Example sentences of "[noun pl] that it [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a pause in which you could have heard a pin drop — if you could have heard anything over the machine noise which had so invaded their senses that it had the quality of silence . |
| 2 | The government fears that it wrecks the bill , that b R with an unfair advantage over its competitors , could keep lines like this in its clutches . |
| 3 | While it has made no formal application to offer video-on-demand to customers — the official line is that it is merely looking at the technology 's potential — it is already clear that it faces a tough task convincing regulatory bodies that it has the right to do so . |
| 4 | Government has stressed at several points that it seeks the development of local district services first , with asylums to close only when the latter services can cope with the patient workload . |
| 5 | This led some people to maintain that he had derived the idea of civil disobedience from Thoreau , a fact which Gandhi himself denied.a In due course he substituted the phrase ‘ civil resistance ’ for ‘ civil disobedience ’ on the grounds that it conveyed the notion of non-violence better , but he continued to regard civil disobedience as a branch of satyāgraha . |
| 6 | She argues against the individual approach on the grounds that it retains the segregation of pupils with learning difficulties which support teaching was intended to diminish . |
| 7 | Despite the universal belief in France that the Channel Tunnel is a project with major public sector implications , there was some opposition to the use of the Grand Chantier procedure from both local and regional authorities on the grounds that it challenged the spirit of the 1982 decentralisation laws . |
| 8 | The change provoked an extended strike on the part of the largely Russian speaking blue-collar labour force , and the Supreme Soviet Presidium in Moscow declared the legislation unconstitutional on the grounds that it violated the principle of equal electoral rights ( some 80,000 , it was estimated , would be deprived of the franchise under the new regulations ) . |
| 9 | Mr. Philipson also submitted that the notice was defective in form , on the grounds that it specified the documents by class and not individually , and that it contained certain other matter which was alleged to be ambiguous , but which I shall not quote , so as not to imperil anonymity . |
| 10 | The Yugoslav Collective State Presidency described the EC decision as " a gross violation of the principles of the UN Charter " , on the grounds that it changed the borders of the state of Yugoslavia . |