Example sentences of "[vb pp] that it [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 If a British multinational invests in plant abroad , it is often argued that it weakens British industry because the resources could have been used to invest in new production in the UK .
2 Marxism has sometimes been regarded as a positivist approach since it can be argued that it sees human behaviour as a reaction to the stimulus of the economic infrastructure .
3 We have already seen that it rejects any notion that God is changed .
4 A child under 10 incurs no criminal liability for its acts ; a child over 9 , but under 14 , incurs no such liability , unless it is shown that it had sufficient capacity to know that its act was wrong .
5 The BBC has always maintained that it needs more spectrum for each service to be able to provide more relay stations in remote areas .
6 Gassendi had suggested that it shows improper pride for a person who has feet to take him where he wants to go to ‘ yearn to fly like the birds ’ .
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