Example sentences of "that it [vb past] [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | The real clincher was that it made better tea and beer than the pump muck . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Six countries bordering the Black Sea — Bulgaria , Georgia , Romania , Russia , Turkey and the Ukraine — have agreed on a three year programme to tackle pollution of its waters , after an international scientific group warned that it faced ecological death unless urgent measures were taken . |
| 10 | The main point of the case was that it involved domestic property where the client would suffer ( as a private purchaser ) a relatively great loss if the report were negligent , while the risk that would have been undertaken by the surveyor , if he had accepted liability for negligence , would have been relatively low , since it was a routine survey of domestic property , and for him , as a businessman , the value of the property in question was not relatively a great amount of money . |
| 11 | Okapi was certainly easy to use and most people found that it needed minimal learning and relearning . |