Example sentences of "that it [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | There is a striking analogy here with crystal growth , except that it happens in two dimensions , not three . |
| 3 | Until comparatively recently there was a general belief or tacit agreement within the community that the later years of life were a time of " all passion spent " — that sex stopped or should stop with the menopause in women and that it continued into later years only in old men who were awarded the epithet " dirty " . |
| 4 | Craig ran his hand through his hair so that it sprung into small curls giving him a rakish appearance . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Care is thus needed with any numerical procedure , on the one hand , that its grid size is small enough to resolve , for example , a boundary layer ( Sections 8.3 , 11.2–11.4 , 12.4 ) and , on the other hand , that it extends into all regions of importance , such as a wake ( Section 11.5 ) , upstream wake ( Section 15.2 ) or Taylor column ( Section 16.4 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We had nothing at all to live on ; but one day I received a sum of money that we managed to divide up so that it lasted for many weeks , just so much a day . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Thus if a close approximation to such a transformer features in the bridge circuit of figure 7.10(a) with its secondary winding tapped so that it divides into two portions having turns N 1 and N 2 , the ratio of the potential differences across these secondary portions will be near enough . |
| 14 | Somehow or other your miond analyzes the light that it receives from these bodies and tells you about them . |
| 15 | We noted in Chapter 4 that it is hard to predict which sentences will have very many overlapping interpretations , that it depends on many factors including the phonemes in the utterance , the content of the lexicon , and so on . |
| 16 | The swan became so attached to Sam that it stayed for twelve years . |
| 17 | Although the network approach does answer some of the problems of the hierarchical approach , particularly in that it deals with many-to-many relationships , it is more complex . |
| 18 | On July 12 , 1990 , the European Court of Justice ordered the German government to suspend a road levy of up to DM9,000 which it had imposed since April on heavy trucks from other countries , on the grounds that it discriminated against other countries . |
| 19 | By 1820 , it was owned and worked by Robert Wight , who continued to manufacture cloth there , the mill becoming known as Wights Mill , a name that it retained for many years . |
| 20 | Sir , the pond in D thirty nine has been shown to be a breeding place for the Great Crested Newt , but it is also known that it migrates to other ponds , several others , but does not necessarily breed there , but chooses at Skelton . |
| 21 | The only good thing about it is that it lasts for six months , then immunity is acquired . ’ |
| 22 | The humble toad , so slow and cumbersome that it looks like easy pickings for any predatory mammal or bird , has survived for millions of years because it has managed to evolve a particularly virulent poison called bufotalin . |
| 23 | Normally , these bubbles ( or vesicles ) are only a few millimetres across and quite thinly scattered , but sometimes , if the lava has been particularly gas rich , the rock is so honeycombed with large bubbles that it looks like some kinds of Swiss cheese ; more holes than solid . |
| 24 | Remember that it rhymes in two places : " " A tuba , " I said , " or some treacle , Or a toggle to sew on your mac , Or a tray or a ticket , a tree or a thicket , A thistle , a taper , a tack . " |
| 25 | If you want the earth to move for you , it 's best that it starts with small tremors and works its way slowly up the Richter . |
| 26 | The good news is that it works for all ages . |
| 27 | Place the key in the lock and check that it works from both sides . |
| 28 | I assume that it contains among other things the letters I have sent to him . |
| 29 | A relation is said to be transitive if the fact that it holds between two elements A and B , and also between B and some third element C , guarantees that it holds between A and C. The relation ’ — is longer than — ’ is thus transitive , because if A is longer than B , and B is longer than C , we can be sure that A is longer than C. In the case of an intransitive relation , on the other hand , the fact that it held between A and B , and between B and C , would entail that it did not hold between A and C. For instance , if A were the father of B , and B the father of C , then A could not be the father of C ; the relation ’ — father of — ’ is thus intransitive . |
| 30 | If so , the fact that a dependence thesis is true of theoretical authorities is strong evidence to suppose that it holds for practical authorities as well . |