Example sentences of "[noun] that it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | It was only in the tenth and eleventh centuries that it became normal or common for giant churches to be built . |
2 | However , the fact that the ‘ soft left ’ has lost even the illusion that it runs Labour ( it lost the reality years ago ) opens up the possibility of realignment within the party . |
3 | There was so much snow that it seemed impossible that this was not the natural surface of the earth . |
4 | Offerings of food are placed before the figure and so it assumes a role almost equal to that of a human , and it is in this light that it becomes understandable why the sanctum of Indian temples is usually taboo to all but the priests who attend the icon and perform the ceremonial prayers . |
5 | Indeed , it was one of the great merits of manufacturing to the early eighteenth-century observer Daniel Defoe that it brought increased employment and greater prosperity to a district compared with those which remained wholly dependent on agriculture . |
6 | These are so ponderous and unwieldy and so vulnerable to obstruction that it seems remarkable that major decisions are ever made outside of crisis situations . |
7 | Remarkably , the first sighting of Dr Johnson 's ‘ Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel ’ was in The New Republic in March 1989 ; by which time such a bedrock of well-meaning patriotism had been wedged under the case that it proved difficult , if not impossible , to shift . |
8 | ‘ It was n't until late in the coup activities that it became clear that the coup plotters did , in fact , have him , ’ Mr Cheney said . |
9 | In many cases , this loads down an essay with so many notes that it becomes difficult to read . |
10 | In fact it was already a quality of Britten 's music before Grimes that it said new things with material which , on closer inspection , often turned out to be surprisingly familiar and straightforward . |
11 | Goebbels 's rhetoric that ‘ the German people has never looked up to its Führer so full of belief as in the days and hours that it became aware of the entire burden of this struggle for our life ’ , and that far from being discouraged ‘ it stood all the more firmly and unerringly behind his great aims ’ , sounded even emptier than usual . |
12 | He always used to speak so bitterly about his experiences as a monk that it seemed bizarre to think of him working alongside them at Hurstdown . |
13 | To verify or disprove that therapeutic vaccines can induce an anti-HIV immune response of such a kind that it has clinical , positive consequences ; and |
14 | In such circumstances he needs all the help that it makes economic sense to provide . |
15 | There were abortive attempts at a settlement by the American Secretary of State , General Alexander Haig , and discussions over a Peruvian peace plan which would bypass the British contention that it possessed sole sovereignty over the Falklands . |
16 | Siemens has always modelled its mainframe business so closely on that if IBM that it seems inevitable that the growing antipathy towards IBM 's mainframes would rub off on Siemens customers even without the prospect of something approaching depression in Germany : the coincidence of the two strongly implies that once the company finally and painfully gets the ravaged Nixdorf side of the house straight , it will have to repeat the process all over again on the Siemens side . |
17 | It was only when no parking places were to be found anywhere near the hall that it became clear that this was not normal . |
18 | By 1800 there was a widespread argument in the medical and moralistic texts that it caused physical illness , and features such as acne , epilepsy and premature ejaculation . |
19 | ( In Example 90 , the triads are so frequently of the augmented type that it seems probable that the harmony was composed first and the horizontal outline of each voice delineated only afterwards . |
20 | America 's close association with Israel led to expectations that it enjoyed indirect control over the behaviour of the latter . |
21 | With case study material print has an important role but there is always the danger that it goes astray or just does n't get read . |
22 | Superfly Curtis Mayfield 's superlative score makes superfluous blaxploitation pic that it accompanied redundant . |
23 | Secondly , even if the applicant has not sought the alternative remedy , judicial review may still be allowed if the applicant alleges malice on the part of the decision-maker ; or if the court thinks that the applicant 's interest in the action is of such importance that it deserves judicial protection : an example would be personal liberty . |
24 | One morning the young man was seized with a fit , in Dr. Prior 's presence , of ‘ such a frightful nature that it required strong nerves to witness same in those who are used to such sights ’ . |
25 | In vain did her mother insist that the material was expensive , and that anyone , looking at it , would know that it was expensive , for Clara knew in her heart of hearts that it looked cheap . |
26 | Indeed , the pineal of a New Zealand reptile known as the tuatara is pigmented and so close to the surface that it looks similar to a real eye . |
27 | From the analysis above , it would be reasonable to recommend the use of open matching specific grants for each individual service that it wanted expanded . |
28 | On July 24 the Djibouti government rejected suggestions by Ahmed Ali that it sought territorial expansion at the expense of Somaliland . |
29 | Obviously if one does not start from this premise , then the point about the wider range of jobs is no longer relevant ; the belief that degrees are taken in order to get jobs is so much part of the physical science students ' taken-for-granted ideas about education that it remains implicit rather than explicit . |
30 | Vietnam informed the UK that it required adequate Western financial assistance for resettlement . |