fury and tension that it almost crackled , like a defective energy field . |
| 9 | Although I am always prepared to enter discussions with the hon. Gentleman about hypothetical matters , one must also balance the amount of time and expense that it would take to comment on something that is not a reality . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It is so small and mobile that it could easily be hidden , and it can carry nuclear or conventional warheads . |
| 12 | Moscow has increased the number of countries with which it has commercial dealings from four in 1960 to over twenty by the end of the 1970s , but the volume of trade has not exceeded $30 million with more than eight ( Argentina , Brazil , Uruguay , Peru , Bolivia , Mexico , Colombia and Nicaragua ) and it is only with Argentina , Brazil and Nicaragua that it has risen above the $100 million level . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | So give us a call come on the line tell Chris and Kieran that it 's er the Superbike competition you 're coming in for and then say rider A Michael is from where , rider B Randy is from where and rider C is from there . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Much work has centred on activities that are criminal , by contemporary definitions , but are hidden and undetected — one of the greatest benefits of power being the privacy and impunity that it seems to guarantee ( see Geis and Stotland , 1980 ) . |
| 18 | Although the technology was not microprocessor-based , and the events are now thirty years past , the study 's theoretical approach and empirical findings are of such interest and relevance that it is worth describing them in some detail . |
| 19 | My own reaction , as the latest sickening episode even exceeds in depravity and licentiousness the grossness of the last one , is that I no longer wish to be associated with a UK Government which is so lacking in moral leadership , compassion , wisdom and humanity that it can allow such a situation to continue to exist , while having the capacity to intervene . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | We heard stories of such sadness and desolation that it was difficult not to be moved to tears . |
| 22 | But it 's the heart that rebels and protests that it just does n't feel right . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Christie 's cover lot also failed to sell : Lord Leighton 's ‘ Moorish Garden : a Dream of Granada ’ was left unsold at £340,000 ( estimate £400–600,000 ) ; questions concerning its condition ( what would happen were the wax lining to be removed ? ) and opinion that it was a work not from his most marketable period seem to have dampened enthusiasm . |
| 25 | You 've got to devote a lot of time to the care and attention that it requires . |
| 26 | No I do n't think it really makes an difference on the detailed alignment of an inner relief road , I think it 's basically the perception of motorists using er the system in that part of Harrogate and Knaresborough that it would be quicker to use the existing A fifty nine through Knaresborough than you go along one of the radial routes onto er the inner relief road . |
| 27 | Thus , we would have to fall back on the anthropic principle to explain why the electron has the mass and charge that it does . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | His lyrics are abysmal tosh , his singing voice so stunted , adenoidal and gumby that it takes a real effort of will to remember that this is n't a joke , that this man is actually worshipped as a rock god by literally millions of depressed , terminally adolescent would-be heroin addicts worldwide . |