Example sentences of "[noun pl] that it [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So much modern merchandise is themed with bestselling books that it makes a logical extension to the stock profile . |
| 2 | Yet it was in those six countries that it enjoyed the greatest influence and where it was able to generate the most support . |
| 3 | ( iii ) So far as article 5(1) itself is concerned , he submitted that it is clearly established by Court of Justice decisions that it reflects the close links created by the contract between the parties thereto , and the need to resolve all difficulties which may arise in connection with the contract in the same court in a country which has a close connection with the case , i.e. the court in the country where the obligation in question has to be performed . |
| 4 | Is not it clear from those figures and from many others that it takes a Conservative Government to deliver the goods to NHS patients and that all the Opposition have to offer are promises which more often than not prove false ? |
| 5 | 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 ] . |
| 6 | The National Association for Staff Development ( NASD ) , for example , characterized it as ‘ a meagre preliminary to what should be an urgent discussion of a markedly neglected topic ’ , and the Regional Management Centres Association ( RMCA ) found little sympathy for the discussion paper on the grounds that it reflected a traditional approach to staff development . |
| 7 | Syria , which signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT ) in 1969 , had previously declined to conclude such an agreement on the grounds that it had no nuclear installations . |
| 8 | The Slovak Republic Prime Minister , Jan Carnogursky , had objected to this on the grounds that it ignored the separate existence of Slovakia ( as a Nazi protectorate ) from 1938 to 1945 . |
| 9 | The republics failed , however , to reach agreement on a council for railway transport ( Ukraine objecting on the grounds that it resembled the former USSR Railway Ministry ) , and also on the organization of economic links . |
| 10 | This was frequently denounced by critics of the democracy on the grounds that it introduced a pecuniary motive . |
| 11 | Louis B. Wright 's Middle-Class Culture in Elizabethan England is welcomed by C. Bowie Millican on the grounds that it confirms a healthy trend in literary research whereby antiquarian , statistical , and editorial work are made to contribute to a broader and more comprehensive " cultural synthesis " : " it is the proper evaluation of such information … that leads to perspective and reveals literature to be both a continuum and a truthful mirror of life . |
| 12 | Others have criticised such a view on the grounds that it introduces an undesirable ambiguity into the concept of existence , and have argued that propositions of this kind should not be taken at their face value but should be paraphrased in such a way as to prevent spurious names from usurping the role of subjects . |