Example sentences of "[noun sg] that it [vb -s] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It is certainly a polygon , and our historians , experts and researchers have come to the conclusion that it has 24 sides and is 100ft in diameter . ’
2 They have called on the Northern Regional Health Authority to issue a categorical denial that it has any plans to merge 15 health care districts into six super districts .
3 Some managers are convinced that PRP will improve performance and raise income , but there 's hardly any evidence that it produces any improvements .
4 Greenpeace anti-nuclear campaigner Bridget Woodman said : ‘ Nuclear Electric wants to operate Sizewell B in the full knowledge that it has sub-standard components and an increased potential for a disastrous accident . ’
5 It need not , therefore , be related to any act performed in the belief that it has normative consequences .
6 The decision is logical , in the sense that it places local authorities in the same position as other builders .
7 However , it should be remembered that this figure will be an underestimate in the sense that it excludes occasional users — ‘ chippers ’ and ‘ dabblers ’ .
8 Easier , in the sense that it bans Germanic tricks to limit the transfer of ownership ; but more difficult by requiring an offer to be made to all shareholders at the same price , once a firm has accumulated 30% of the shares .
9 IBM Corp has made no secret that it believes super-fast communications will be essential to the medium-term success of machines like the RS/6000 , and the company has turned to one of the pioneers , San Jose , California-based Ultra Network Technologies Inc .
10 For him , even choices which are clearly dictated by subject matter are part of style : it is part of the style of a particular cookery book that it contains words like butter , flour , boil and bake ; and it is part of the style of Animal Farm that it contains many occurrences of pigs , farm , and Napoleon .
11 Illustrate the bank 's profit-maximising balance sheet on the assumption that it grants new advances .
12 That argument has to rest on the principle that it makes other owners of Utterly Dependables feel better if everyone has one !
13 Moreover , it is socially important for the way that it demystifies such manoeuvres .
14 The localized system of medico-pedagogical influence on a child , in so far as it is differentiated in an institution for social education , ought to prevail to the extent that it is in accordance with the natural needs of the child and to the extent that it opens creative prospects for the development of the given structure — biological , social , and economic .
15 He argued that education for understanding can only be regarded as successful to the extent that it makes behavioural outcomes unpredictable .
16 ‘ It is a proven fact that it strengthens growing teeth . ’
17 With my responsibility for small firms , the House will not be surprised that I for one would robustly defend the exemption level and the fact that it helps small firms in the industry .
18 But if X + Y is an organic unity then the fact that it has 100 degrees of value may be because it has 90 degrees of value as a whole while Y has none .
19 But even if the Church takes this controversial step , there remains the fact that it has few structures for evaluating its chief resource .
20 The fact that it has well-defined aims and a specific medium of operation also augurs well for its successful continuation .
21 After an insect has emerged from the egg the completed head shows few indications of a segmented origin apart from the fact that it carries paired appendages .
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