Example sentences of "[verb] [that] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Informal observations suggest that it first becomes popular as a peer group language at the age of eleven or twelve . |
| 2 | You may toil on a project enthusiastically for many years , only to find that it all comes to naught because of a political change of direction . |
| 3 | 252 — 5 ) to which of course the prostitute can indeed testify that it these things appear incompatible — is n't misogyny a kind of hatred , and licentiousness a kind of love , albeit a debased one ? — in reality they go hand in hand . |
| 4 | The swelling letters pages were occupied with responses to Michael Eaves , a correspondent who had suggested axing the ‘ What 's Happening ’ section , record reviews , and ads from the paper — which would have neatly killed it some years before its time — led by a contribution from one of It 's founders , David Mairowitz , ‘ who broke his b***s [ asterisks his ] seeing that It 1–10 got put together and printed . ’ |
| 5 | The more I put in then , logically , the more determined I 'll be to see that it all goes through smoothly . |
| 6 | We 're off er well York this funny thing I got to see that it all goes through for my dad . |
| 7 | Well er the first one is that er er the Mr says that it those people with two mile away from this er tip er will not be affected . |
| 8 | And that that shows that it that is true of working . |
| 9 | We can now see that it all began in 1979 . |
| 10 | In a place like that it all depends how you get on with the screws : some lasses did take hell . |
| 11 | Though no eye-witness survived , there is reason to believe that it all began with some Bavarian soldiers brewing up coffee — in a delightfully careless South German way — on upturned cordite cases , using explosive scooped out of hand grenades as fuel ! |
| 12 | Looking at the evidence leads many scientists to believe that God made the world , whereas other scientists look at the same evidence and believe that it all happened by chance and that the world , the solar system , you and me are all just the result of a lucky string of enormous flukes ! |
| 13 | Cognos notes that it first entered the Japanese market in 1985 and initially sold its products there through distributors for Hewlett-Packard Co , Digital Equipment Corp and Data General Corp hardware . |
| 14 | Because they had been told that research shows that the teaching of grammar restricts the imagination , imposing a strait-jacket of conventions , they did not realise that it all depends on what kind of grammar is taught and in what contexts . |
| 15 | History relates that it all began when Hahnemann was translating a treatise on materia medica written by the Scottish physician Dr William Cullen , a section of which dealt with the use of cinchona bark ( otherwise known as Peruvian bark ) from which we obtain quinine to treat malaria . |
| 16 | And people thought that it all had to be changed . |
| 17 | I think that it best meets that very important criterion . |
| 18 | So when I 've finished the first draft , I go back to the beginning to check that it all hangs together . |
| 19 | I like to check that it all works you know ? |
| 20 | That 's about it for the plot , except to say that it all ends happily with the birth of a new egalitarian mobster alliance . |
| 21 | It really hurt that it all got back to sex , ’ says Barbara . |
| 22 | ‘ But you must agree that it all looks very strange . ’ |