Example sentences of "[noun] that it [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No pay was given for Bank Holidays , with the result that it took weeks to recover from the loss of income . |
| 2 | Remove a fox from its territory and another will soon take its place — so where is fox-hunting 's defence that it controls foxes ? |
| 3 | The internalized dialogue that it brings acts on the mind so as to generate a continuing cycle of reflection and intellectual advance . |
| 4 | RE can be judged effective to the degree that it helps pupils develop : 1 . |
| 5 | The contrast at the Congress between a vulgar and a relatively sophisticated aesthetic as exemplified in the difference of emphasis between Zhdanov and Bukharin is interesting to the degree that it has reverberations in the work of Nizan . |
| 6 | It may not be an accident that it has echoes of Knossos . |
| 7 | No government is likely to say at this juncture that it regards cars as an environmental menace and intends to reduce their numbers by so many per cent a year . |
| 8 | India 's government is so concerned about naturally high fluoride levels in water that it believes children under seven should not use fluoridated toothpaste . |
| 9 | The company moved there from its ' Manchester , UK base after allegations that it damaged workers health by exposing them to mercury were made on a BBC Newsnight progamme two years ago . |
| 10 | Bede says of the episcopal authority of Bishop Wilfrid in the reign of Oswiu that it embraced Northumbrians and Picts as far as the power of Oswiu extended ( HE III , 3 ) , and the Life of Wilfrid that in the reign of Ecgfrith it widened still further so that Wilfrid was bishop of the Saxons ( that is , the Northumbrians ) in the south and the Britons , Scots and Picts in the north ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 21 ) . |
| 11 | Now that the contents of everything have to be described in great detail on the packaging , they duly told the French people that it contained preservatives . |
| 12 | No political action may be undertaken or justified on the ground that it promotes an ideal of the good nor on the ground that it enables individuals to pursue an ideal of the good . |
| 13 | But there was a conflicting theory that it ate leaves . |
| 14 | The 50 per cent discount that it offers shareholders on its ferry crossings boosted the number of shareholders by 60 per cent to 160,000 between 1981 and 1984 . |
| 15 | The firm says it is doing work for IBM in other areas but declined to be more specific , although that suggests that IBM may have taken on board the message that it needs outsiders to run some of its key business units . |
| 16 | The agenda might be termed ‘ classical ’ in the sense that it addresses problems raised by Idealism , Realism , and other approaches whose focus is on the state as the crucial unit in the international system . |
| 17 | For him , even choices which are clearly dictated by subject matter are part of style : it is part of the style of a particular cookery book that it contains words like butter , flour , boil and bake ; and it is part of the style of Animal Farm that it contains many occurrences of pigs , farm , and Napoleon . |
| 18 | His books were not widely circulated and in one of the last two which were dedicated to his son ( and unpublished ) was the assertion that it contains instances " that will make you a better interpreter of dreams than all , or at least inferior to none ; but , if published , they will show you know no more than the rest " — a sentiment which T. R. Glover rather pithily describes as suggesting science declining into profession . |
| 19 | The corporation has developed , at its Martlesham research laboratory , communications hardware that it hopes companies will install in their own offices for such conferences . |
| 20 | Birch argued that the government was avoiding informing the public that it allowed companies to discharge dangerous chemicals and heavy metals directly into rivers . |
| 21 | Critics of this process of commercialization often pointed to the way that it made journalists less concerned with ‘ the old style of principled journalism ’ . |
| 22 | The Burlington , Massachusetts-based company has always pushed the way that it enables teams of programmers work together , with mechanisms to let them share code safely . |
| 23 | The Evangelical Alliance , representing more than a million Christians of all denominations , was so concerned over the increasing problems created by the occult that it published Doorways to Danger . |
| 24 | In an age where employability is the keynote the idea of educating for leisure may seem an anathema ; however , even job application forms ask questions about leisure interests , presumably on the grounds that it tells employers something about potential employees . |
| 25 | The company is firmly opposed to discounting on the grounds that it undermines standards . |
| 26 | Temple had opposed Baldwin 's Act in 1936 — on the grounds that it permitted exemptions to the raising of the school-leaving age , planned for 1939 — and had been deeply influenced by his undergraduate friends , Tawney and Beveridge . |
| 27 | If there are special political reasons then their use is justified to the extent that it enables individuals better to act for the ordinary reasons which apply to them . |
| 28 | Also bearing on the seriousness of an anomaly will be the length of time that it resists attempts to remove it . |
| 29 | But the fact that it includes librarians from all sectors makes it a potentially important co-ordinating body . |
| 30 | The recruiting office should advertise the fact that it welcomes members of the public who wish to drop in . |