Example sentences of "[that] it [vb past] [det] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 It will also handle both little and big endian byte ordering so as to be able to run personal computer operating systems such as Windows NT as well as Unix , although the company denied that it had any plans to support NT on it — the capability is simply there if anyone wants it in the future , the company said .
2 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 .
3 The responsibility had lain so heavily that it took some time to readjust .
4 They would have married sooner but had to wait for her divorce ; Pamela Chrimes told me that it took some time to obtain the evidence of adultery which was then necessary .
5 Such was the official secrecy , or confusion , that it took several weeks to confirm that no RCM boys were among the casualties .
6 Frequently the results were so error-prone that it took more effort to correct the translation than it actually did to manually translate the text .
7 The benefit of the system was that it demanded that society intervened for those who were under great pressure and could not take the stress .
8 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 .
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