Example sentences of "that it [vb past] [adv] [adj] [noun] " 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 | One glance at Hannah 's meadows told me that it had very real prospects because it did not have the lush , emerald green appearance of chemically fertilized land . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Labour leaders in the USA claimed that NAFTA would destroy jobs and that it offered little concrete provision for retraining . |
| 9 | The most important was that it offered far more opportunity professionally . |
| 10 | The Divisional Court felt that it followed inexorably that privilege must attach to the photocopies made in those circumstances . |
| 11 | Indeed , the only good thing about their confrontation against Sukova and Novotna is that it took just 50 minutes to complete , with the established Czech combination sweeping to a 6-2 , 6-2 victory and a place in the semi-finals against the United States . |
| 12 | The trouble with the poll tax , as with comprehensive education , was that it took too little account of how we really are . |
| 13 | Here , contamination with metals , says Battarbee , occurs ‘ about ten years before the first evidence of acidification ’ , which suggests that it took only ten years to exhaust the lake 's capacity to buffer pollution . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Both the size and the overall structure of the text helped enormously here , in that it comprised only 11 sentences totalling 130 words . |
| 17 | Though he had never seen their cottage he seemed to remember that his aunt had told him that it lay about two miles to the south . |
| 18 | Vienna , Virginia-based America Online Inc said that it added over 25,000 subscribers to its bulletin board service in the last month : Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen has plans for the company . |
| 19 | An investigation of the Directorate published in Izvestiya of Oct. 22 , 1992 , revealed that the October 1991 order to form it from the troops of the Russian Interior Ministry was unknown to Supreme Soviet deputies ; that its personnel was armed and " in exceptional circumstances " could distribute its arms to people 's deputies ; that it guarded about 75 buildings in Moscow , " two-thirds of which have absolutely no relation to the parliament " ; and that it came under the jurisdiction only of the parliamentary Chairman . |
| 20 | The answer is that it included particularly rich concentrations of royal resources : Dorestad with its emporium and mint ; major churches , including the metropolitan sees of Rheims and Sens , and rich abbeys like St-Denis and St-Wandrille , on whose endowments the Carolingians had laid their hands ; a number of royal palaces , and many royal estates and forests , both Carolingian patrimonial lands around the lower Meuse and old Merovingian ones in the Seine basin , especially along the Oise ; and last but not least , good communications , including a surviving Roman road-network . |
| 21 | There is some historic evidence to suggest that it included about 800 titles , among which some so important that they have tantalised historians ever since : works by Cicero , Tacitus , the Greek historian Polybius , the playwright Aristophanes etc. , quite possibly in complete versions . |
| 22 | Over £200 was raised and head teacher Dr. Alan Leech said that it portrayed yet another aspect of music at Bohunt . |
| 23 | Such was the enthusiasm and unanimity of the delegates of the steering committee that it required only two meetings to complete their task . |
| 24 | He said the Rover was about thirty years old ( 'and that 's a damn sight younger than I am' ) and that it did only sixteen miles to the gallon . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In Germany the most important aspect of the reorganisation of the foreign ministry after the war was the creation of a new department to foster and supervise foreign trade , the Aussenhandelstelle , so large that it occupied over 120 rooms . |