Example sentences of "[adv] that it [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Figures from the Central Statistical Office suggest that some of the changes implemented by Conservative governments helped to reverse the trend in redistribution of income from the rich , so that it became redistribution to the rich . |
| 2 | Her hair had been flattened by the storm so that it made Trent think of a squashed astrakan hat . |
| 3 | Mr Brown argued for changes to the tax system so that it assisted people who undertook training , and for new incentives for companies which upgraded staff skills . |
| 4 | So much so that it inspired Sophie to give several children 's classes in Norwich . |
| 5 | Back at the top I helped Duncan carry the police barrier across the road so that it blocked traffic coming up . |
| 6 | It has been his job to knock on the head any mutterings about this summer 's circus , notably those emanating from the Partito Sardo D'Azione , the Sardinian nationalist party , which proclaims sarcastically that it thought Sardinia 's days as a penal colony were long past . |
| 7 | ‘ I read somewhere that it cost £30,000 to do the season nowadays . |
| 8 | The reason for this is not so much that it was beyond some people 's capacity to do imposition and so on ; but rather that it cost employers money to train people to do such tasks . |
| 9 | Steve laughed so unnaturally that it caused Ruth to widen her eyes at him with surprise . |
| 10 | Inveterate trafficker in traffic systems Peek Plc told its annual meeting yesterday that it saw signs of a trading upturn in March : ‘ Although trading conditions in the first two months of the current year continued to be difficult , we have seen signs of improvement in March — there is currently a significant amount of enquiry and bidding activity and it is expected that this will translate into firm orders , ’ chairman Ken Maud said . |
| 11 | From the mid-1640s , the celebration of Christmas was forbidden , Puritans arguing both that the festival was pagan in origin and also that it gave licence to ‘ carnal and sensual delights ’ . |
| 12 | In January 1949 the British cabinet ruled that co-operation with Europe should not be taken so far that it compromised Britain 's ability to survive as an independent state . |
| 13 | In a separate development , the Foreign Ministry told the Soviet embassy here that it wanted talks as soon as possible on the withdrawal of the 75,000 Red Army troops based in the country . |
| 14 | The second , and methodological , argument against historicism was that it was not ‘ rational ’ , or at least that it fostered irrationalism and mysticism ( Popper 1966 : 216 ) . |
| 15 | He seemed familiar , so familiar indeed that it took time to sink in . |
| 16 | He spoke so casually that it took Bernice five seconds to realize the implications of what he had said and another five to fear it . |
| 17 | It was all done so genteelly that it set McAllister 's teeth on edge . |