Example sentences of "that it [vb past] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs. Jones did not understand that it had that effect , notwithstanding that the creditor 's solicitor went through the mortgage with her and explained it to her before she signed . |
| 2 | Again and again in the responses to our 1989 survey of all heads , those in Phase 3 schools commented negatively on their PNP staffing : that it had little impact ; that it even exacerbated their previous staffing problems ; that it was too little too late ; that the LEA did not understand the problems which their schools were trying to tackle . |
| 3 | Gina 's friends told him that this was a ‘ personal canvas ’ and that it had more integrity than conventional beautified portraiture . |
| 4 | Such was the novelty of this circuit that it provoked much debate in the technical press as to its operation . |
| 5 | Images of Nazism and the war appear so often on the screen that it took some effort to realise that these were real people inside those costumes ; that the peaked cap and leather boots were n't on hire from the wardrobe department . |
| 6 | They would have married sooner but had to wait for her divorce ; Pamela Chrimes told me that it took some time to obtain the evidence of adultery which was then necessary . |
| 7 | The responsibility had lain so heavily that it took some time to readjust . |
| 8 | Frequently the results were so error-prone that it took more effort to correct the translation than it actually did to manually translate the text . |
| 9 | Rather , the fact that it made any headway at all bears witness to the degree to which wide sections of the British public became alarmed by the apparent drift of Chamberlain 's foreign policy . |
| 10 | Not that it made any difference to the dead . |
| 11 | The Philips Report was so concerned about the increasing proportion of elderly people in the population that it thought some rise in the minimum pension-age inevitable . |
| 12 | The benefit of the system was that it demanded that society intervened for those who were under great pressure and could not take the stress . |
| 13 | He appeared to shrug off the news but there is no question that it interjected some kind of identity crisis into his life . |
| 14 | Its advantage was that it worked , in that it gave some hope of understanding why chemical compounds behave as they do ; and it did open the way to symbolizing chemical reactions . |
| 15 | " Actual " seems to mean " more than trivial " though Taylor v Granville [ 1978 ] Crim LR 482 said that it covered any harm , however slight . |
| 16 | In a way this was not such a radically different view from Mannheim 's because the sociology of knowledge was sociologism in the sense that it held that truth was only ‘ true ‘ for ’ certain groups of men ’ ( Grunwald 1970 : 238 ) . |
| 17 | In it he said that the Scottish financial sector did nothing to help the country 's economy , that it benefited only a selected minority , and that it put little back into Scotland . |
| 18 | There was public and media speculation that the real purpose of the ANC 's letter was to rally its supporters in the townships , and to fend off criticism that it attached more importance to pressing on with constitutional negotiations with the government than to defending its own people . |
| 19 | He eventually concludes that it involved another acquisition — this time the American firm of Keebler in 1974 . |
| 20 | He was joined by Peter Sheppard a few years later when it became apparent that so much information was potentially available from flight recorders that it needed another man to help interpret all the data . |
| 21 | The Labour party said that it wanted some mechanism other than discounts ; that it would deal with pensioners with what it called a single pensioner premium . |
| 22 | In fact he did n't even seem to feel that it required any show of gratitude . |