Example sentences of "[that] it [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The surviving corner showed that it had at some stage been thickened to 7½ft or possibly , as the plan suggests , extended to form a buttress or column base . |
| 2 | If only he knew that looking after his dogs had made her feel that she had just the smallest stake in his life , that it had in some measure comforted her for his absence . |
| 3 | Kathleen Lavender held out a cardboard box between her hands , speechlessly , so that it looked like some kind of dumb offering and Dorothea at once remembered the solicitor 's stiff letter , her own shamed surprise and then her agitation . |
| 4 | Following evidence produced at the Special Commissioners ' hearing , W purported to revise the accounting period by virtue of s 247(8) , TA 1970 so that it ran from 1 February 1977 to 31 January 1978 , rather than 25 October 1977 . |
| 5 | Only a quarter say that it led to in-service training and a fifth think that it improved staff relations and improved teaching methods . |
| 6 | His impact was such that it led to further villainy — as the probably gay hit man in the Big Combo ( 1955 ) , as a rapist and murderer in Ride Lonesome ( 1959 ) , as Lee Marvin 's psychotic side-kick in The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance ( 1962 ) as well as more conventional heavies in Gunfight at the OK Corral ( 1956 ) , The Tin Star ( 1957 ) and How the West Was Won ( 1962 ) . |
| 7 | Until comparatively recently there was a general belief or tacit agreement within the community that the later years of life were a time of " all passion spent " — that sex stopped or should stop with the menopause in women and that it continued into later years only in old men who were awarded the epithet " dirty " . |
| 8 | Craig ran his hand through his hair so that it sprung into small curls giving him a rakish appearance . |
| 9 | She said Thresher was aware of the receipt for £18.37 and had established that it belonged to another customer . |
| 10 | She swung the paddle with such enthusiasm that it landed with mind-boggling force across his fundament , making him yelp and grab the cheeks of his tormented seat with both hands . |
| 11 | The winter wind skeetered viciously along the dirty pavement and the grey air was so thick with cold that it felt like frosted glass against the raw flesh of my face . |
| 12 | One is to telephone , or write to her beforehand , saying that things have been so hectic at your end recently that it seemed at one point that you might have to postpone your visit for a week or two , but that you are so keen to see her that you are absolutely determined to ‘ make it ’ somehow , even if it has to be just a ‘ flying visit ’ . |
| 13 | A cool little breeze was blowing , and she shivered as it ran playfully over her heated skin and ruffled the long strands of her silvery hair so that it spilled like spun gold down her back , tangling with the lace . |
| 14 | Firstly , the feeling for the tradition is very strong in the village ; secondly , Gawthorpe is an ancient settlement — its history can be traced back to a Viking chief named Gorky and there is evidence that it existed in Roman times ; thirdly , the original custom was to bring in a new May tree each year . |
| 15 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that those dramatic figures are eloquent testimony to the fact that under Labour the number of days lost was so dramatic that it resulted in near anarchy and that , as a result of our legislation , there are now proper secret ballots and democracy in the workplace ? |
| 16 | Of the many explanations for the collapse in the ninth century after such intensive cultivation without metals for 6–16 centuries , the most plausible is that it resulted from sustained failures of maize due to a leafhopper-borne virus , maize mosaic virus , which may have originated in northern South America at roughly the same time as maize was brought to the Caribbean by the Arawak about the time of Christ . |
| 17 | The family and marriage , in the particular form that it took in Victorian times , was , for the great majority of Engels 's contemporaries a sacred , eternal , and unchallengeable institution . |
| 18 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of April 25 reported that some government officials and members of the armed forces had welcomed the creation of the Forum , provided that it complied with strict government guidelines on political behaviour . |
| 19 | One of the important characteristics of those moves was the support that it represented for British liberalisation policies . |
| 20 | As Cumings has pointed out , the importance of this paper is that it foreshadowed with considerable accuracy the sequence of events over the next three years , culminating in the formal establishment of the Republic of Korea in 1948 . |
| 21 | More important was that German and Italian aid tended to arrive on request , and especially when most needed following Nationalist setbacks or preceding major pushes ; that it was channelled through Franco as Nationalist leader and not , as with Soviet aid to the Republic , through a political faction ; and that it came on easy credit terms with no political strings attached . |
| 22 | Beaverbrook said that it came from Henderson ; Balfour said that it came from Bonar Law ; Law 's biographer said that it came from Balfour ; and Crewe said that it came from Montagu and Derby . |
| 23 | The noise in the Chamber tonight did not do the House great credit , but I do not think that it came from one side alone . |
| 24 | The Administration decided that it applied to any coal owner who had actively sought to mine the coal up to the day the law was passed . |
| 25 | We had nothing at all to live on ; but one day I received a sum of money that we managed to divide up so that it lasted for many weeks , just so much a day . |
| 26 | The respondents tried to distinguish the former on what it is submitted is the irrelevant ground that it operated in legal systems , such as the French , in which the criteria for establishing jurisdictional competence did not always guarantee a close connection between the defendant and the forum . |
| 27 | The swan became so attached to Sam that it stayed for twelve years . |
| 28 | On July 12 , 1990 , the European Court of Justice ordered the German government to suspend a road levy of up to DM9,000 which it had imposed since April on heavy trucks from other countries , on the grounds that it discriminated against other countries . |
| 29 | By 1820 , it was owned and worked by Robert Wight , who continued to manufacture cloth there , the mill becoming known as Wights Mill , a name that it retained for many years . |
| 30 | As for Freud , the clitoris continues to be surrounded by the same problems that it held for nineteenth-century medicine . |