Example sentences of "that it [verb] [det] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The CEGB would perhaps be more fully convincing in its argument on fuel diversity if it could show that it had more real commitment to the development and use over a long time scale of renewable-energy technologies . |
| 2 | We gave a few outlines of schemes of work and bits and pieces of information , but I would n't have said that it caused any great feeling of self-analysis . |
| 3 | The pluralist account is descriptively sound , therefore , but may be open to the charge that it ignores this broader vision of socio-economic and political change . |
| 4 | language … gives structure to experience , and helps to determine our way of looking at things , so that it requires some intellectual effort to see them in any other way than that which our language suggests to us . |
| 5 | ‘ Thirty years ago Julian Huxley and Eliot Slater speculated that the reason why the disadvantageous schizophrenia gene was not progressively eliminated from the gene pool was that it conveyed some biological advantage such as resistance to infection . |
| 6 | I was only three-and-a-half when I saw the Zeppelin , although I can not claim that it kindled any positive interest in flying . |
| 7 | The avoidance of blackmail may become so over-riding an objective that it obscures all other logic . |
| 8 | It was so successful that it replaced all other control methods and the insect ceased to be a major pest . |
| 9 | The product itself , for example , though useful may be so commonplace or so inexpensive that it has little intrinsic interest outside its own application . |
| 10 | One of the reasons it thinks that COSE is interested in its participation is that it has some key technology that in typical DEC fashion , it has failed to trumpet . |
| 11 | The tribunal is not restricted to evidence acceptable in a court of law ; provided that it has some probative value the court will not reassess its weight . |
| 12 | The first time was during the 1930s , when the court first read the commerce clause of the constitution so narrowly that it gutted much New Deal legislation , and then suddenly reversed itself . |
| 13 | The snow is so white that it reflects any available light . |
| 14 | The problem with this type of promotion is that it undermines any sensible perception which purchasers of children 's books might have of what constitutes value for money . |
| 15 | A second important contribution made by the notion of implicature is that it provides some explicit account of how it is possible to mean ( in some general sense ) more than what is actually " said " ( i.e. more than what is literally expressed by the conventional sense of the linguistic expressions uttered ) . |
| 16 | Although the civil rights strategy could not have been adopted by republicans without the approval of the leadership of the IRA — and Roy Johnston stressed the importance of its involvement in the Maghera meeting of 1966 — — this does not mean that the army council initiated the setting up of NICRA or that it paid any detailed attention to the work being done by republicans within the association . |
| 17 | I can not see that it serves any useful purpose . |
| 18 | I I would I would suspect that it needs some some interpretation . |