Example sentences of "[that] [vb -s] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only true solution is somehow to alter the cat 's mental state and rid it of the monotony or stress that drives it to perform the ‘ pseudo-infantile ’ actions . |
| 2 | It sounded sneaky and mean , like a kid that thinks it 's got away with something . |
| 3 | The corpse is drawn suspended above the bier , the cloth that covers it suspended above again , and individual figures are similarly itemised . |
| 4 | No I meant one of the film actresses that has it done that way or something , |
| 5 | Using a real-life example that assumes it costs $5 a line to write code and that 100 lines of code can be written a day , SmartStar figures it can cut the cost of generating a trivial application to $750 compared with $12,000 using a tool kit and $7,000 using a Motif GUI builder . |
| 6 | We are with them constantly seven days a week and each day that passes it becomes harder to comprehend that they were ever convicted of such a crime . |
| 7 | The spadefoot has , in fact , adopted a flexible strategy that allows it to cope with all eventualities . |
| 8 | Unlike the gibbon , which tends to specialize in figs of a predictable and often continuous availability that allows it to live in small territories and at a large population density , the orang-utan is a great wanderer . |
| 9 | The last five years have seen heavy investment in a fully integrated computer system that allows it to deal with a customer 's total needs in one phone call — ordering , cancelling and general enquiries . |
| 10 | Microtek , a well-known manufacturer of low-cost flatbed scanners , has recently introduced software that allows it to act as an OCR scanner as well . |
| 11 | SVR4.2 , with its integral desktop manager , optimised performance , and modularity that allows it to run as a client in only 4Mb memory , 60Mb disk — highly impressive when compared to its current competitor , OS/2 — ships in July in source code form for OEMs , in its Intel version only , for AT , EISA and MCA buses . |
| 12 | It does this through a special adaptation that allows it to adjust the concentration of its blood . |
| 13 | Even though the statutory offence that replaces it reduces the public order characteristics of the offence and raises doubts as to whether affray is properly characterised as a public order offence at all , the likelihood is that it will continue to be employed in the prosecution of spontaneous brawls that result in no great injury in circumstances where the evidence of specific offences against the person is deficient . |
| 14 | Mains gas is supplied to around 85% of British homes : it 's available ‘ on tap ’ ( there 's no need to store it ready for use ) ; it 's clean ; it 's easy to control ; and the equipment that uses it needs very little maintenance . |
| 15 | If it is a slow-moving species , then it must rely instead on provoking a panic response in the attacker , a response that sees it pull back in horror and retreat to a safe place . |
| 16 | The question turned off Lomax 's interest like a tap that realises it had flooded itself into deep water . |
| 17 | Main picture Timothy and Christine Easton 's Suffolk farmhouse reflected in the moat that surrounds it Inset , previous page Timothy Easton , painter and sculptor Far left The shape of the internal porch in the parlour shows that the room was once panelled . |
| 18 | Hewlett-Packard Co is now shipping HP OpenView Distributed Management Platform 3.2 , a release that lets it manage OSI as well as TCP/IP networks . |
| 19 | When the green light comes on again that means it 's done does n't it ? |
| 20 | Environment is the soil and water that permits it to sprout and grow , or sees to it that it does n't . |
| 21 | This would run counter to the very informal information exchange that gives it meaning in this internal context . |
| 22 | The other element is that the county 's are so dangerous , and that 's actually quite unusual , they 're so dangerous that we consider they present a risk and it has to be me that considers it presents a risk to life , and I can either restrict the use of premises , but I can prohibit the use entirely . |
| 23 | In an interview last week on the French radio station France Inter 's RadioCom program , Alcatel Alsthom NV president Pierre Suard indicated he did not rule out taking a stake in France Telecom if the latter is privatised by the next administration : ‘ I do n't think the question has been posed today , but when it is , I can tell you that we will study it very seriously , ’ Suard said — ‘ It is essential that France Telecom has a structure that enables it to extend itself beyond France and I think that can come from a new shareholder ; there is industrial logic in the ‘ world 's number one manufacturer of telecommunications equipment ’ owning a stake in a telecommunications operator , ’ he added — ‘ It is the Anglo-Saxon logic ; AT&T is constructed on that basis , but up to now , it has not been European logic , ’ he said . |
| 24 | The fire-bellied toad normally prefers to remain hidden and its back is patterned and coloured in a way that enables it to do so by blending in with its surroundings . |
| 25 | These attract a small moth with a specially curved proboscis that enables it to gather pollen from the yucca stamens . |
| 26 | As far as the central grant is concerned , it has developed a technique that enables it to cut the money given to some authorities which it considers to be over-spenders by an amount equal to or more than any expenditure increase . |
| 27 | And it has a full PCL 3 interpreter that enables it to emulate Epson FX850 or IBM PP4207 printers . |
| 28 | but I must admit it 's up to each person that organizes it to say that , great , we do n't need the collectors . |
| 29 | The impact of this resolutely conservative and often authoritarian political ideology can be felt right across the field of social and economic policy where an idealized and homogenized vision of ‘ The Black Community ’ is the object of a discourse that urges it to take care of its own problems and assume the major burden of managing its own public affairs . |
| 30 | Are there any rules for writing poetry in the sense that does it have to rhyme , does it have to have a rhythm , does it have to have a particular for to be recognised and accepted as a piece of poetry as opposed , perhaps , to a piece of prose ? |