Example sentences of "that it [vb -s] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps this a characteristic to be expected of a country where it is said that one person in every three is a civil servant and that it requires 72 government permits to open a mild bar . |
| 2 | Its greatest drawback is that it requires human beings to adapt themselves to the production process , and in most Western countries , there has been a reaction against this requirement . |
| 3 | Mr Keith cited three examples of information on the map , prepared for the association , which he disputes : that it takes four-and-a-half hours to travel from his home town of Durness , in Sutherland , to Inverness ; that from Dunvegan , on Skye , to Inverness , via Portree , takes four hours 45 minutes , and that Inverness to Dalwhinnie takes one hour 25 minutes . |
| 4 | And then someone else at Ladymont once said that it takes two men to rape you . |
| 5 | I was questioned about this in recent years when I visited the Camp during one of my lecture rounds to the ATC in the Highlands , but I only add this yarn to illustrate that it takes all kinds to make any air force station , and I am sure our childrens ' children will be told and the tale will no doubt be embroidered to suit the occasion . |
| 6 | If this book has a significant weakness , it is simply that it takes three chapters to get into its stride . |
| 7 | We do not know how this activated state is subsequently maintained throughout the healing process , although the final overrun and pile-up suggest that it takes some time to switch off . |
| 8 | Remorseful Prober is like Naive Prober , except that it takes active steps to break out of runs of alternating recrimination . |
| 9 | And the finding that it takes 400 msec to generate the electrical activity associated with the meaning of visually presented words suggests that this is one of the most complex activities our perceptual systems are asked to perform . |
| 10 | One more positive criticism of the Economic theory of regulation is that it lacks sufficient structure to make it testable . |
| 11 | The thing is that it costs 40 lira to go up now , but if he had waited just one hour more , till the 11 a.m. departure , he would have had to pay only two lira . |
| 12 | As well as distributing the new version 1.2 of Aspect , due out at the end second quarter , Goldmine claims that it has other distribution deals in the pipeline to be announced over the next few weeks . |
| 13 | Staff at the Commission have claimed that it has insufficient funds to do this . |
| 14 | They have called on the Northern Regional Health Authority to issue a categorical denial that it has any plans to merge 15 health care districts into six super districts . |
| 15 | We at Select were appalled at the severity of the court judgement against your magazine and believe that it raises serious impediments to press freedom . |
| 16 | In the light of this it seems that severance is beneficial in that it stops one party acquiring the whole property in the event of the other 's death , but the actual shares of the parties would have to await determination by the Court ( or agreement ) . |
| 17 | Easier , in the sense that it bans Germanic tricks to limit the transfer of ownership ; but more difficult by requiring an offer to be made to all shareholders at the same price , once a firm has accumulated 30% of the shares . |
| 18 | The usual reality is that it applies histrionic measures to tackle topical crime . |
| 19 | ‘ ( 1 ) An act done by a person in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute shall not be actionable in tort on the ground only — ( a ) that it induces another person to break a contract or interferes or induces any other person to interfere with its performance ; or ( b ) that it consists in his threatening that a contract ( whether one to which he is a party or not ) will be broken or its performance interfered with , or that he will induce another person to break a contract or to interfere with its performance . |
| 20 | In such circumstances he needs all the help that it makes economic sense to provide . |
| 21 | Can I ask you about er the medium range surface to air missile because er , you wo n't be surprised to learn , that er the committee 's received a number of submissions on this matter er which suggest that er er t to proceed with Eurofighter two thousand without the medium range surface to air missile er I mean to be put rather bluntly to us , that it makes little sense to proceed with the aircraft without a replacement for blood hound . |
| 22 | In fact the period seems somewhat variable , so that it makes more sense to talk of a 22-year cycle between one sunspot ‘ high ’ and , not the next , but the one after that . |
| 23 | These relations between finite coordinate distances are generally so inconvenient that it makes more sense to start calculations from the differentials which do transform linearly : . |