Example sentences of "[that] it [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the fact that it eventually arrived in Germany was largely thanks to two German MPs , Ursula Seiler-Albring and Ina Albowitz . |
| 2 | An analysis of news originating anywhere away from the line-of-rail showed that it frequently came from such a tour , which shows what difficulty the news media had in getting rural news . |
| 3 | Cairns-Smith 's view of the DNA/protein machinery is that it probably came into existence relatively recently , perhaps as recently as three billion years ago . |
| 4 | There were so many cracks in it now that it barely held at all . |
| 5 | He then laid the tape across the diameter so that it exactly stretched from one side of the circle to the other . |
| 6 | I was in complete agreement with the pathologist 's view … that death resulting from status asthmaticus is death due to ‘ natural causes ; ’ and since there was nothing to suggest , in my opinion ( then and now ) , that the death was ‘ violent or unnatural , ’ or that it otherwise fell within the provisions of section 19(4) of the Act [ of 1988 ] , I was satisfied , in all the circumstances , that an inquest was unnecessary . |
| 7 | In the 1960's the date was changed to a Sunday to make it easier for people , but there was such an outcry that it soon reverted to the traditional Friday . |
| 8 | She 's got lots of curly brown hair with a little heart-shaped face in the middle , and her smile was so big that it nearly disappeared into the curls at each side . |
| 9 | Another supplier was South Africa whose huge Armscor factory in Johannesburg had supplied Iran with all the 120-mm guns that it fruitlessly fired across the desert in this never-ending conflict , and much else besides . |
| 10 | Dicey argued , not only that belief in the inherent excellence of federalism was a ‘ delusion ’ , but that it also ran against the grain of English history : |
| 11 | As a detectorist I now know that it also led to the loss of Civil War coins , militaria and other relics in the vicinities of sieges . |
| 12 | The only thing is that this text gives no reason to suppose that it also applied in cognitio . |
| 13 | Feeling certain that her imagination was playing tricks on her , Fabia , who knew that Ven was still in Prague , saw that it just had to be that Lubor owned an exactly identical pair of shoes . |
| 14 | Now , she could see that it even looked like Clive . |
| 15 | I began to feel myself being pulled further and further under the water , I screamed and swore but nobody seemed to hear or believe me and then my head went under and all I remember is a feeling of despair as I squeezed the tree trunk only to find that it simply crumbled in my hands . |
| 16 | One of the critics of the Touche Ross report , Professor Arthur Midwinter , of the department of politics at Strathclyde University , said last night that it now looked as if the scope for savings would be narrowed to the point where it had to be asked whether it was worthwhile proceeding with the reforms . |
| 17 | Paisley about faced and led the parade around the block so that it now came upon Fisherwick Place from the west . |
| 18 | However , he had returned all but three of the tourists ' passports to the safe-keeping of the Manager at The Randolph — the latter just a fraction irked that it now appeared to be his own responsibility to return these passports to whatever location the departed tourists happened to find themselves in . |
| 19 | Moreover , the industry is beginning to lose the industrial image that it once had of a strike-torn and unreliable supplier . |
| 20 | The other officers drifted away , and Charles following into the office was relieved to see that it hardly differed from those he had known . |
| 21 | It was obviously old , but so corroded that it almost fell to pieces in my hand . |
| 22 | THE SO-CALLED disease-of-the-month club is currently mustering legislative support for an objective that it almost reached in the last session of congress : creation of a separate headquarters for arthritis research at the National Institutes of Health ( NIH ) . |
| 23 | Through the first course , clear soup so strong that it almost jellied in an empty soup plate , he talked to Aunt Tossie while she supped up her soup delightedly and gave him gardening secrets for his mother . |
| 24 | She scuttled over to the far side of the room and had managed to read quite a lot of the letter before Julius came charging after her , taking the paper back from her with such force that it almost ripped in half . |
| 25 | In view of Nehru 's repeated rejections of the idea of any further association with Britain , this was a notable achievement , and there is no doubt that Mountbatten felt that it amply compensated for his acquiescence in partition . |
| 26 | E. L. Garbett , who published a detailed analysis of all the block plans in The Builder , categorized this scheme as one of the ‘ Obviously Non-competing Block Plans ’ as he felt that it radically departed from the conditions , but neither the judges nor the assessors found it faulty . |
| 27 | Not that it seriously occurred to either of us that anyone might think we had murdered Dennis . |
| 28 | The court ruled that there was sufficient evidence for a sixth charge , of complicity in the execution of seven Jewish hostages in 1944 , but that this was not a crime against humanity since it was not part of a " methodical extermination plan " , and that it therefore fell under a 20-year statute of limitations for the prosecution of " ordinary " war crimes . |
| 29 | It was a grandiose theme so radical and ridiculous that it naturally appealed to many intelligence officers living in their secret world of fantasies who saw it as a convenient excuse for all their previous problems and disasters . |
| 30 | This is no guesswork ; we know from the records that it often happened like this . |