Example sentences of "that it [verb] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was New Year 's Eve and the midnight sky was still bright : Punta Arenas is at 53°S , and although on a similar longitude to Halifax has been shunted , by Professor Dowd 's descendants , into the same time zone as New York — all of which means that it stays light for a great deal longer than in most cities , and we celebrated the coming of the New Year in almost broad daylight . |
| 2 | It was not until the Life Peerages Act 1958 that it became possible for a woman to be created a life peer and sit and not until the Peerage Act 1963 that hereditary peeresses in their own right were allowed to join them . |
| 3 | In fact , it was only as a consequence of this earlier work of literary , linguistic , and historical categorizing that it became possible for a sense of national and vernacular " ancestry " to challenge the cultural and educational rule of the classical languages and literatures . |
| 4 | Each workstation on the network can be set up to decide whether it will accept work being thrown at it , and tells the central manager what resources ( memory size , architecture and so forth ) that it has available for running jobs . |
| 5 | The ‘ dilemma ’ , in our present model , is that it appears rational for each individual player not to disarm , but to arm . |