Example sentences of "that it [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1930s and 1940s research on one large mollusc , the squid , revealed that it had truly giant nerve axons , which could be dissected out individually and were big enough to insert electrodes into . |
| 2 | Here was a country so backward that it had only one landing strip , a mile of tarmacadam road , six schools and two hospitals that were really little more than clinics . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Suppose a botanist working on the taxonomy of the ( hypothetical ) Peruvian bladder-grass family ( Vesicaliaceae ) discovered that it contained only one genus , Vesicalia , and that the genus had but one species , V. peruviensis . |
| 5 | Regarding economic management , one tenet of monetarism is that the effects of money supply changes involve both long and variable lags , so that it assumes too much expertise on behalf of politicians to imagine they can time expansive monetary policy to their advantage . |
| 6 | Labour leaders in the USA claimed that NAFTA would destroy jobs and that it offered little concrete provision for retraining . |
| 7 | The most important was that it offered far more opportunity professionally . |
| 8 | The Divisional Court felt that it followed inexorably that privilege must attach to the photocopies made in those circumstances . |
| 9 | ONE problem with a high-tech war is that it requires so much technology . |
| 10 | Amstrad has eschewed the popular PenPoint operating system on the grounds that it is overly complex for the PDA 's requirements — which is basically to emulate a paper-based organiser , and that it requires too much processor horse-power . |
| 11 | The US and the Anglo-Saxon countries , for example , complain that it spends too much time and makes too little progress on basic standards , which they see as of benefit to developing countries alone . |
| 12 | The trouble with the poll tax , as with comprehensive education , was that it took too little account of how we really are . |
| 13 | There can be no doubt that it takes gruellingly hard work to reach the top echelon in aerobatics , and each member of the British Aerobatic Team '92 has more than adequately demonstrated their worth . |
| 14 | Unfortunately the orientation of the palazzo means that it gets very little sun to set it off ; this together with the dark paint and stonework , means it looks rather sombre . |
| 15 | Forget the doubters : British Coal knows that it has only one way to go , and that is forward . |
| 16 | But in fact the whole fluffy , vapid confection is so resolutely unmemorable that it gives as much offence as a toothless poodle . |
| 17 | We realise that this prospectus may not answer all your questions , or even that it contains so much information that it leaves you confused . |
| 18 | Over £200 was raised and head teacher Dr. Alan Leech said that it portrayed yet another aspect of music at Bohunt . |
| 19 | Try ‘ I 'm pleased that the office manning problem is on next week 's agenda — I 'm worried that it needs more urgent attention ’ or ‘ I love it that you 've asked me to go away — it 's bothering me that I 've got to do this report by Monday . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm pleased that the office manning problem is on next week 's agenda — I 'm worried that it needs more urgent attention . ’ |
| 21 | The UK government 's strategy for reducing carbon emissions has been attacked by environmentalists , who argue that it places too much reliance on voluntary action by industry and the presumed effect of market forces , and that it pays scant attention to the need for research into energy efficiency . |
| 22 | 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 . |