Example sentences of "[adj] [that] it [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Ford , however , has made it clear that it wants ultimate majority control of Jaguar — something which the company 's board , led by chairman Sir John Egan , is resisting fiercely .
2 In a sense this is an extreme form of heterogeneous accretion of volatiles , though the separation of planetary accretion from the veneering by volatiles is so complete that it merits separate consideration .
3 It is ironic that IT makes fundamental change both essential and possible , but — to repeat — we need the change anyway .
4 Health and safety watchdogs say they 're not convinced that it has sufficient safety measures in place to protect passengers .
5 The bid-ask spread was so large that it converted significant profits into significant losses .
6 It has leg-like fins with fleshy bases like the coelacanth ; it seems very likely that it had air-breathing pouches from its gut like a lungfish .
7 The British Shippers ’ Council has made it plain that it welcomes foreign competition as a means to lower rates of freight .
8 But nevertheless in terms of twelve families that 's very important to those twelve and it 's a small step , but the problem is so big that it needs concerted Government action to solve the problem of homeless people in Oxford .
9 Since the Great War , 1914–18 , it has been practiced by wage-earners , suffering from long periods of unemployment and underemployment , so drastic that it seemed abject folly to produce children who could neither be adequately nourished nor sufficiently educated to secure a satisfactory livelihood .
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