Example sentences of "that it [verb] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The district benefited from the fact that it had comparative information on performance from a large range of providers which enabled them to take a more detached view of the strengths and weaknesses of its own unit , even though it also increased the complexity of contracting . |
| 2 | Djilas did not at this stage of his analysis refer to bureaucracy as a class , though he recognized that it had exclusive control of production and distribution and that it expropriated the economic surplus for itself at the expense of the ‘ direct producers ’ . |
| 3 | One frequent argument for state control is that it facilitates economic planning of key sectors of the economy . |
| 4 | Approval of the treaty had at first been opposed by West Germany 's Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) on the grounds that it offered inadequate protection for East German industry , and that environmental guarantees were insufficient . |
| 5 | Although the Accord was approved by most of the provinces by the end of 1988 , Manitoba and New Brunswick had withheld ratification on the grounds that it offered insufficient protection to Quebec 's English-speaking minority . |
| 6 | I hope that the Opposition will get their act together on the Bill and recognise that it represents enormous investment in Wales and something that will put Cardiff and Wales generally on the world map in a very big way . |
| 7 | The opening pages are ravishing : exquisite cor anglais and oboe plaints , the tenderest of string bass solos , and an organ so discreetly reassuring that it sounds locked deep in the subconscious . |
| 8 | This meant both that the BBC itself was not to ‘ editorialize ’ about the news ( or ‘ matters of public policy ’ , as the Postmaster-General put it in 1927 ) and that it kept strict control over access to the airwaves . |
| 9 | Such was the novelty of this circuit that it provoked much debate in the technical press as to its operation . |
| 10 | The crucial feature of the market as a coordination device is that it involves voluntary exchange of goods and services between two parties at a known price . |
| 11 | The use of a common stack has one disadvantage ( if it is a disadvantage ) in that it forces stricter adherence to proper program structure . |
| 12 | Roberts ( 1971 ) is a rather special example , in that it combines personal reminiscence with careful historical research into poverty in Edwardian Manchester . |
| 13 | The importance of skill theory is that it relates human performance to systems concepts and to individual differences . |
| 14 | Had the Conservatives won the election by a whisker , which at one time seemed likely , they would probably have plumped for a Labour Speaker ( on the grounds that it took one vote off the Opposition ) . |
| 15 | At the meeting the SOC finally ceased its efforts to amend the UN draft plan so that it made explicit mention of " genocide " , in reference to the appalling human rights record of the Khmer Rouge government of the late 1970s . |
| 16 | Rather , the fact that it made any headway at all bears witness to the degree to which wide sections of the British public became alarmed by the apparent drift of Chamberlain 's foreign policy . |
| 17 | Not that it made any difference to the dead . |
| 18 | The Philips Report was so concerned about the increasing proportion of elderly people in the population that it thought some rise in the minimum pension-age inevitable . |
| 19 | Cords Plc manufactures a style of corduroy trousers that it sold last year at £18 each pair . |
| 20 | Entitled Challenge , it ‘ will be progressive in the sense that it understands Christian faith to be of necessity a commitment to the cause of all who are oppressed , discriminated against or unjustly treated . ’ |
| 21 | The chief advantage is that it offers greater protection against predators . |
| 22 | He learned to use his charm , and ‘ it became ’ , his biographer says , ‘ so strong a factor in him that it resembled great beauty in a woman ’ . |
| 23 | The problem with such a characterisation of pluralism is that it bears little resemblance to what pluralists actually say pluralism means , and consequently it is hardly surprising that even the most cursory of empirical investigations can show such a naive version of pluralism is untenable as a description of the distribution of power in Western liberal democracies . |
| 24 | No-one could deny that it brought real benefit to Scotland , which built up one of the most advanced and successful electronics sectors in Europe . |
| 25 | America 's close association with Israel led to expectations that it enjoyed indirect control over the behaviour of the latter . |
| 26 | I must say that it sheds some light on the state of some of the aircraft that I had to fly in then . |
| 27 | In her foreword , Ruth Richardson , the Minister of Finance ( and not the most popular Kiwi politician ) , expresses it thus : ‘ The special advantages of accrual accounting are that it distinguishes between capital and current spending , and that it takes better account of the cost of current policies for future generations … |
| 28 | Alright , now if we look at the , the rural instead of the urban wage rate , right , up here alright , now let's just say that it takes that amount of time before this individual gets a job in the urban area , alright , now if we discount alright the erm , the rural , the urban wages right , that 's all this |
| 29 | I feel , however , that it takes insufficient account of the natural caution and pragmatism of the British people , which was admirably reflected in the negotiating approach of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and his colleagues in the Cabinet . |
| 30 | The downward arpeggio in the last two bars will obviously be given to the clarinet , for besides the fact that it fits that instrument like a glove , it does not lie within the range of any other wind instrument . |