Example sentences of "that it [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Is it really the case that ordinary mem bers of the public have a hatred of the police so virulent that it completely overbears normal reactions of shock , concern , and compassion ?
2 But whatever happens to particular processes , it remains a general condition of modern cultural technology that it both requires social forms of production and yet , within this , under specific economic conditions , imposes not only a professional but a class division of labour .
3 Its domination resides in the fact that it keeps the economy going , without which the whole society would collapse , and in the fact that it thereby imposes certain restrictions on other practices .
4 IBM reckons the 970 achieves a SPECmark rating of 100.3 , making IBM the first to produce a RISC system which scores a century on the benchmark , and that it also does 100.9 transactions per second on the Transaction Processing Performance Council 's TPC-A benchmark .
5 But as his success within the Movement , within the German State , and on the international stage grew until it knew no bounds , so the self-deception of the ‘ conviction ’ ideologist magnified to the extent that it ultimately consumed all traces of the calculating and opportunist politician , leaving in its place only a voracious appetite for destruction — and ultimately self-destruction .
6 Kenya Canners ( now renamed Delmonte Kenya ) was subjected to an Interpol investigation in 1978 , prompted by the fact that it persistently showed local losses while continuing to export 96 per cent of its output .
7 It is a tribute to how far we have come already in theoretical physics that it now takes enormous machines and a great deal of money to perform an experiment whose results we can not predict .
8 Cellnet Mobile Communications Ltd claims that it now has 100,000 subscribers for its low-use mobile service , Lifetime ; the cellular company expects to double this number over the next nine months .
9 Hewlett-Packard Co has extended its HP 9000 Series 1200 line of fault-tolerant Unix systems sourced from Sequoia Systems Inc downwards with the launch of the entry-level HP 9000 Model 1210 , claiming that it substantially outperforms fault-tolerant offerings from Tandem Computers Inc , Stratus Computer Inc and Digital Equipment Corp by as much as 100% in transaction processing work .
10 In these situations there is no hope for an end to these ‘ holy ’ conflicts unless there becomes available some completely new religion which rejects all existing ‘ gods ’ , and offers an alternative form of religion and deity with viability so well reasoned and convincing that it inexorably eliminates all others .
11 The attraction of technology transfer to SMEs is that it often involves incremental improvements to products and processes which offer a rapid return and reduced risk .
12 Arthur Marwick , for example , while agreeing that the evacuation revelations aroused a new sense of social concern ‘ among an articulate few ’ , nevertheless casts doubt upon the idea that it suddenly dispelled middle-class prejudices about there being a feckless and dirty section of the working class .
13 This proposal , based upon a Council resolution of May 1985 , was innovative in that it only defines basic requirements , leaving detailed specifications to the individual standardisation bodies .
14 Bearing in mind that it only takes 20 milligrams of this poi-son to kill a dog , and that a cat is equally susceptible , it is clear that here we have a serious threat to an incautious feline .
15 The drawback of multi-threading is that it only allows whole processes to run on individual CPUs and is unsuited for particularly large applications .
16 THE MOST remarkable thing about Graham Watkins 's Macbeth is that it only has two women .
17 The Dounreay nuclear plant , the largest nearby industrial commercial operation , has said that it only discharged 1.8 kilograms of cadmium over 10 months last year .
18 The insurance fund has since doubled its reserves through a levy on its other members , but fears that it still has insufficient funds to cover its potential obligations .
19 ‘ When we turn to Morgan 's discussion of this aspect of the gens we must admit that it brilliantly anticipates modern accounts , ’ Fortes states .
20 For example , suppose that airline pilots are paid far more than their transfer earnings , but that it always takes three pilots ( pilot equivalents ) to fly a plane .
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