Example sentences of "[noun] [that] it [vb past] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such was the novelty of this circuit that it provoked much debate in the technical press as to its operation . |
| 2 | He appeared to shrug off the news but there is no question that it interjected some kind of identity crisis into his life . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | It seems unlikely that the dance was copied into the score at the wrong point : if it had been , one would expect to find it headed by some warning that it belonged several pages later — otherwise severe complications would result in orchestral parts copied from the score . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Its honours for impresarios and maverick businessmen — what The Times called examples of ‘ unrepentant Darwinism , of the business survival of the fittest and of nature red in tooth and claw ’ — so appalled them and the Palace that it took several weeks for approval to be obtained . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | That the new system generated little moral authority was less important than the fact that it gave many Sri Lankans access to the power of the state . |