Example sentences of "[noun pl] [that] it [vb past] [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 | ‘ 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | America 's close association with Israel led to expectations that it enjoyed indirect control over the behaviour of the latter . |
6 | Cords Plc manufactures a style of corduroy trousers that it sold last year at £18 each pair . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | He was joined by Peter Sheppard a few years later when it became apparent that so much information was potentially available from flight recorders that it needed another man to help interpret all the data . |
9 | Vienna , Virginia-based Legent Corp warns that it expects to report net profit of about $18.4m or $0.52 per share for the second quarter ended Aprch 31 , compared with the $0.44 before charges that it reported last year ; turnover will be about flat with the $102.5m a year ago : the news caused a bloodbath in the Legent share price , which slumped 16% , $6.125 , to land up at $33.25 . |
10 | The water came down so fast from the cold heights that it remained icy even in the thick heat of the valley . |
11 | For reasons to be explained , the original legislation was found to be defective , and was amended in 1976 ( and placed into the legislative context of the Public Order Act 1936 ) , but even after amendment it still gave rise to complaints that it fell short of the aspirations of its promoters in its effects . |
12 | Had the Conservatives won the election by a whisker , which at one time seemed likely , they would probably have plumped for a Labour Speaker ( on the grounds that it took one vote off the Opposition ) . |
13 | The creation of the autonomous region had been opposed by the Moro National Liberation Front ( MNFL ) , the largest of the separatist guerrilla organizations , on the grounds that it made insufficient concessions to Moslem autonomy and failed to meet the terms of the 1976 Tripoli Accord [ see p. 28440 ] . |
14 | It was the first contact between the LDP and the North Korean government , and marked a significant shift in policy by the latter communist regime , which had hitherto rejected overtures from the Japanese government on the grounds that it had diplomatic relations with South Korea . |
15 | While criticized by many on the grounds that it had few ‘ teeth ’ and represented a compromise between the DoE and all other departments ( notably those of Agriculture and of Transport ) , it was none the less a major achievement . |
16 | Approval of the treaty had at first been opposed by West Germany 's Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) on the grounds that it offered inadequate protection for East German industry , and that environmental guarantees were insufficient . |
17 | Although the Accord was approved by most of the provinces by the end of 1988 , Manitoba and New Brunswick had withheld ratification on the grounds that it offered insufficient protection to Quebec 's English-speaking minority . |
18 | Bush rejected the campaign finance bill , the first such measure to have been approved by Congress in more than a decade of partisan dispute over the issue , on the grounds that it offered public subsidies to House and Senate candidates and because it did not eliminate donations from political action committees ( PACs ) . |
19 | The parliamentary commission charged in January 1989 with the inquiry into the Lucona affair presented its report on June 28 ( which the FPÖ refused to sign on the grounds that it treated those concerned too leniently ) . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | The bill was approved by the House of Representatives — where the LDP had an overall majority — on Dec. 3 , even though the DSP voted against it on the grounds that it provided insufficient legislative control over the dispatch of troops . |