Example sentences of "of [noun] 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 In vain did her mother insist that the material was expensive , and that anyone , looking at it , would know that it was expensive , for Clara knew in her heart of hearts that it looked cheap .
3 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 .
4 The Basel Convention on the transfer of toxic waste , whose primary purpose was to prevent uncontrolled dumping of toxic waste in third world countries , came into force in early May , against a background of warnings that it lacks sufficient political support , and is in danger of being watered down by a series of exemptions .
5 It is only when a substance is matched with a patient according to the Law of Similars that it becomes Homoeopathic .
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