Example sentences of "[verb] that it [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do not know how this activated state is subsequently maintained throughout the healing process , although the final overrun and pile-up suggest that it takes some time to switch off . |
| 2 | There are , for instance , several conflicting claims concerning the function of the Japanese suffix -wa : some suggest that it is an obligatory marker of topic ( this claim is implicit in Li , 1976 : 465 ) ; others suggest that it marks given information ( see 5.1.2. below for an explanation of given vs new information ) . |
| 3 | It was claimed that it made rural communities vulnerable to guerrilla reprisals . |
| 4 | Staff at the Commission have claimed that it has insufficient funds to do this . |
| 5 | She opened a small round leather box to find that it contained tiny gold collar studs and several pairs of cuff links . |
| 6 | Okapi was certainly easy to use and most people found that it needed minimal learning and relearning . |
| 7 | ‘ I had always thought that its grip on me was purely personal , ’ wrote Amanda , ‘ — I loved it simply because it was my home — but then I found that it caught other people in its web too . ’ |
| 8 | But if an incident has occurred involving violence or which leads to a soured atmosphere at work , management may consider that it has little option but to take action . |
| 9 | The provision of specialised consultants for accident units also came under criticism and the committee reported that it took seven years , until 1992 , for the number of A&E consultants in Scotland to increase from 11 to 23 , even though the most recent review concluded that 34 were needed . |
| 10 | He eventually concludes that it involved another acquisition — this time the American firm of Keebler in 1974 . |
| 11 | When , in 1884 , G. T. Clark [ q.v. ] published his Mediaeval Military Architecture in England , she realized that it contained false assumptions about the origins of the various mounds or mottes scattered over the British Isles . |
| 12 | Edinburgh District Council have been consulted and officials from their Planning Department have looked at the route and agreed that it has good potential . |
| 13 | Edinburgh District Council have been consulted and officials from their Planning Department have looked at the route and agreed that it has good potential . |
| 14 | In order to recast the problem , however , we need a deeper understanding of the divide between the two approaches , and must enquire why many individualists believe their view to be a decisive refutation of holism , while holists deny that it makes any headway at all . |
| 15 | They listened to the Black story and admitted that it had important implications . |
| 16 | While he agrees that it involves more risk , it does not deter him . |
| 17 | To those who argued that the policy was deluded , its sponsors could answer that it had good aims in view ; indeed , the more glaring the disappointment , the more glowing the colours in which those aims were painted . |
| 18 | We must ensure that it makes proper progress through the House , receives proper scrutiny and is on the statute book before any rude interruptions . |
| 19 | It judged the centre , which carries out work on AIDS , infectious disease and transplant research , to be a world-class laboratory and says that it offers unique facilities to researchers in Europe such as a rhesus colony for which the microbiological status is known and typed for major histocompatibility complex , essential for transplantation studies and infectious disease research . |
| 20 | The British government says that it finances nine projects , including a recently opened satellite station in Nepal , and that it sees no necessity for a separate fund . |
| 21 | Although PRO wo n't confirm that it paid some $600,000 for the suite ( UX No 406 ) , the decision to plump for 88open 's testing technology was thought to be purely financial : ‘ we could n't afford to spend that kind of money developing our own alternative , so we bought in . ’ |
| 22 | KPMG warrants and undertakes that it has full power and authority under the Financial Services Act 1986 and otherwise to make the Offer on behalf of Client . |
| 23 | Santa Monica , California-based Retix Inc warns that it expects net profit and turnover to be below analysts ' estimates for its first quarter ending April 3 : it expects operating results to be hurt by delays in releasing product enhancements for its RouterXchange 7000 series of routers to volume production , including support for IBM 's Token Ring network environment ; sales may be down up to 15% , and it may only break even or even worse . |
| 24 | Irvine , California-based AST Research Inc warns that it expects third quarter after-tax margins to be in the range of 3% to 4% as it follows pricing strategies intended to lead to increased unit sales while it reduces operating expenses as a percentage of sales — its strategy for pricing and market share expansion is expected to hurt its near-term earnings it said , noting that the new Premmia line , launched in the UK yesterday , is priced 10% to 20% below rival models ; it also said it was evaluating its pricing , especially in Europe . |
| 25 | If a British multinational invests in plant abroad , it is often argued that it weakens British industry because the resources could have been used to invest in new production in the UK . |
| 26 | Marxism has sometimes been regarded as a positivist approach since it can be argued that it sees human behaviour as a reaction to the stimulus of the economic infrastructure . |
| 27 | We have already seen that it rejects any notion that God is changed . |
| 28 | Legacies can also be sought more easily if the organisation can show that it has charitable status . |
| 29 | Ensure that it gives full details of prices , cancellation rights , a timetable for the work , any Guarantee which will apply to the work or materials and for what period of time . |
| 30 | Irradiation helps preserve the shelf-life of perishable food by killing off bacteria , but in the face of protests by consumer groups who allege that it reduces nutritional value , a number of supermarket chains have undertaken not to stock irradiated food . |