Example sentences of "that it [vb -s] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the desire to become a home-owner may represent a genuine social aspiration for these women and their families , there is no evidence that it guarantees satisfaction with housework : the housewives in the sample who did own their homes were no more satisfied than those whose homes were rented . |
| 2 | Those policyholders without index-linked policies have had to frequently increase their sum insured so that it keeps pace with inflation and continues to cover the full cost of rebuilding their homes . |
| 3 | If , however , I omit to do something with the result that it suffers injury to health which results in death , we think that a charge of manslaughter should not be an inevitable consequence , even if the omission is deliberate . |
| 4 | One of the principles of hypnopaedia is that it transforms sleep into hypnosis . |
| 5 | The first major problem with Fforde 's work is that it equates collectivism with socialism , which is as historically wrong as it is jejune . |
| 6 | Yes , certainly , because I think that it gives depth to life . |
| 7 | The difficulty with natural selection which Taylor raises repeatedly is that it explains evolution by chance . |
| 8 | As well as the points mentioned there are the usual claims for Latin that it improves competence in English , facilitates the learning of other languages and so on . |
| 9 | The size and quality of this sample , its relatively recent date , and the fact that it includes travel on foot and by pedal cycle in the same detail as motorised travel make the resulting data particularly valuable for the study of many aspects of personal travel on weekdays in London . |
| 10 | One is that it provides scope for corruption ; e.g. , in the placing of government purchases , the allocation of commodities in excess demand , and in regulatory activities . |
| 11 | Such a usage is still ultimately deictic , in that it makes reference to participant-role , but it is not directly place-deictic ( in that there is no anchorage to the location of the present speech event ) . |
| 12 | Oftel does say that it believes video on demand comes under the auspices of the Broadcasting Act , rather than BT 's Public Telecommunications Operator licence , and while the ITC agrees , it also says that the question of whether it constitutes a broadcasting service has still to be decided . |