Example sentences of "that it [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the present case the argument was at one stage canvassed that requesting the receipt with the consequent obtaining of fingerprints , should be regarded separately from the main issue , that it amounted to a separate trick within a trick . |
| 2 | However , the Divisional Court held that it amounted to a common law contempt in that the Sun had , in spite of its editor 's protestations to the contrary , intended to interfere with the administration of justice . |
| 3 | A door at the far end was a little ajar , showing that it led to a white-tiled wash-room . |
| 4 | She took a path across the land at the side of the house and found that it led to a small wood which girdled the top of the hill on which the house was built . |
| 5 | As he neared , he could see that it belonged to a slight female form encased in dark garments , its hair entirely concealed by a white cap . |
| 6 | Thierry Millerand , Sotheby 's head of French furniture , remarks on the extreme rarity of the Louis XVI ormolu-mounted and painted satinwood and mahogany commode ( est. $1.2–1.6 million ) that is the top lot of the Ortiz-Patiño offering of French furniture : ‘ The commode is one of the very few surviving examples of French eighteenth-century painted and veneered furniture ’ and adds , ‘ We are certain that it was executed by Joseph Baumhauer and that it belonged to a great collector , Nicolas Beaujon , in the eighteenth century ’ . |
| 7 | He shook his head , his hair catching the light so that it gleamed with a blue fire . |
| 8 | It was the same at the funeral , they were all so quiet , the four men who brought in the coffin wore thick soft-soled shoes so as not to make a noise , nothing must interrupt so that it seemed like a silent film unreeling to the sound of psalms . |
| 9 | D. B. MacDonald has speculated on the difficult question of the origin of this view in Islam and has suggested that it arose from a Muslim heresy ‘ in that dark but intense period of theological and intellectual development which stretched from the death of Muhammad for at least two and a half centuries ’ . |
| 10 | The angular resolution of the observations was inadequate to show that the source was definitely located at the nucleus , but the strength and variability of the line suggested that it arose from a compact source . |
| 11 | Evan loved to tell you that it began with a minor domestic row . |
| 12 | Whatever lies Buddie chose to tell about it , she and Frankie would tell everyone the truth : that it came in a big parcel from across the sea in America . |
| 13 | And an achene is a small , single-seeded fruit that does not open , which you might mistake for a nut unless you know that it came from a single carpel . ) |
| 14 | He shakes his head and I get a shiver , remembering just that gesture of his , repeated and repeated so that it became like a nervous tic after a while , back in Strathspeld , after Clare 's funeral in ‘ 89 ; a gesture of disbelief , refusal , non-acceptance . |
| 15 | On the credit side , the local base of the Poor Law meant that it operated in a face-to-face world where people and their problems were known . |
| 16 | This transformation represented a consistent outgrowth of existing Whig or Tory principles , but the fact that it occurred to a greater or lesser extent with different individuals helps explain why such a broad spectrum of opinion existed within the two parties . |
| 17 | ‘ The location of the offence can be described in evidence by any witness of the incident to show that it occurred in a public or a private place . |
| 18 | Barlaston 's problem was that it sat astride a geological fault ( i.e. the junction of two different types of substrata ) . |
| 19 | For the regime , the fact that it presided over a cowed , debilitated populace enhanced its ability to remain in power . |
| 20 | In biology , Richard Owen — who had led the conservative assault on Lamarckism in the 1830s — now accepted evolution , but insisted that it worked by a preordained process of ‘ derivation ’ . |
| 21 | This camp was so strong that it remained as a major fortress for the Garonne region for centuries to follow . |
| 22 | When the moon came up , a full moon that illuminated the wet stony surface of the Waste so that it shone like a polished shield , they were able to go more quickly amongst the dappled and striped shadows of the trees . |
| 23 | Giray publicly attributed his resignation to personal differences with Prime Minister Yildirim Akbulut , but sources within the ruling Motherland Party claimed that it stemmed from a factional rift concerning the organization of delegate elections for the party congress due in January 1991 . |
| 24 | The plaster work had been restored and gilded so that it glittered against a dazzling white ceiling and against walls hung with crimson wallpaper . |
| 25 | Whilst there are undoubted cultural factors acting on the latency phenomenon , as Freud himself recognized , he nevertheless maintained that it rested on a biological , innate foundation . |
| 26 | At Bilen I had often asked what happened to the Awash , curious to find out why this large river never reached the sea , and I had been told that it ended in a great lake at the foot of a mighty mountain called Goumarri in Aussa , where apparently there were many lakes , great forests and some cultivation . |
| 27 | He alleged that the statute in question was invalid in that it conflicted with a fundamental principle of natural law , the right of free speech . |