Example sentences of "[noun] that it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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31 By 1800 there was a widespread argument in the medical and moralistic texts that it caused physical illness , and features such as acne , epilepsy and premature ejaculation .
32 ( In Example 90 , the triads are so frequently of the augmented type that it seems probable that the harmony was composed first and the horizontal outline of each voice delineated only afterwards .
33 ‘ If this judgment is less helpful than the parties hoped , as it almost certainly is , the reason lies in the terms of the statute , which places the discretion so unequivocally on the trial judge that it leaves little or no room for an appellate court to lay down principles or even guidelines .
34 That is the question this chapter leaves us , and it is the question that it left those who first heard the larger narrative being read .
35 He appeared to shrug off the news but there is no question that it interjected some kind of identity crisis into his life .
36 America 's close association with Israel led to expectations that it enjoyed indirect control over the behaviour of the latter .
37 Cords Plc manufactures a style of corduroy trousers that it sold last year at £18 each pair .
38 With case study material print has an important role but there is always the danger that it goes astray or just does n't get read .
39 Superfly Curtis Mayfield 's superlative score makes superfluous blaxploitation pic that it accompanied redundant .
40 Secondly , even if the applicant has not sought the alternative remedy , judicial review may still be allowed if the applicant alleges malice on the part of the decision-maker ; or if the court thinks that the applicant 's interest in the action is of such importance that it deserves judicial protection : an example would be personal liberty .
41 This pattern of land distribution reflects such great disparities and brings about so much poverty that it represents one of the major problems that agrarian reform has addressed .
42 The Iraqi government had informed the UN that same evening that it accepted all 12 UN resolutions without conditions .
43 ‘ It is certainly a polygon , and our historians , experts and researchers have come to the conclusion that it has 24 sides and is 100ft in diameter . ’
44 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 .
45 It is the view of the group that it has another role in promoting dialogue on particular areas of concern : the comments on ‘ Data Sources and Research Methodology ’ produced last year are an example .
46 One morning the young man was seized with a fit , in Dr. Prior 's presence , of ‘ such a frightful nature that it required strong nerves to witness same in those who are used to such sights ’ .
47 The pluralist account is descriptively sound , therefore , but may be open to the charge that it ignores this broader vision of socio-economic and political change .
48 They have called on the Northern Regional Health Authority to issue a categorical denial that it has any plans to merge 15 health care districts into six super districts .
49 Mr it 's been suggested from my plaintiff that it took ten to fifteen minutes to enter and secure the flat by the firearms officers .
50 ‘ She has been the target of such spite that it disgraces those who offer it , and she bears it with a dignity that makes me proud , ’ he said as Mrs Kinnock stood behind him , smiling but with tears in her eyes .
51 In vain did her mother insist that the material was expensive , and that anyone , looking at it , would know that it was expensive , for Clara knew in her heart of hearts that it looked cheap .
52 I hope that the Community will concentrate on providing within its borders only those things that it does best — a common legal framework for a large liberal market economy with a social dimension .
53 It is almost as if the modern mind , unable to tolerate cultural restraints , and feeling that discontent in civilization which Freud described long ago , had become so intolerant of the demands of communal existence and civilized behaviour that it saw each and every representative of those restraints as an incitement to revolt rather in the same way that an enraged revolutionary mob , thirsting for the blood of its oppressors , might fall on some unfortunate bystander merely because he happened to bear a resemblance to the head of the secret police .
54 The central feature was an extraordinary cold spell for three weeks in January which destroyed crops and killed so many livestock that it precipitated one of the last great subsistence crises of French history .
55 Indeed , the pineal of a New Zealand reptile known as the tuatara is pigmented and so close to the surface that it looks similar to a real eye .
56 From the analysis above , it would be reasonable to recommend the use of open matching specific grants for each individual service that it wanted expanded .
57 On July 24 the Djibouti government rejected suggestions by Ahmed Ali that it sought territorial expansion at the expense of Somaliland .
58 Obviously if one does not start from this premise , then the point about the wider range of jobs is no longer relevant ; the belief that degrees are taken in order to get jobs is so much part of the physical science students ' taken-for-granted ideas about education that it remains implicit rather than explicit .
59 Vietnam informed the UK that it required adequate Western financial assistance for resettlement .
60 Some managers are convinced that PRP will improve performance and raise income , but there 's hardly any evidence that it produces any improvements .
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