Example sentences of "that it [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Training Agency frequently claims that it insists on non-discriminatory practices , but ‘ all the evidence points to widespread exclusion of Black trainees from prestigious employer based schemes … most likely to lead to full-time jobs , top-ups to the allowance and higher quality training ’ . |
| 2 | A deadly nerve poison , it was once used as an animal poison but is now banned on the grounds that it kills with extreme cruelty . |
| 3 | Only a quarter say that it led to in-service training and a fifth think that it improved staff relations and improved teaching methods . |
| 4 | Craig ran his hand through his hair so that it sprung into small curls giving him a rakish appearance . |
| 5 | The predictions are supported by evidence that male dwarfism is an evolutionary strategy in solitary , sedentary animals , that it evolves in low population densities ( high search costs ) , and that it correlates with a female-biased adult sex ratio ( reduced male competition ) . |
| 6 | She swung the paddle with such enthusiasm that it landed with mind-boggling force across his fundament , making him yelp and grab the cheeks of his tormented seat with both hands . |
| 7 | Both management and unions tend to keep a tight grip on local activity to ensure that it keeps to national agreements and to avoid the embarrassment and disruption of uncontrolled local initiatives . |
| 8 | For internal audit to carry out these responsibilities it is essential that it operates with adequate independence . |
| 9 | The winter wind skeetered viciously along the dirty pavement and the grey air was so thick with cold that it felt like frosted glass against the raw flesh of my face . |
| 10 | A cool little breeze was blowing , and she shivered as it ran playfully over her heated skin and ruffled the long strands of her silvery hair so that it spilled like spun gold down her back , tangling with the lace . |
| 11 | Moscovitch therefore suggested that the reason why the right hemisphere shows so little language ability under normal circumstances is that it suffers from inhibitory control by the left hemisphere . |
| 12 | Cunningham said his members are adamant about having input into system software and ensuring that it integrates with other operating environments such as Windows NT , Taligent and OS/2 . |
| 13 | Firstly , the feeling for the tradition is very strong in the village ; secondly , Gawthorpe is an ancient settlement — its history can be traced back to a Viking chief named Gorky and there is evidence that it existed in Roman times ; thirdly , the original custom was to bring in a new May tree each year . |
| 14 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that those dramatic figures are eloquent testimony to the fact that under Labour the number of days lost was so dramatic that it resulted in near anarchy and that , as a result of our legislation , there are now proper secret ballots and democracy in the workplace ? |
| 15 | Of the many explanations for the collapse in the ninth century after such intensive cultivation without metals for 6–16 centuries , the most plausible is that it resulted from sustained failures of maize due to a leafhopper-borne virus , maize mosaic virus , which may have originated in northern South America at roughly the same time as maize was brought to the Caribbean by the Arawak about the time of Christ . |
| 16 | It needs to be recast , so that it extends beyond academic staff to embrace the student body . |
| 17 | The family and marriage , in the particular form that it took in Victorian times , was , for the great majority of Engels 's contemporaries a sacred , eternal , and unchallengeable institution . |
| 18 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of April 25 reported that some government officials and members of the armed forces had welcomed the creation of the Forum , provided that it complied with strict government guidelines on political behaviour . |
| 19 | One of the important characteristics of those moves was the support that it represented for British liberalisation policies . |
| 20 | As Cumings has pointed out , the importance of this paper is that it foreshadowed with considerable accuracy the sequence of events over the next three years , culminating in the formal establishment of the Republic of Korea in 1948 . |
| 21 | The term ‘ gouger ’ is flexible in that it refers to known criminals as well as others who look or act as if they have a potential for crime and trouble . |
| 22 | More important was that German and Italian aid tended to arrive on request , and especially when most needed following Nationalist setbacks or preceding major pushes ; that it was channelled through Franco as Nationalist leader and not , as with Soviet aid to the Republic , through a political faction ; and that it came on easy credit terms with no political strings attached . |
| 23 | Beaverbrook said that it came from Henderson ; Balfour said that it came from Bonar Law ; Law 's biographer said that it came from Balfour ; and Crewe said that it came from Montagu and Derby . |
| 24 | The respondents tried to distinguish the former on what it is submitted is the irrelevant ground that it operated in legal systems , such as the French , in which the criteria for establishing jurisdictional competence did not always guarantee a close connection between the defendant and the forum . |
| 25 | Always pick a flower on the very day that it comes into full bloom , because the process of ageing takes place very rapidly in flowers , and pressing does not rejuvenate them , but only halts the ageing process at the moment of pressing . |
| 26 | Again very light ‘ rock ’ this time with smoother edges , and natural in the sense that it comes from Icelandic lava flows . |
| 27 | At a push boiling oil on its own will do the job , but a typical mixture has corrosive properties and is sticky so that it adheres to exposed flesh . |
| 28 | Is there not a deep self that keeps active in the subconscious , expressing in dreams the thoughts that it evades in conscious life ? |
| 29 | The Realist approach , he remarks , gets its name from precisely this point : that it deals with human nature as it is and not as it ought to be , and with historical events as they have occurred , not as they should have occurred . |
| 30 | Development at Scott Lithgow could be hampered by the fact that it lies on unimproved land outside the Inverclyde Enterprise Zone . |