Example sentences of "that it [vb -s] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Attempting to copy a decorative technique can confirm or disprove that it produces the same appearance and microstructure observed on the original item . |
| 2 | The title Chair is useful in that it separates the formal role from the person occupying it . ) |
| 3 | Conventionalism is a conception — an interpretation — of legal practice and tradition ; its fate depends on our ability to see in our practice conventions of the kind that it considers the exclusive grounds of law . |
| 4 | Failure to do so would confirm the fear of those who say that the Government is so hell-bent on pursuing ideology that it ignores the pressing needs of our industrial community in the build-up to 1992 . |
| 5 | Anderson 's long turn , therefore , amounts to an extreme example of what Brown and Yule describe as 'speaking on a topic " , rather than 'speaking topically " ( Brown and Yule 1983 : 84 ) , in that it ignores the previous speaker 's utterance in order to develop a new topic . |
| 6 | This is particularly the case as the IMF has been open to criticism that it ignores the social impact of its prescriptions , which create hardship and the potential for popular unrest as its free-market measures begin to bite . |
| 7 | We believe that it represents the best way forward , not just for this country but for Europe . |
| 8 | The external schema is the subset of the database which is relevant to the particular user , and though it may be a summarised and a very restricted subset , the user may think that it represents the whole view , because it is the whole view as far as the user is concerned . |
| 9 | It is exactly this assumption , however , that shows the extent to which Western society is indistinguishable from all other cultures , for each , according to Lévi-Strauss , has always assumed that it represents the full meaning and significance of human society : |
| 10 | However , many commentators believe the consultation process has focused too heavily on passenger , mainly tourist , traffic and that it underestimates the potential growth in freight traffic using the Tunnel . |
| 11 | In a kind of skipping movement he shifts his weight to the forward , leading right leg , scooping the left foot in front of the right knee and jumping off with the right leg so that it passes the left foot again . |
| 12 | However , s 382B is significant in that it allows the sole member to conduct members ' business informally without notice or minutes . |
| 13 | A further advantage of this method is that it allows the phonetic location of an incipient change to be identified rather precisely , and particular variants to be associated with particular groups of speakers : ‘ The main difference between the boys and the girls in the use of ( r ) is that the girls are almost always rhotic and most frequently use [ ? ] , while the boys are less frequently rhotic and tend to use [ ? ] more frequently than the girls ’ ( Romaine 1978a : 150 ) . |
| 14 | Second , it stresses the importance of the immediate context of the poem over the distinction between ‘ metaphoric ’ and ‘ proper ’ , in that it analyses the pre-referential dynamic of the metaphoric process . |
| 15 | It also includes tools which allow the user to examine a Document Type Definition structure graphically , without detailed knowledge of SMGL syntax — in short , the company claims that it combines the cumbersome power of SMGL with the simplicity more commonly associated with a WYSIWYG word processor . |
| 16 | He fails to spot that the core element of consent is action in the belief that it changes the normative situation , and that the justification of the binding force of valid consents is the desirability of enabling people purposefully to change the normative situation in certain circumstances . |
| 17 | The curious nature of the Bar would matter less were it not for the fact that it supplies the vast majority of judges . |
| 18 | In addition , recent calculations of the total plume heat flux show that it matches the expected heat flux from the Earth 's core . |
| 19 | Suffice it to conclude that there is overwhelming evidence that the external information delivered to those who might use it as an aid to their strategic decision making will tend actually to be used to the extent that it matches the detailed task being undertaken and its context . |
| 20 | Black women 's sexuality , in particular , is often viewed as so excessive that it breaks the sublimated bonds of the healthy nuclear family and excludes black women from the category of true women . |
| 21 | The matter was first drawn to our attention as far back as 1974 when the nuclear industry inspectorate 's chief inspector said this about the consequences of developing reprocessing in the United Kingdom : ’ The price for Britain of building lucrative business world-wide in nuclear fuel services could be that it becomes the dumping place for the world 's nuclear waste . ’ |
| 22 | No doubt it is open to the objection that it presupposes the very point in issue , namely the law which is to be applied , but such a solution seems just as sensible in this context as the rule that the law governing the validity of a contract is determined by the law which would govern the contract if one assumed it to be valid . |
| 23 | If there is a single function relating arousal and memory it seems likely that it takes the inverted-U shape which is often suggested to describe the relationship between task performance and memory , with memory impairments occurring at very low or very high levels of arousal . |
| 24 | However , the best reason for making a will is that it takes the practical burden from the shoulders of those you leave behind . |
| 25 | The advantage of the notional syllabus is that it takes the communicative facts of language into account from the beginning without losing sight of grammatical and situational factors . |
| 26 | But this does not mean that it takes the conservative stance of necessarily accepting existing definitions of crime . |
| 27 | Medoc believes that a child exists somewhere in secrecy , and that it possesses the ancient wolfblood . ’ |
| 28 | The significance of the geoid for the operation of geomorphic processes is that it defines the ultimate base level for denudation ; any change in the geoid would therefore cause consequential changes in base levels . |
| 29 | Apart from the fact that it avoids the above dilemmas , by claiming only the narrowest scope for semantics , such a theory recommends itself to the pragmaticist for the following reasons . |
| 30 | This is self-consciously an escapist activity , its main value being that it avoids the careful budgeting and penny-counting which shopping itself entails . |