Example sentences of "[noun] that it [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The word ‘ sweet ’ is used so often throughout the scene that it loses all worth , in the same way that a Chaucerian epithet such as ‘ fresshe ’ comes to mean almost the opposite when continually applied to January 's wife May in The Merchant 's Tale . |
| 2 | Such was the novelty of this circuit that it provoked much debate in the technical press as to its operation . |
| 3 | He appeared to shrug off the news but there is no question that it interjected some kind of identity crisis into his life . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is the view of the group that it has another role in promoting dialogue on particular areas of concern : the comments on ‘ Data Sources and Research Methodology ’ produced last year are an example . |
| 6 | They have called on the Northern Regional Health Authority to issue a categorical denial that it has any plans to merge 15 health care districts into six super districts . |
| 7 | Some managers are convinced that PRP will improve performance and raise income , but there 's hardly any evidence that it produces any improvements . |
| 8 | Such a system is inherently inflationary as it encourages escalation of costs and there is no evidence that it gives any encouragement to the cost effective use of different procedures since the health care suppliers know that , whatever the cost , they will be reimbursed . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The formula seems a good halfway house , and has the saving grace that it avoids another row by commanding EC unanimity . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | For him , even choices which are clearly dictated by subject matter are part of style : it is part of the style of a particular cookery book that it contains words like butter , flour , boil and bake ; and it is part of the style of Animal Farm that it contains many occurrences of pigs , farm , and Napoleon . |
| 15 | Moreover , it is socially important for the way that it demystifies such manoeuvres . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Meals are part of the holiday social life , and such good value that it makes little difference if you drop out for a day or two to eat locally . |
| 19 | Meals are part of the holiday social life , and such good value that it makes little difference if you drop out for a day or two to eat locally . |
| 20 | The downward arpeggio in the last two bars will obviously be given to the clarinet , for besides the fact that it fits that instrument like a glove , it does not lie within the range of any other wind instrument . |
| 21 | Most of you had a shower installed because it was convenient and saved time , and also because you liked the fact that it uses less water than a bath and provides an extra bathing facility . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Iris Murdoch 's prolific fiction touches only occasionally on academia ; but she loves plots based on relations between teacher and pupil , master and disciple , and her interest in philosophy is so well known a fact that it informs any reading of her books , which are often felt to convey modern philosophical issues in lucid and digestible form . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But even if the Church takes this controversial step , there remains the fact that it has few structures for evaluating its chief resource . |
| 26 | ‘ The fact that it has some kind of playful relationship with Birmingham is something with which readers of my novels can easily cope . |