Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] that it " in BNC.
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| 1 | We knew for definite that it was only a two bedroomed flat and that is one of the reasons we went in at the time we did , hoping that everyb e every person in that flat would be asleep . |
| 2 | Oh , after all that it did n't work ! |
| 3 | But spiritualism remained beyond the pale , like phrenology and unlike orthodox religion , despite the claims of some that it was really the same as primitive Christianity . |
| 4 | There is so much evidence Of this that it hardly needs restatement here , nor does its corollary that the present tropical belt is atypically narrow . |
| 5 | It was because of this that it became so important for a buyer to establish that the seller 's representation amounted to a contractual term so that full damages would then be available . |
| 6 | Or you could go in and say , ‘ Listen , , can I suggest two or three aspects of this that it 's worth covering ? |
| 7 | We have done some work with your offices on that , and whilst on most of your activities are n't happy with er the scale of such that it does cause me a problem , there is one particular area that we are in discussion with the Chief Executive , and your offices relating to doing work for other bodies to and the contract vehicle hire service , and er , that 's something which we will and no doubt will be brought us in the very near future . |
| 8 | It seems that whatever Saxon settlement there had been was so devastated during the Norman advance of 1070 that it was still uninhabited at the time of the survey in 1086 . |
| 9 | So , after lunching at one of the excellent local inns , we contented ourselves with making a wide sweep South to the River Dove and back up to the Derwent , — stopping at Castleton which , with its show caves and fluorspar ( Blue John stone ) mines should n't be missed and at Eyam which was so badly ravaged by the pestilence of 1665/6 that it is still known as The Plague Village . |
| 10 | So , after lunching at one of the excellent local inns , we contented ourselves with making a wide sweep South to the River Dove and back up to the Derwent , — stopping at Castleton which , with its show caves and fluorspar ( Blue John stone ) mines should n't be missed and at Eyam which was so badly ravaged by the pestilence of 1665/6 that it is still known as The Plague Village . |
| 11 | He took a lot of convincing that it was , indeed , the same fish . |
| 12 | The man took a lot of convincing that it would not be well unless it was stitched ; and when John said that he would pay , there was a further argument . |
| 13 | Moreover , MDC 's relatively modest housing programme for the initial area , its mixture of public and private provision and the fact that it has not displaced existing residents prevented housing becoming the political minefield for MDC that it was for LDDC . |
| 14 | It was for reasons such as these that it was decided wherever possible to rely on published research in the field . |
| 15 | Experience may help you take some of these into account but if you went for a fixed fee you may have to pitch it at such a level to allow for these that it 's perhaps twice what it might be and you could lose the client . |
| 16 | Such an innocent river , for all that it knew a secret , for all that one of its stones had put a man out of sight of the sunset ! |
| 17 | If such a working model of haemoglobin could be made , it would prove once and for all that it is the iron and not the porphyrin that 's ultimately responsible for the properties of haemoglobin . |
| 18 | For all that it remains an object which can not move itself or save itself from destruction . |
| 19 | J. R. R. Tolkien ( 1892–1973 ) , a Catholic by upbringing , wrote in praise of the remembered virtues of the British Tommy in the trenches during the First World War , and the enormous and highly improbable success of The Lord of the Rings ( 1954–5 ) , for all that it began as a cult in the United States rather than at home , struck a chord that was ultimately insular , tribal and boldly British . |
| 20 | For all that it was a truly wonderful job . ’ |
| 21 | For all that it sold for $46,200 ( £30,800 ) ( est. $30–50,000 ) . |
| 22 | Without it , psychoanalytic theory could not account for all that it had been observed human beings could do to themselves and to one another . |
| 23 | First , wind velocity is measured at a given observation point and refers solely to that point , for all that it may be convenient to show it on a chart as an arrow apparently extending for a long distance . |
| 24 | ‘ We do n't know for sure that it 'll strike , ’ said Duvall . |
| 25 | The winter wind skeetered viciously along the dirty pavement and the grey air was so thick with cold that it felt like frosted glass against the raw flesh of my face . |
| 26 | Charles put up all the arguments scepticism could muster , but somehow ended up agreeing with Jacqui that it was at least worth further investigation . |
| 27 | Kermode thinks that this process , with all that it implies , is a fact of life , which has to be lived with , whatever we think of it . |
| 28 | No , I ca n't see a weekend in Paris improving the situation … with all that it would obviously lead to . |
| 29 | But it would have been very different to make him a coach this winter , with all that it entails . ’ |
| 30 | Trade with Russia might survive if the Muscovy Company went out of business , but it was not easy to imagine that trade with Hudson Bay ( with all that it did for London furriers and re-exporters ) could continue if the Company lost its trading rights , and the Royal African Company was believed to be necessary for the slave trade until the 1690s , and the East India Company kept its position in trade with India for over a century after that . |