Example sentences of "that it [verb] [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stirling Moss remarked that it had six gears but needed 16 , from which you can gather that it was a bit on the peaky side . |
| 2 | Gina 's friends told him that this was a ‘ personal canvas ’ and that it had more integrity than conventional beautified portraiture . |
| 3 | The Department of the Environment has rejected the report , claiming that it contained misleading information and that the existing statutory framework was effective in controlling pollution . |
| 4 | Its length was entirely related to the fact that it contained good news and , once again , Opposition Members did not want to hear it . |
| 5 | Not only were we going through the timid rituals of conventional courtship after a six-month diet of take-away sex , but I was the one who insisted that it stay that way until we were legally united . |
| 6 | The information available to me , provided by Liverpool city council , is that it accepted 397 households as homeless in the second quarter of this year . |
| 7 | The essential feature of jobbing production is that it produces single articles or ‘ one-off ’ items . |
| 8 | The company has consistently denied that it allows dangerous emissions but , sirens have been installed to warn of escapes . |
| 9 | The real clincher was that it made better tea and beer than the pump muck . |
| 10 | I can assert of the oldest tree in the park ( if there is such a tree ) that it is an oak , but I can also say of the sentence " The oldest tree in the park is an oak " that it means the same , or that it expresses same thought as , say , its French or Chinese translation , irrespective of whether it says anything true . |
| 11 | Indeed , it was one of the great merits of manufacturing to the early eighteenth-century observer Daniel Defoe that it brought increased employment and greater prosperity to a district compared with those which remained wholly dependent on agriculture . |
| 12 | She points out that there are five thousand people on the waiting list wanting to take up a Body Shop franchise and that it takes three years before any of them succeed . |
| 13 | Chris Hook claims that it takes expert knowledge and a great deal of patience to hack into a computer system . |
| 14 | ‘ It teaches you to be patient and determined , and reminds you that it takes hard work and practice when things are n't going right . ’ |
| 15 | Here art orders our vision , deliberately interventionist in that it presents those uncertainties and anxieties of childhood where difference makes life a misery whilst providing poignant images for the artist . |
| 16 | To the extent that it avoids medical bureaucracy and so on , it is an improvement , but self-assessment is a radical change . |
| 17 | The distance between the water-level and the cover-glass should be at least 6ins ( 16cms ) , so that it gets sufficient heat and humidity . |
| 18 | The chief virtue of a private property system is that it achieves this dispersal and is therefore structurally antagonistic to coercion . |
| 19 | The answer is that it lacks human agency or human intention . |
| 20 | Its moral claims were , in the most literal sense of the word , conservative , in that it enjoined ancient truths and established values , and Samuel Johnson as well as William Blake was a hero . |
| 21 | Most of you had a shower installed because it was convenient and saved time , and also because you liked the fact that it uses less water than a bath and provides an extra bathing facility . |
| 22 | We have already seen that it rejects any notion that God is changed . |
| 23 | Again , we welcome that , but is it not sad that it comes 12 years after this Government were elected and after not just one but two Secretaries of State since I have been a Member of Parliament have been influenced because of criticism of tobacco advertising and irresponsible elements in the tobacco industry ? |
| 24 | But if an incident has occurred involving violence or which leads to a soured atmosphere at work , management may consider that it has little option but to take action . |
| 25 | Many artists are now drawn to it , and find that it has other attractions than the records of the burial of kings : they love to paint the children who come to meet the tourist with wave-worn pebbles from the sacred isle , and also the scenery of Mull , and the many lochs that indent that isle of bold headlands and rugged mountains masses , as they are seen from Iona . |
| 26 | Greenpeace anti-nuclear campaigner Bridget Woodman said : ‘ Nuclear Electric wants to operate Sizewell B in the full knowledge that it has sub-standard components and an increased potential for a disastrous accident . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ It is certainly a polygon , and our historians , experts and researchers have come to the conclusion that it has 24 sides and is 100ft in diameter . ’ |
| 28 | By the time that you have battled against the wind to get there , you may find that it has some hazard that you could not see from a distance , and then there may be no other good field within reach . |
| 29 | Involved in the idea is the injecting of emotion into the relationship so that it has some substance and the subject and object are linked by feeling . |
| 30 | Sport as part of ‘ The News ’ means that it has national significance and is part of the cultural heritage of the audience . |