Example sentences of "that it [verb] [adj] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Therefore we want to think ahead to future access to the information in the Journals , and the price is that it takes more time now .
2 If Hamer have sought to redesign this feature so that it looks better overall then I 'd suggest that they have made a mistake .
3 So powerful is that consideration , it is argued , that it lifts this case out of the ordinary Cyanamid considerations ( see American Cyanamid Co. v. Ethicon Ltd. [ 1975 ] A.C. 396 ) , in which the concern of the court is to preserve the subject matter and accept the risk that if the court should refuse the child may die before final decision , as a result of an intervening choking fit from which only ventilation could save him .
4 In the hospital , sitting up for the first time in several days , he had watched the doctor anointing an old man who would have made a superb St Jerome : ‘ a thin , long , sinewy brown wrinkled body with such very distinct and expressive joints that it makes one melancholy not to be able to have him for a model . ’
5 It is ironic that IT makes fundamental change both essential and possible , but — to repeat — we need the change anyway .
6 Another syntactic feature of topic is that it controls anaphoric reference so that ( a ) once an element is announced as topic , this element may be omitted altogether in subsequent clauses , hence the proliferation of subjectless clauses in languages such as Chinese and Japanese ( see Chapter 6 , p. 185 , for an example of Japanese subjectless clauses ) , and ( b ) an element announced as topic overrides possible coreferential links with other elements in the sentence .
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