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

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1 So , I told them that it had new blades on but they wanted it really tight , and they wanted tightening up and that so yeah .
2 In May , 1991 , the Digital Information Group 's Software Industry Bulletin reported that SelecTronics expects to report a ‘ significant loss ’ for its financial year ended 31 March and that it is restructuring its business so that it manufactures handheld devices only when it has firm orders from its distribution channels .
3 Moreover , if we explore the course of English Literature , if we consider from what source its stream has sprung , by what tributaries it has been fed , and with how rich and full current it has come down to us , we shall see that it has other advantages not to be found elsewhere .
4 The government 's emphasis on cash crop production was criticized on the grounds that it favoured wealthy exporters rather than small farmers and had hindered industrial development .
5 Certainly , one of the organisational reasons for centralising the buying function in a company is that it gives senior buyers more clout .
6 The importance of this work is that it puts economic factors firmly back on the agenda as explanations of crime .
7 It is ironic that IT makes fundamental change both essential and possible , but — to repeat — we need the change anyway .
8 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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