Example sentences of "[that] it [vb past] [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disappointed , though , that it had so little capacity , that the machine 's power was squandered so liberally on the user interface rather than running the applications . |
| 2 | The emperor attended the première , and seemed to approve , despite his observation that it had too many notes ( ‘ Just as many as are necessary , your majesty , ’ Mozart is said to have replied ) . |
| 3 | The essential feature of the life which Eliot had constructed for himself is that it contained as few surprises as possible : it has been said that , for over thirty years , he patronized the same tailor , the same tobacconist and the same wine merchant . |
| 4 | The most important was that it offered far more opportunity professionally . |
| 5 | The Divisional Court felt that it followed inexorably that privilege must attach to the photocopies made in those circumstances . |
| 6 | The trouble with the poll tax , as with comprehensive education , was that it took too little account of how we really are . |
| 7 | In the western provinces , where the newly established , populist , Reform Party had campaigned strongly against the agreement on the grounds that it made too many concessions to Quebec , the margins of rejection were the highest in the country . |
| 8 | As one of the best records of 1990 it was actually a lucky escape that it sold so few copies , missed Top Of The Pops , slipped the chance of a slot on youth TV and lost the chase for Sunday newspaper publicity . |
| 9 | Over £200 was raised and head teacher Dr. Alan Leech said that it portrayed yet another aspect of music at Bohunt . |
| 10 | He was tall and reasonably good-looking , with a slightly sad , very reserved look which could melt into a charming smile , so intimate that it unbalanced almost any girl he cared to direct it at . |