Example sentences of "[noun] [that] it [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , it was one of the great merits of manufacturing to the early eighteenth-century observer Daniel Defoe that it brought increased employment and greater prosperity to a district compared with those which remained wholly dependent on agriculture . |
| 2 | There were abortive attempts at a settlement by the American Secretary of State , General Alexander Haig , and discussions over a Peruvian peace plan which would bypass the British contention that it possessed sole sovereignty over the Falklands . |
| 3 | Such was the novelty of this circuit that it provoked much debate in the technical press as to its operation . |
| 4 | By 1800 there was a widespread argument in the medical and moralistic texts that it caused physical illness , and features such as acne , epilepsy and premature ejaculation . |
| 5 | He appeared to shrug off the news but there is no question that it interjected some kind of identity crisis into his life . |
| 6 | America 's close association with Israel led to expectations that it enjoyed indirect control over the behaviour of the latter . |
| 7 | Cords Plc manufactures a style of corduroy trousers that it sold last year at £18 each pair . |
| 8 | The Philips Report was so concerned about the increasing proportion of elderly people in the population that it thought some rise in the minimum pension-age inevitable . |
| 9 | On July 24 the Djibouti government rejected suggestions by Ahmed Ali that it sought territorial expansion at the expense of Somaliland . |
| 10 | This was open to the criticism that it imposed constructive liability : a person who risked a minor assault might be held guilty of a more serious offence if ‘ actual bodily harm ’ happened to result . |
| 11 | There was public and media speculation that the real purpose of the ANC 's letter was to rally its supporters in the townships , and to fend off criticism that it attached more importance to pressing on with constitutional negotiations with the government than to defending its own people . |
| 12 | He was joined by Peter Sheppard a few years later when it became apparent that so much information was potentially available from flight recorders that it needed another man to help interpret all the data . |
| 13 | In a way this was not such a radically different view from Mannheim 's because the sociology of knowledge was sociologism in the sense that it held that truth was only ‘ true ‘ for ’ certain groups of men ’ ( Grunwald 1970 : 238 ) . |
| 14 | Vienna , Virginia-based Legent Corp warns that it expects to report net profit of about $18.4m or $0.52 per share for the second quarter ended Aprch 31 , compared with the $0.44 before charges that it reported last year ; turnover will be about flat with the $102.5m a year ago : the news caused a bloodbath in the Legent share price , which slumped 16% , $6.125 , to land up at $33.25 . |
| 15 | Enquiries led me to owner Tony Allen and the information that it awaited final paperwork after having had floats fitted . |
| 16 | Productivity Computer Solutions Ltd of Wakefield , Yorkshire has both the Hewlett-Packard and the Sun Microsystems Inc versions of Liken under an agreement that it signed last week . |
| 17 | Images of Nazism and the war appear so often on the screen that it took some effort to realise that these were real people inside those costumes ; that the peaked cap and leather boots were n't on hire from the wardrobe department . |
| 18 | Had the Conservatives won the election by a whisker , which at one time seemed likely , they would probably have plumped for a Labour Speaker ( on the grounds that it took one vote off the Opposition ) . |
| 19 | Approval of the treaty had at first been opposed by West Germany 's Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) on the grounds that it offered inadequate protection for East German industry , and that environmental guarantees were insufficient . |
| 20 | Although the Accord was approved by most of the provinces by the end of 1988 , Manitoba and New Brunswick had withheld ratification on the grounds that it offered insufficient protection to Quebec 's English-speaking minority . |
| 21 | Its length was entirely related to the fact that it contained good news and , once again , Opposition Members did not want to hear it . |
| 22 | The district benefited from the fact that it had comparative information on performance from a large range of providers which enabled them to take a more detached view of the strengths and weaknesses of its own unit , even though it also increased the complexity of contracting . |
| 23 | Rather , the fact that it made any headway at all bears witness to the degree to which wide sections of the British public became alarmed by the apparent drift of Chamberlain 's foreign policy . |