Example sentences of "it [vb infin] that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She drank automatically when It was over , noticed only when her glass was empty and did n't let it stay that way long .
2 Let it stay that way . ’
3 Does it , does it act that question , does it act in the modern way and if it does how much does it act in the modern way .
4 Pond 's can help it feel that way .
5 The existence of successful black sportsmen in Britain is not the recent phenomenon it is often considered to be , though the upsurge in the post-war years makes it appear that way .
6 I love the songs they write for me and I try to make it look that way in the style in which I deliver it , ’ she added modestly .
7 Did this modernism , in Jürgen Habermas 's terms , deepen and extend the rationalist Enlightenment project , or did it undermine that project ?
8 Does it follow that Citizen Kane is seeking the BS5750 business accreditation for playing and performances ?
9 ‘ I 'd think fifteen grand was a good reason to call out the dogs , or does n't it work that way ? ’
10 I mean how long did it take that washer a week , if that
11 Okay , that 's the question is why , why does it have that structure ?
12 Why — why — why ? she had asked herself over and over again , why did it end that way ?
13 Never again did it match that apex of prosperity that it reached during the brief nine years that Shah Jehan ruled from the Red Fort .
14 yes , well , er I follow that , but I 'm sorry I put it rather badly Mr forgive me , part of your defence against the claim by er relates to erm these agreements , you must say that these agreements erm because they are of the standard form are anti competitive and therefore they or part of them are void , erm building on that presumably your defence says or employs er that because erm , you know there void , I du n no perhaps you can tell me this erm , all , all the er all parts of the void , all the power of the agent , the agreements with regard to premium trust funds and the like , er are also unenforceable as between er the erm name and his er members agent , erm and in consequence of that you say , as I understand it , er that that is , all that cause be lost which you can neither set up as a defence to claim under the central bi-law or at least as a set up or counterclaim , I just wanted to explore this aspect of it , erm , as to the consequences of your plea , does it mean that clause nine is put on one side wholly or to an extent in the latter case to what extent ?
15 Does it mean that county and district have got to sign up for it ?
16 Nor does it mean that failure to achieve total abstinence from all potentially mood-altering substances and behaviours means that one can not achieve a considerable measure of recovery .
17 ‘ Did n't it seem that way to you ? ’
18 The frequency of such bids has made it seem that stockmarket valuations are arbitrary , that bidders are stealing money from somebody else rather than creating wealth , and that American and British managers spend too much time shuffling assets and too little investing ( that is , building factories ) for the future .
19 European movements of national liberation were the most important forms of popular rebellion during their lifetime , but the intellectual atmosphere of mid-nineteenth-century London as well as their own convictions made it seem that nationalism was a temporary phase , and that internationalism was the norm , or at least the force that would grow most powerfully in the future .
20 They were sitting on the terrace outside her curved stables-cottage , watching the sun go down over Capability Brown 's vista , uninterrupted because of the ha-ha ( however did it get that name ? ) — and they were talking , over glasses of wine , about poetry .
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