Example sentences of "[that] it [vb -s] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From a strictly biological point of view , this work is notable enough in that it establishes a new category of bacterial metabolism . |
| 2 | The importance of the concession theory is that it establishes a theoretical framework sympathetic to state intervention ; the company is a creature of the state , existing to promote the public welfare , and as such the state has the right to interfere in its internal affairs and need not confine itself to external , general-law regulation . |
| 3 | ‘ The catering industry is unique in the challenges it offers young people and every effort must be made to ensure that it plays a central role in careers advice , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Whatever the structure , it will be increasingly important for the institution to take a strategic view of its information requirements and the supporting technological structure , as well as for the library to ensure that it plays a leading role in any new arrangement . |
| 5 | Is my hon. Friend aware that the rural sub-post office is at the heart of the rural community and that it plays an essential role in west Norfolk ? |
| 6 | I do not deny that it plays an important part , but the key to our strength is our industrial might . |
| 7 | I am sure , however , that it plays an important role . ’ |
| 8 | Then they graft a bud of a dwarf variety onto it , so that it produces a short trunk . |
| 9 | What research does is to reformulate the familiar so that it assumes a new significance . |
| 10 | It can be argued that community care still remains essentially sexist in that it assumes a large labour force of low-paid women to staff the formal sector . |
| 11 | The supplier of a new fuel , emerging as a competitor to coal in power stations , has refuted claims that it constitutes a new threat to the environment [ see ED51 ] . |
| 12 | A rejection of an ideal or principle is involved only if , when considering the relation of a man to his acts , his principle or ideal is regarded as absolute in the sense that it constitutes an infallible guide to human conduct , or if it is conceived of as a maxim in the Kantian sense and provides the reason a man might have for thinking it worthwhile for him to act morally . |
| 13 | I recognize that it represents a major change in policy to even consider the idea of recruiting the unemployed , but I understand the C E C for looking for referral and we will be happy with that this year . |
| 14 | Equally contentious is its inspirational source , and experts have suggested that it represents a stylized version of such diverse objects as a pine cone , a cypress tree , a leaf , a foetus , a male sperm and the Zoroastrian flame . |
| 15 | It is more likely , however , that it represents a short period of dry climate when there were frequent brush fires . |
| 16 | One unit was composed of many more buildings than the others and it is suggested that it represents a social difference with specialist activities taking place there . |
| 17 | If an ECR is made that is surprising to the clinicians working in a health authority , questions should be asked to ensure that it represents a fair use of resources . |
| 18 | Indeed , its strength is that it casts a caustic eye over the club scene , dealing with familiar situations with enough self-deprecation and sarcasm to stem any pretension . |
| 19 | Are we to conclude both that Papinian wrote this text and that it enunciates a general rule ? |
| 20 | The County Court is particularly useful in that it operates a small claims procedure . |
| 21 | We shall think that it defies a physical law if we are naive enough to treat it simply as a structureless lump of matter with a certain mass and wind resistance . |
| 22 | The disadvantage of product departmentation is that it creates a new form of management and therefore increases the overhead costs and managerial complexity of the organisation . |
| 23 | Limiting , in that it conceals a covert gender specificity which operates to justify women 's continued exclusion — whether from public life or philosophy . |
| 24 | I fully accept that it requires a good school to achieve good examination results , especially in an inner-city area rather than in a well-favoured suburb . |
| 25 | The consummation of that desire , and the admittance of ‘ erotic sensations ’ on the part of the heroine represents such a break with the romance genre that it requires a new form , the development of a sub-genre . |
| 26 | However , William Matteuzzi 's Almaviva is so weak that it requires a considerable stretch of the imagination to picture her preferring the young Count to the lecherous old Dr Bartolo ; and although the late Giuseppe Patane conducts the score with obvious affection , he has little flare for dramatic pacing . |
| 27 | You may have put off beginning lace knitting because you know that it requires an extra carriage and one carriage is enough for you to master as a beginner . |
| 28 | 638 is unsatisfactory in that it involves a legal fiction . |
| 29 | Adoption should never be suggested as the next option after treatment failure , it should be stressed that it involves a different type of parenting to biological parenthood , and adoptive parents should be advised to contact an organisation such as Parent to Parent Information on Adoption or British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering ( BAAF ) for information . |
| 30 | And in a third sense , literature is thought by many structuralists to have a special relationship to language , in that it involves a unique awareness of the nature of language itself . |