Example sentences of "[that] it [verb] [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | So , I told them that it had new blades on but they wanted it really tight , and they wanted tightening up and that so yeah . |
2 | She could tell by the feel of it that it had some papers inside , but she did not look at them . |
3 | Hewlett-Packard Co accompanied news that it had made $261m net profit for its fiscal first quarter ( a decline of 21% before a big accounting charge last time ) with news that it cut 1,700 jobs worldwide during the period . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | In May , 1991 , the Digital Information Group 's Software Industry Bulletin reported that SelecTronics expects to report a ‘ significant loss ’ for its financial year ended 31 March and that it is restructuring its business so that it manufactures handheld devices only when it has firm orders from its distribution channels . |
6 | Therefore we want to think ahead to future access to the information in the Journals , and the price is that it takes more time now . |
7 | The guide-books say little : Samuel Wallis visited it and named it Boscawen Island , perhaps after the great admiral of Finisterre ; the best vanilla in the Pacific is grown there ; and it is rumoured that the finest kavo — that faintly narcotic drink prepared from the powdered root of a local pepper plant , and an important part of rituals and celebrations in the South Pacific — is Tafahi kava , and that it renders all Tafahians perpetually slightly dopey . |
8 | Moreover , if we explore the course of English Literature , if we consider from what source its stream has sprung , by what tributaries it has been fed , and with how rich and full current it has come down to us , we shall see that it has other advantages not to be found elsewhere . |
9 | What we now call Euclidean space-time is very similar except that it has four dimensions instead of two . |
10 | The government 's emphasis on cash crop production was criticized on the grounds that it favoured wealthy exporters rather than small farmers and had hindered industrial development . |
11 | Certainly , one of the organisational reasons for centralising the buying function in a company is that it gives senior buyers more clout . |
12 | If Hamer have sought to redesign this feature so that it looks better overall then I 'd suggest that they have made a mistake . |
13 | So powerful is that consideration , it is argued , that it lifts this case out of the ordinary Cyanamid considerations ( see American Cyanamid Co. v. Ethicon Ltd. [ 1975 ] A.C. 396 ) , in which the concern of the court is to preserve the subject matter and accept the risk that if the court should refuse the child may die before final decision , as a result of an intervening choking fit from which only ventilation could save him . |
14 | The importance of this work is that it puts economic factors firmly back on the agenda as explanations of crime . |
15 | In the hospital , sitting up for the first time in several days , he had watched the doctor anointing an old man who would have made a superb St Jerome : ‘ a thin , long , sinewy brown wrinkled body with such very distinct and expressive joints that it makes one melancholy not to be able to have him for a model . ’ |
16 | It is ironic that IT makes fundamental change both essential and possible , but — to repeat — we need the change anyway . |
17 | Another syntactic feature of topic is that it controls anaphoric reference so that ( a ) once an element is announced as topic , this element may be omitted altogether in subsequent clauses , hence the proliferation of subjectless clauses in languages such as Chinese and Japanese ( see Chapter 6 , p. 185 , for an example of Japanese subjectless clauses ) , and ( b ) an element announced as topic overrides possible coreferential links with other elements in the sentence . |