Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [noun] [to-vb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | And now , despite the fact that he 'd held her in his arms , it needed little imagination to guess that he did n't quite trust her . |
| 2 | I can not believe it took two weeks to discover that three of our Olympic athletes had taken drugs . |
| 3 | It took little time to decide that her new mama was just like the doll , with her big blue eyes , and her made up face and blonde hair . |
| 4 | It took several years to acknowledge that all this higher searching was based on my father 's money . |
| 5 | Such was the official secrecy , or confusion , that it took several weeks to confirm that no RCM boys were among the casualties . |
| 6 | Images of Nazism and the war appear so often on the screen that it took some effort to realise that these were real people inside those costumes ; that the peaked cap and leather boots were n't on hire from the wardrobe department . |
| 7 | I knew what I had to do but it took some courage to switch that light on , I can tell you . |
| 8 | Once he had got the idea of killing her ( and at first this fantasy did not seem very different from the reveries in which he wept by her open grave , comforted by young , fashionably dressed women ) it took some time to appreciate that this scenario was of quite a different type from the others . |
| 9 | A child under 10 incurs no criminal liability for its acts ; a child over 9 , but under 14 , incurs no such liability , unless it is shown that it had sufficient capacity to know that its act was wrong . |
| 10 | Even so , the campaign was not entirely counter-productive , as it compelled senior management to recognize that the long history of conflictual , low-trust industrial relations necessitated a gradual , processual approach to modifying company culture rather than structural reorganization alone . |