Example sentences of "that it [verb] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | The most important was that it offered far more opportunity professionally . |
| 6 | The Divisional Court felt that it followed inexorably that privilege must attach to the photocopies made in those circumstances . |
| 7 | ONE problem with a high-tech war is that it requires so much technology . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The trouble with the poll tax , as with comprehensive education , was that it took too little account of how we really are . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But a corporation created by or in pursuance of an Act of Parliament is subject to the rule that it has only such powers as are expressly conferred , or are necessarily or reasonably incident to the fulfilment of the purposes for which it is established . |
| 15 | Unfortunately for IBM , its problems are not simply that it has too many staff . |
| 16 | I want to say in conclusion that it has as many consequences for the devout Evangelical as it does for the hardened Catholic . |
| 17 | But in fact the whole fluffy , vapid confection is so resolutely unmemorable that it gives as much offence as a toothless poodle . |
| 18 | The term ‘ software ’ must be very broadly defined , so that it includes almost all aspects of a project from its specification and design through to the delivery of executable code . |
| 19 | We realise that this prospectus may not answer all your questions , or even that it contains so much information that it leaves you confused . |
| 20 | Note the point that it covers only those parts which are readily visible and accessible . |
| 21 | Over £200 was raised and head teacher Dr. Alan Leech said that it portrayed yet another aspect of music at Bohunt . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |