Example sentences of "that [subord] it [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Given the rugged nature of the area , I was shocked , indeed horrified , to find that although it contained several hundred of Prince Charlie 's caves , it only boasted three Munros . |
2 | But a report issued last year by the National Radiological Protection Board concluded that although it encouraged further research , there was no reason to link power cables with cancer . |
3 | Commentators noted that although it stopped short of declaring immediate secession from the Soviet Union , with this declaration Armenia technically went further towards independence than any other republic save Lithuania . |
4 | My one great experience with the medical world had been a wartime wound , a shattered knee and leg , that although it incurred many months in hospital , to a young man of twenty-two , seemed to be totally external . |
5 | It is not even certain that the Diet ( parliament ) will reform the electoral system this summer , or that if it did much would change as a result . |
6 | In response to further letters in A Quarterly , the Society justified its stance by saying that while it accepted some correspondents ' views that certain butlers of excellent quality were to be found in the houses of businessmen , ‘ the assumption had to be that the houses of true ladies and gentlemen would not refrain long from acquiring the services of any such persons ’ . |
7 | But Washington said that while it had prior knowledge of the plot hatched by three disaffected officers , it did not actively back it . |
8 | Company brochures on Courtaulds pie , the leading private corporation for job losses with 23,200 at Table 5.7 ( above ) , showed that while it had 300 textile and other plants spread across the UK in 1976 , by 1981 this stock fell by 20 per cent in ‘ assisted areas ’ but only 5 per cent in non-assisted areas . |