Example sentences of "[that] it [verb] [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the Accord was approved by most of the provinces by the end of 1988 , Manitoba and New Brunswick had withheld ratification on the grounds that it offered insufficient protection to Quebec 's English-speaking minority . |
| 2 | The use of a common stack has one disadvantage ( if it is a disadvantage ) in that it forces stricter adherence to proper program structure . |
| 3 | The importance of skill theory is that it relates human performance to systems concepts and to individual differences . |
| 4 | Not that it made any difference to the dead . |
| 5 | Entitled Challenge , it ‘ will be progressive in the sense that it understands Christian faith to be of necessity a commitment to the cause of all who are oppressed , discriminated against or unjustly treated . ’ |
| 6 | The problem with such a characterisation of pluralism is that it bears little resemblance to what pluralists actually say pluralism means , and consequently it is hardly surprising that even the most cursory of empirical investigations can show such a naive version of pluralism is untenable as a description of the distribution of power in Western liberal democracies . |
| 7 | No-one could deny that it brought real benefit to Scotland , which built up one of the most advanced and successful electronics sectors in Europe . |
| 8 | Another criticism of the Leeds adjournment system was that it added further stress to socially disadvantaged people already living under stressful conditions . |
| 9 | But if I 'm moving around slightly like this and you 're having to follow with your eyes as I 'm making my presentation it brings variety to it brings that bit of variety like you said earlier that it brings some interest to it . |
| 10 | The terms should also make it clear that the committee has the power to investigate matters within its brief and that it has full access to information . |
| 11 | Kuhn 's demarcation criterion has been criticized by Popper on the grounds that it gives undue emphasis to the role of criticism in science ; by Lakatos because , among other things , it misses the importance of competition between research programmes ( or paradigms ) ; and by Feyerabend on the grounds that Kuhn 's distinction leads to the conclusion that organized crime and Oxford philosophy qualify as science . |
| 12 | Such a system is inherently inflationary as it encourages escalation of costs and there is no evidence that it gives any encouragement to the cost effective use of different procedures since the health care suppliers know that , whatever the cost , they will be reimbursed . |
| 13 | The UK government 's strategy for reducing carbon emissions has been attacked by environmentalists , who argue that it places too much reliance on voluntary action by industry and the presumed effect of market forces , and that it pays scant attention to the need for research into energy efficiency . |
| 14 | A possible response to the dismissal of contract as a ground of corporate legitimacy is that it pays insufficient attention to the moral significance of contract . |
| 15 | What constitutes the novelty of the Hellenistic age is that it gave international circulation to ideas , while strongly reducing their revolutionary impact . |
| 16 | There was public and media speculation that the real purpose of the ANC 's letter was to rally its supporters in the townships , and to fend off criticism that it attached more importance to pressing on with constitutional negotiations with the government than to defending its own people . |
| 17 | Lengthy works of great technical excellence have been written on the subject of costing , but the acid test of a well-organised system is that it provides useful information to management under each of the above headings . |
| 18 | It seems that it makes more sense to the majority of people if we tell you how much faster ( or slower ) than a common reference machine the test machine is . |