Example sentences of "that it [vb past] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , the issue here is not whether this was ‘ good ’ or ‘ bad ’ , the motive humanitarian or base , but that it had a tremendous impact upon the agriculture of the Third World at least in Latin America , South and South-east Asia . |
| 2 | Lieutenant Colonel Stewart Menzies , was preparing to clear his desk for one last time and transfer to Sir Hugh 's enormous office overlooking Whitehall , an office so secret that it had a private door and staircase that could not be overlooked . |
| 3 | When Xerox first embarked on benchmarking it helped that it had a Japanese partner , Fuji Xerox , that it could look to for information about Japanese practices . |
| 4 | The seam had been so thoroughly picked that it had a sharp edge . |
| 5 | If , as naïve young hunters , they attacked a brightly coloured prey , bit it and started to chew it , only to discover that it had a foul taste or a poisonous secretion , they would probably remember it for the rest of their lives . |
| 6 | The society will argue at the full hearing that it had a legitimate expectation that it would be consulted by the council . |
| 7 | One could only say of an electron encircling the hydrogen nucleus that it had a certain probability of being found here and a certain probability of being found there . |
| 8 | — ‘ Non , ’ Alyssia said , mastering the French word and deciding that it had a certain ring to it when used in conversation with this particular woman . |
| 9 | It worked in a similar fashion to Papin 's toy except that it had a separate boiler , thus not boiling the water in the cylinder . |
| 10 | And it was so appalling that it had a genuine effect on public opinion . |
| 11 | So , for instance , a temple with eight columns might be shown on a coin as having eight , six , four or two ; it was sufficient to show that it had a columned portico . |
| 12 | While agreeing with this description of Hoccleve 's illness as of psychotic severity , our own evaluation is that it had a more depressive quality , many of the symptoms described by Hoccleve meeting the modern criteria for serious depression . |
| 13 | The major intention of the 1936 Act , however , was specifically to encourage white-collar unionisation , and Bain and Elsheikh ( 1976 ) find no evidence that it had a significant impact upon aggregate union growth . |
| 14 | Further investigation showed that it had a large number of actions : so large that the trade name Largactil was coined . |
| 15 | It was threatened again ( though Edward VIII made it plain that he would only comply if the Liberal government demonstrated that it had a popular mandate for abolition ) in 1909 . |
| 16 | The fact that it had a happy ending was immaterial to me . |
| 17 | What Labour could hardly claim was that it had a magic formula for preserving peace with the unions , although the St Valentine 's Day ‘ concordat ’ with the unions was milked for what it was worth . |
| 18 | Although her decision to do so did not ultimately affect her position as one of this country 's most important early modernists , it is my contention that it had a profound effect on the development of her art in the 1920s and , possibly , for the rest of her life . |
| 19 | The boys parted , and Robert saw that it contained a villainous-looking man of about four foot in height . |
| 20 | At the start of the present study and , indeed , until its analysis stage we did not associate the Dounreay-Thurso area with the oil industry , and finding that it contained a high proportion of oil workers was unexpected . |
| 21 | By this finding himself relieved , he again resumed his studies until the hour of dinner , when the disorder again attacked him so violently that it produced a fainting fit , which held him till the evening ; he went soon after to bed , and passed a very uneasy , restless night . |
| 22 | Subjective reports on the effects of reduced sleep were that it produced a chronic feeling of sleepiness ( as measured by the Stanford Sleepiness Scale questionnaire ) , and , perhaps not surprisingly , increased the feeling of needing more sleep . |
| 23 | This was the theory that it kept a Long Kesh compound filled with loyalists as a propaganda exercise to impress observers outside Ulster that it was acting impartially towards both the British loyalist and the Irish republican community . |
| 24 | Penning-Rowsell ( 1981 ) has provided an excellent review of the literature during this period , and has concluded that it saw a sustained attempt to devise techniques for the quantification of the scenic quality or value of landscapes . |
| 25 | The green currents drifted densely round it , so that it seemed a floating shadow . |
| 26 | This road had a greater significance in past centuries when it was the regular route to Skye , the way taken by Dr Johnson and Boswell in their tour of exploration ; a glance at the map shows that it followed a direct line from Shiel Bridge to Broadford across the Kylerhea ferry . |
| 27 | We could say , for instance , of le table ronde that it lacked a canonical trait of noun phrases in French , namely , concord in respect of gender . |
| 28 | Birdie Mac in the sweet shop told people that it took a great amount of faith these days to realise that God was fair-minded . |
| 29 | The Chinese also knew another archaic type of water-clock , a floating bowl with a hole in its base that was adjusted so that it took a specific time to sink . |
| 30 | How ironic , Antonietta 's mother remarked , that it took a young lady from a foreign country to educate them about one of their own artists ! |