Example sentences of "[that] it [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | e.g. to generalize about the significance of an event : " The basic weakness of the Treaty ( of Versailles ) lay in the fact that it left the German people in a frame of mind not conducive to a lasting peace . |
| 2 | As I retreated , putting one foot down in front of the other on the stony path , I reflected that I was tired of this place , that it had the dry consistency of chaff . |
| 3 | FoE urged Nirex to admit that it had the wrong design in the wrong place and called on the company to abandon the scheme . |
| 4 | During the interval it was a chastened but not dispirited European team which lunched together in the solitude of the team H.Q. We will never learn what was discussed but there is no doubt that it had the desired effect . |
| 5 | Restriction analysis of the rescued plasmid revealed that it had the expected structure . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , the Budget was so unbelievably boring that it had the opposite effect . |
| 7 | The United Kingdom argued that there was nothing in the manner of its introduction , or in the fact that it affected the Anglo-Spanish vessels , that made the Act of 1988 incompatible with Community law . |
| 8 | His investigations are accompanied by a search for an india-rubber , about which he remembers only that it contained the two letters ‘ di ’ in the middle of its trade name ( hence ‘ Oe di pe ’ ) . |
| 9 | THIS ALBUM 'S predecessor , ‘ The Psychedelic Years ’ , was possibly the best compilation album ever , in the sense that it contained the best songs by the best bands in its field of reference ; in fact , it seemed to have all the good songs that came out of psychedelia ( It also had The Incredible String Band , but presumably only as a sorbet to clear the palate . |
| 10 | Attempting to copy a decorative technique can confirm or disprove that it produces the same appearance and microstructure observed on the original item . |
| 11 | The title Chair is useful in that it separates the formal role from the person occupying it . ) |
| 12 | Zarathustra interpreted the struggle between good and evil forces in ethical terms , and he believed that it pervaded the whole universe . |
| 13 | Conventionalism is a conception — an interpretation — of legal practice and tradition ; its fate depends on our ability to see in our practice conventions of the kind that it considers the exclusive grounds of law . |
| 14 | Universal , who had advanced him the $850,000 were even prepared for the fact that it challenged the American Dream and attacked American society for ‘ destroying itself ’ , told through its hero — played by Dennis — who is a Hollywood stunt man devoured by his quest for big cars , swimming pools and gorgeous girls . |
| 15 | Failure to do so would confirm the fear of those who say that the Government is so hell-bent on pursuing ideology that it ignores the pressing needs of our industrial community in the build-up to 1992 . |
| 16 | Anderson 's long turn , therefore , amounts to an extreme example of what Brown and Yule describe as 'speaking on a topic " , rather than 'speaking topically " ( Brown and Yule 1983 : 84 ) , in that it ignores the previous speaker 's utterance in order to develop a new topic . |
| 17 | This is particularly the case as the IMF has been open to criticism that it ignores the social impact of its prescriptions , which create hardship and the potential for popular unrest as its free-market measures begin to bite . |
| 18 | Outlining the aid package at a press conference on July 17 , Major said that it offered the Soviet Union : ( i ) special association with the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and World Bank [ see p. 38314 ] ; ( ii ) increased co-operation with international bodies including the IMF , the World Bank , the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( EBRD ) and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) ; ( iii ) increased technical assistance ; ( iv ) promotion of Soviet trade , particularly with eastern Europe ; ( v ) follow-up reports by the chairs of G-7 summits in 1991 and 1992 ( Major and Kohl respectively ) ; and ( vi ) follow-up visits to the Soviet Union by G-7 Finance Ministers . |
| 19 | We believe that it represents the best way forward , not just for this country but for Europe . |
| 20 | The external schema is the subset of the database which is relevant to the particular user , and though it may be a summarised and a very restricted subset , the user may think that it represents the whole view , because it is the whole view as far as the user is concerned . |
| 21 | It is exactly this assumption , however , that shows the extent to which Western society is indistinguishable from all other cultures , for each , according to Lévi-Strauss , has always assumed that it represents the full meaning and significance of human society : |
| 22 | Although Labour was defeated in the General Election of 1924 , the election which saw the publication of the ‘ Zinoviev Letter ’ with the allegation that it revealed the Communist intention to stir the masses of workers to revolution through using the Labour Party and the Anti-Soviet treaty , its vote increased by more than one million , or about 24 per cent , even though the number of Labour MPs was reduced from 191 to 151 . |
| 23 | The experience of Aden was therefore precious in that it revealed the only alternative to acquiescence or schizophrenia : the political struggle . |
| 24 | A SURPRISING aspect of the first British performance of Sofia Gubaidulina 's Violin Concerto , subtitled Offertorium , is that it provoked the odd walk-out in Birmingham Town Hall . |
| 25 | A SURPRISING aspect of the first British performance of Sofia Gubaidulina 's Violin Concerto , subtitled Offertorium , is that it provoked the odd walk-out from one or two places in Birmingham Town Hall . |
| 26 | Film was nothing in itself but what had confirmed its worthlessness was that it seemed the exclusive property of a class of showmen who were direct descendants of the old fairground showmen . |
| 27 | The proposed quota and duty system was strongly criticized by the Latin American producer countries , which claimed that it violated the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) . |
| 28 | However , many commentators believe the consultation process has focused too heavily on passenger , mainly tourist , traffic and that it underestimates the potential growth in freight traffic using the Tunnel . |
| 29 | In a kind of skipping movement he shifts his weight to the forward , leading right leg , scooping the left foot in front of the right knee and jumping off with the right leg so that it passes the left foot again . |
| 30 | Hardly a rally was over two strokes and what was more disappointing was that it followed the brilliant final at Brighton . |