Example sentences of "that it [vb -s] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 From a strictly biological point of view , this work is notable enough in that it establishes a new category of bacterial metabolism .
2 The importance of the concession theory is that it establishes a theoretical framework sympathetic to state intervention ; the company is a creature of the state , existing to promote the public welfare , and as such the state has the right to interfere in its internal affairs and need not confine itself to external , general-law regulation .
3 ‘ The catering industry is unique in the challenges it offers young people and every effort must be made to ensure that it plays a central role in careers advice , ’ he said .
4 Whatever the structure , it will be increasingly important for the institution to take a strategic view of its information requirements and the supporting technological structure , as well as for the library to ensure that it plays a leading role in any new arrangement .
5 Is my hon. Friend aware that the rural sub-post office is at the heart of the rural community and that it plays an essential role in west Norfolk ?
6 I do not deny that it plays an important part , but the key to our strength is our industrial might .
7 I am sure , however , that it plays an important role . ’
8 Then they graft a bud of a dwarf variety onto it , so that it produces a short trunk .
9 Attempting to copy a decorative technique can confirm or disprove that it produces the same appearance and microstructure observed on the original item .
10 What research does is to reformulate the familiar so that it assumes a new significance .
11 It can be argued that community care still remains essentially sexist in that it assumes a large labour force of low-paid women to staff the formal sector .
12 The supplier of a new fuel , emerging as a competitor to coal in power stations , has refuted claims that it constitutes a new threat to the environment [ see ED51 ] .
13 A rejection of an ideal or principle is involved only if , when considering the relation of a man to his acts , his principle or ideal is regarded as absolute in the sense that it constitutes an infallible guide to human conduct , or if it is conceived of as a maxim in the Kantian sense and provides the reason a man might have for thinking it worthwhile for him to act morally .
14 The title Chair is useful in that it separates the formal role from the person occupying it . )
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 I recognize that it represents a major change in policy to even consider the idea of recruiting the unemployed , but I understand the C E C for looking for referral and we will be happy with that this year .
20 Equally contentious is its inspirational source , and experts have suggested that it represents a stylized version of such diverse objects as a pine cone , a cypress tree , a leaf , a foetus , a male sperm and the Zoroastrian flame .
21 It is more likely , however , that it represents a short period of dry climate when there were frequent brush fires .
22 One unit was composed of many more buildings than the others and it is suggested that it represents a social difference with specialist activities taking place there .
23 If an ECR is made that is surprising to the clinicians working in a health authority , questions should be asked to ensure that it represents a fair use of resources .
24 The report has been attacked by Friends of the Earth , which insists that it represents no new departure .
25 We believe that it represents the best way forward , not just for this country but for Europe .
26 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 .
27 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 :
28 Indeed , its strength is that it casts a caustic eye over the club scene , dealing with familiar situations with enough self-deprecation and sarcasm to stem any pretension .
29 Are we to conclude both that Papinian wrote this text and that it enunciates a general rule ?
30 The County Court is particularly useful in that it operates a small claims procedure .
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