Example sentences of "that it [verb] [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overall , the review may be judged to have been effective in that it produced valid and reliable evidence of how things were in the Art department , on the basis of which prescriptions for institutional changes might be made , and it provided the necessary motivation for those changes of the most direct importance to the pupils to be acted upon . |
| 2 | Her iron hand was even harder on the pastry , and affected its colour as well so that it looked dark and oppressed . |
| 3 | Cos it selects anything that it touches right and cos it 's inside the board outline it thinks it 's touching the board outline |
| 4 | People who say this , like me , always use the word ‘ kids ’ in the belief that it sounds open and democratic and leaps generation gaps at a bound . |
| 5 | It is almost as if the modern mind , unable to tolerate cultural restraints , and feeling that discontent in civilization which Freud described long ago , had become so intolerant of the demands of communal existence and civilized behaviour that it saw each and every representative of those restraints as an incitement to revolt rather in the same way that an enraged revolutionary mob , thirsting for the blood of its oppressors , might fall on some unfortunate bystander merely because he happened to bear a resemblance to the head of the secret police . |
| 6 | So all she could report was that it seemed dark and cruiser-shaped . |
| 7 | The small grass lawn at the front was overgrown , the wooden verandah running from the porch along the front of the house had several posts missing , and the catch on the outer porch door was broken , so that it swung open and shut with a groan and a bang in the ever freshening wind . |
| 8 | Fortunately most pet cats , if they do encounter a toad , quickly learn that it tastes bad and , after one preliminary nip , rapidly drop the squirming amphibian and never make the same mistake again . |
| 9 | A property tax is essentially unfair unless so many qualifications are built into it that it becomes complicated and expensive to administer . |
| 10 | This chapter has tried to suggest that the poor image project work seems to have as a teaching method is not a necessary one , and that there are strategies which teachers and schools can employ to ensure that it becomes purposeful and systematic . |
| 11 | Correctly named Limnanthes douglasii , the seed is readily available and , when conditions suit , it seeds itself so readily that it becomes self-perpetuating and can even become invasive . |
| 12 | Another , and perhaps the worst aspect is that the wind has the habit of blowing debris into the net so that it becomes entangled and this too limits its catching ability . |
| 13 | Society 's need for this is so strong , he says , that it promotes continual and dramatic celebration of deviant acts ( originally via public punishments , later via the mass media ) , and uses inefficient control agencies such as prison in order to produce more , rather than less , crime . |
| 14 | The shade has a double skin so that it remains cool and the light is well diffused , thus reducing glare and shadows . |
| 15 | MIPS Computer Systems Inc is desperate to be seen to be non-aligned once it is part of Silicon Graphics Inc , and to that end , it has rallied 12 of the computer industry Great and the Good to help guide the future directions of the MIPS microprocessor architecture and help ensure that it remains competitive and open . |
| 16 | Simon Peter has no doubt whatever that it remains imminent and will occur in the course of his own lifetime . |
| 17 | We do n't pressurise the horse so that it gets more and more upset : remember , it will remember ! |
| 18 | And as if they knew it they sent another flare up into the sky , so that it glowed bright and cheerful as a street lamp above his path of retreat . |
| 19 | Keeping your fingers crossed and plunging on is one way of dealing with tricky situations which may gain a reputation for the school that it has firm and strong management but it can have costs in the loss of a number of unhappy families . |
| 20 | It believes that it knows best and what is good for us and for our children . |
| 21 | As a result of this acceptance that some of the facts were incorrect , the board of Lautro , on 26 March 1991 , reconsidered the question whether intervention remained justified , but decided that it remained necessary and desirable in the interests of investors . |
| 22 | I think all of us wish this epidemic would go away , and that it would n't touch us and that it were only small numbers , but the news today clearly shows that it affects each and every one of us . |
| 23 | The suggestion here is that an utterance is an interpretation of another to the extent that it shares logical and contextual implications with it . |