Example sentences of "[vb -s] that it [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Schulz considers a number of explanations for the phenomenon she describes , and concludes that it arises from men 's prejudice against women and their fear of women 's ‘ natural ’ power or biological superiority . |
| 2 | A relation is said to be transitive if the fact that it holds between two elements A and B , and also between B and some third element C , guarantees that it holds between A and C. The relation ’ — is longer than — ’ is thus transitive , because if A is longer than B , and B is longer than C , we can be sure that A is longer than C. In the case of an intransitive relation , on the other hand , the fact that it held between A and B , and between B and C , would entail that it did not hold between A and C. For instance , if A were the father of B , and B the father of C , then A could not be the father of C ; the relation ’ — father of — ’ is thus intransitive . |
| 3 | For instance then , the very last point being made up in that rose thing , is , it says that it protects against sicknesses and evils . |
| 4 | Although called a village , an examination of its plan on the ground shows that it consists in fact of three or four farmsteads , almost identical in their units , among their garden plots . |
| 5 | The other side concedes that it deals in reputations , gossip , intuition and the ambitions of private families . |
| 6 | IBM plans to use ObjectStore in more than 50 object projects that it has under way . |
| 7 | A CASH-HIT council is to repay to war widows additional relief on rents and poll tax charges that it withheld in error . |
| 8 | The distribution of climate-sensitive rocks indicates that there was a humid belt at the palaeolatitudes of southern Africa , and the palynofloral distribution indicates that it lay between palaeolatitudes 45° and 60°S ( ref. 5 ) . |
| 9 | That means that it knows about things like sections and chapters , tables of contents , indexes and anchored text and graphics . |
| 10 | WG claims that it overpaid for Alkar by almost £2m , and that it subsequently poured £11.2m into the company in an attempt to rescue it . |