Example sentences of "that [prep] [adj] it " in BNC.

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1 This public celebration is still usually followed by the private honeymoon , despite the fact that for many it will not be the first holiday they have had together .
2 Insofar as there was any factual basis for people 's answers , it seems likely that for many it was MLR or bank base rate , which were between 12½ and 14 per cent at the time of the survey , and which are of course frequently mentioned in the press and on TV .
3 The National Bank said that for 1990 it had to adhere to a strict monetary policy aimed at keeping the hard currency account deficit under $550,000,000 , that of the state budget under 10,000 million forints and inflation under 19 per cent — conditions imposed by the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) when it approved an agreement to pave the way for additional foreign loans to maintain the country 's creditworthiness .
4 We are customers of a massive industry trying to make money and I understand that for some it 's just staying in business that counts .
5 But remember that above all it is going to be a place where people are meant to enjoy their food .
6 But he proposes that the strategy for the building should recognise that above all it is the home for the Lord Mayor , the council and civic functions .
7 The quote from Hammond & Waterton suggests that in 1890 it was thought that a barrister umpire could preside over a valuation : to restate the proposition in modern terms , a lawyer can act as an expert .
8 The limited ‘ defence ’ of mistake about the girl 's age , available to young men under 24 , was explained above , and the reason for creating such a limited ‘ defence ’ is that in general it has been held that the crime does not require any fault element as regards the girl 's age .
9 The third rule is that in general it is better to tax than to borrow .
10 The result , which we obtain there , is that in general it will be rational for agents to infer from an own price higher than initially expected that there have been both positive aggregate and positive relative demand shocks .
11 The controversy over ordinary and honours degree pathways was to smoulder between CASS and CST , and the CASS pressure for the ending of the policy was countered consistently by CST with the argument that in science and technology it was appropriate to have two types of course , and that in general it considered students with lower abilities and attainments were more suitably educated ‘ in courses specially designed to make a different intellectual demand ’ .
12 The Third Programme 's elitist appeal ( as it would now be called ) to a minority ‘ whose tastes , education and mental habits enable them to take pleasure in close and responsive listening to broadcasts of artistic and intellectual distinction ’ ( Annan , 1977 , p. 12 ) was so limited that in 1957 it was confined to weekday evenings and weekends from 2.30 onwards .
13 Does my hon. Friend agree that it is worth pointing out to young children that in 1950 it took a man on average industrial wages a week to earn enough to buy his Christmas turkey and that it now takes a person in a similar position just 90 minutes to do so ?
14 The Home Office Research Unit found that in 1973 it was 25 per cent. , as compared with 81 per cent .
15 The French economy was so weak that in 1953 it had to renege on an OEEC agreement of two years earlier .
16 Its great expectations were such that in 1975 it produced what it called a ‘ Reference Programme ’ of future development based on a dramatic growth in electricity demand .
17 Apart from its royal members , the number of Knights of the Garter is limited to twenty-four , and this restriction , coupled with the fact that since 1946 it has been once more in the personal gift of the monarch , makes its membership peculiarly exclusive .
18 I have to admit that at first it was n't completely right .
19 ‘ hat I have to say ’ , I went on , ‘ is so important and so … vital that at first it may be difficult to believe .
20 Bill Webster of Hilton said that at first it might be voluntary for guests to use their towels twice .
21 It appears that at most it means falling in the same paragraph of Sched 1 .
22 Robert Norster , national team manager and most definitely a product of the new enlightenment , ventures to hope that at last it is changing .
23 Although China wanted the naval base retained , Chief Secretary Sir David Ford announced that by 1992 it would be moved from its central site to make way for land reclamation .
24 It 's not the best time to launch a new car but we 're optimistic that by 1992 it 'll be alright .
25 Most of the members of the IRB know that even in 1992 the rejection of South Africa as the host country would be a King Canute job and that by 1995 it would look just plain silly .
26 Containing such things as ‘ Liquidi perle ’ , ‘ Tirsi morir volea ’ , and ‘ Dolorosi martir ’ , it is no wonder that by 1588 it had been reprinted four times and that in the same year five of the madrigals — with ‘ Io partirò ’ from the Second Book — were published in London with English words .
27 The success of BEFIEX can be judged by the fact that by 1985 it covered 40 per cent of all manufactures , with a significant increase of the net trade generated ( Fritsch and Franco , 1988 : p. 116 ) .
28 The population of Manchester rose by an astonishing 45 per cent in the 1820s so that by 1831 it had reached 142,000 .
29 All we need do here is to remark that by 1914 it had carried the control of violence and unreason in national and international life further than ever before , and brought Europeans to a previously unmatched level of material and mental achievement .
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