Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] that it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the ultimate paradox of this highly academic school of fiction that it defies all the usual rules of academic scrupulosity , as if fiction were a breaking-out , a holiday from cares . |
| 2 | I mean by this not merely that it can be represented mathematically , but that , such is its concern with the quantitative aspects of reality that it consigns all the qualitative content in our conception of the world to the realm of conscious experience . |
| 3 | Obviously if one does not start from this premise , then the point about the wider range of jobs is no longer relevant ; the belief that degrees are taken in order to get jobs is so much part of the physical science students ' taken-for-granted ideas about education that it remains implicit rather than explicit . |
| 4 | Hewlett-Packard Co accompanied news that it had made $261m net profit for its fiscal first quarter ( a decline of 21% before a big accounting charge last time ) with news that it cut 1,700 jobs worldwide during the period . |
| 5 | I would emphasize first , here speaking as one who has in the past given evidence on behalf of the Government , that the value of the scrutiny process is in part that it forces those with more direct power to consider their positions and their arguments carefully and to defend them in the face of public questioning by a Committee whose members may have long experience of the subject-matter involved . |
| 6 | Do you feel at this point in time that it 's all been worth it ? |
| 7 | These are so ponderous and unwieldy and so vulnerable to obstruction that it seems remarkable that major decisions are ever made outside of crisis situations . |