Example sentences of "[noun] that it [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The controversy surrounding the work of Telman Gdlyan and Nikolai Ivanov , chief corruption investigators with the USSR Procurator General 's office , came to a head on April 18 when the USSR Supreme Soviet voted to refuse a request by the Procuracy that it rescind the mandates of the two men to sit in the Congress of People 's Deputies , so that they might face criminal charges relating to coercion of suspects and witnesses . |
| 2 | Circumcision as a rite had been performed in Israel for many centuries , but it was only with the exile that it assumed the character of a covenantal sign between God and his chosen people . |
| 3 | It was offensive that a party should be so unprincipled as first to defeat the Government on a matter of fundamental constitutional importance ; and , having done so , should then take office on condition that it passed the measure . |
| 4 | In this case , exactly as one would expect , the adjective is acceptable in predicative position but only on condition that it bears the meaning it has as a non-separative . |
| 5 | A loan stock convertible into ordinary shares has the advantage that it enables the holder to retain the security of being a creditor if it wishes , while offering a share in capital growth on conversion . |
| 6 | The daily rotation of the earth on its axis had the advantage that it eliminated the need for the huge outermost sphere to revolve every twenty-four hours . |
| 7 | It has the added advantage that it accentuates the role of the cycle as a benign form of transport , one which can bestow peace and tranquillity not only on its user but also on the general urban scene . |
| 8 | And erm the effect though of holding beach material on one part of the beach is of course that it starves the area which is along the Sussex Channel coast to the east of beach material that it would formerly have received . |
| 9 | In the early 1980s when the policy of overfunding led to persistent money market shortages , the Bank 's bill mountain was criticised from the standpoint that it entailed the Bank acting essentially as a clearing bank , lending to the corporate sector ( albeit indirectly ) via its bill purchases . |
| 10 | Central policy seemed to be so prejudiced against the Ukraine that it evoked the suspicion in several foreign observers that this particular national minority was being deliberately neglected as a punishment for its hostility to Russian rule in the Civil War . |
| 11 | It is of great credit to the Committee that it describes the situation so clearly and that it points out many of the problems that have come about as a result of Government policy towards private residential care over the past few years . |
| 12 | Every choreographer must have a motive if he or she is to give proper thought , impetus and significance to the movements made by the dancers whether : they are telling a story ; describing and/or expressing the thoughts behind a theme ; or interpreting music either by expressing personal feelings about the melody and rhythm or by so framing the dance that it parallels the music and reveals its structure . |
| 13 | There was a pause in which you could have heard a pin drop — if you could have heard anything over the machine noise which had so invaded their senses that it had the quality of silence . |
| 14 | Charlton , who are meeting Greenwich Borough Council officials tomorrow night over the projected return to The Valley , are unhappy at being told recently by the council that it wants the club 's proposals to be revised dramatically to take account of environmental requirements . |
| 15 | But the discovery that it depleted the brain of certain transmitters made it a valuable tool in investigating brain mechanisms . |
| 16 | Apart from the obvious connotation that it puts the recipient under some moral obligation to purchase , it also serves as an advertising medium if the company logo is incorporated in the gift . |
| 17 | Most developed capitalist economies which operate anti-insider dealing laws have outlawed insider dealing on the basis that it jeopardises the development of fair , and orderly markets . |
| 18 | Assessment for evaluation is justified on the basis that it serves the interests of the consumers of education : pupils , parents and society . |
| 19 | That 's the part that gives you sustain and that 's the part that you do n't want to depress to the point that it touches the fret , because otherwise the fretted strings do n't have the clearance to run underneath the slide without touching it . |
| 20 | This can be productive , but there 's a danger that it prevents the children from taking any real responsibility for the drama . |
| 21 | The course follows a very similar pattern to the single honours degree in Modern and Contemporary History , with the distinction that it involves the acquisition of language skills and an extra year of study which is spent in a university in another EC state . |
| 22 | An external observer at rest who detects the flash at the moment that it reaches the roof would see it Doppler shifted to a lower frequency than observed in the source frame . |
| 23 | So fierce was the rain that it swelled the river until its banks burst and the fields were flooded . |
| 24 | The government fears that it wrecks the bill , that b R with an unfair advantage over its competitors , could keep lines like this in its clutches . |
| 25 | I was informed that British Steel would be making a decision on the day that it made the decision — I was informed in confidence some days before that it would be making a decision on that day . |
| 26 | While one would have liked to have thought that the injustice of B's situation would of itself have been enough to persuade the Court of Appeal to strain to find a way of bringing it to an end , the Convention considerations ought to convince a future court that it has the duty to do so . |
| 27 | Speaking on April 24 , ANC president Nelson Mandela said : " It is evident that what they really seek is the continued incumbency of the National Party even in the event that it loses the election . " |
| 28 | It was in the context of this merger and GM 's failure to find a partner for Bedford in the UK that it announced the ending of medium and heavy truck production in September 1986 . |
| 29 | There is evidence that it became the practice for individuals to be named after the day on which they were born and that couples were not allowed to marry if their birthdays had the same numeral . |
| 30 | Furthermore the line has several times been proposed for closure and only strenuous efforts by local politicians and the Heart of Wales Line Travellers ' Association ( HOWLTA ) have kept it open - indeed it is a minor miracle that it survived the Beeching closures . |