Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] [that] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others look at China 's economic renaissance and quake with fear , about wages one-tenth of those in industrial countries , and about political ambitions that it might soon be able to afford . |
| 2 | It includes structures that ( according to some observers ) have facilitated policy discontinuity — a discontinuity not incompatible with an empirical orientation to change — yet comprises such an interdependent complex of political bodies that it has become increasingly difficult for government to govern and to initiate radical and comprehensive change . |
| 3 | Despite some criticisms that it made him look like Michael Foot , it was a media success . |
| 4 | On the other hand , it will be argued that the large number of arrests points to a malaise of such dimensions that it can not completely be dealt with by a police investigation and that a wider inquiry is called for . |
| 5 | Presented in this way , it is almost inconceivable to anyone understanding the function of such committees that it would pursue any other than the last alternative . |
| 6 | Its officials today orchestrate an annual plethora of money-spinning international tours of such proportions that it would be unreasonable for players fulfilling these official commitments at this level not to be compensated financially . |
| 7 | There was an abandoned city on the coast to the south of the G'bai , and the G'bai itself was almost certainly the result of either a nuclear war or an accident of such proportions that it had produced large-scale volcanic activity . |
| 8 | But you will also remember that each of these cells is capable of holding the whole text of the New Testament and , moreover , it is gigantic when measured by the number of sophisticated machines that it contains . |
| 9 | He has dismissed warnings from the Office of Fine Arts that it is forbidden to deal in State property , quoting the former assistant secretary of state L. de Graaff , who in 1984 stated that the artists were free to do with these works as they wished . |
| 10 | Again the Board was persuaded by the arguments of large minorities that it should require the capitalisation of these costs when the specified criteria are met . |
| 11 | It horrified the Council 's more conservative wing for , despite all protestations that it was complementary to and not contradictory of Vatican I 's teaching on papal primacy , it did inevitably suggest a remarkably different overall understanding of how the Church should be governed . |
| 12 | It is notable that a quarter of both incontinent and non-incontinent subjects think it is due to a medical condition , a quarter of incontinent women that it is due to childbirth , and a quarter do n't know . |
| 13 | While Poulantzas allows that the sort of research designed to sustain this view has some limited use 's he first of all objects that it does not bear out the factual claim that government officials and leading capitalists belong to an identifiable group . |
| 14 | Long after his death The Pilgrim 's Progress so universally found its way into the childhood reading of all classes that it came to be regarded as part of the heritage of all Protestant Churches in the English-speaking world . |
| 15 | Hence the urgency of the question as to whether Christ is an inclusive symbol , and the feeling of many women that it is not . |
| 16 | First impressions , therefore , are of a fascinating and challenging work , so full of choreographic riches that it will take more viewings fully to savour them . |
| 17 | Czechoslovakia is going ahead with a $50 million programme to improve the safety of its controversial V-1 unit at Jaslovske Bohunice plant , despite Austrian requests that it be closed on the grounds that its proximity to the border posed a threat to Austrian citizens . |
| 18 | It is because of those reforms that it is right for us to be sceptical about some of the claims that the right hon. Gentleman has made today . |
| 19 | How does this particular religious tradition shape up at the end of the twentieth century , particularly in the context of those challenges that it has faced over the last hundred and fifty years from movements in secular thought like Darwinism , Marxism and Positivism ? |
| 20 | 10 In determining for the purposes of this Act whether a house is unfit for human habitation , regard shall be had to its condition in respect of the following matters — repair , stability , freedom from damp , internal arrangement , natural lighting , ventilation , water supply , drainage and sanitary conveniences , facilities for preparation and cooking of food and for the disposal of waste water ; and the house shall be regarded as unfit for human habitation if , and only if , it is so far defective in one or more of those matters that it is not reasonably suitable for occupation in that condition . |
| 21 | We could standardize on US equipment with production under licence of those items that it is practicable and economic to manufacture in Western Europe . |
| 22 | Software602 , the Czech Republic 's largest packaged software vendor , announced it has shelved plans to prosecute a group of Czech teenagers that it alleged had illegally copied software packages belonging to it after the Business Software Alliance refuted the company 's assertions that it was backing the case . |
| 23 | Yes , I mean it 's generally true is n't it I think of all societies I ca n't think of any o of , of any exceptions that it normally is older males who have more resources . |
| 24 | Or by a robin quite determinedly attacking a bundle of red feathers that it has mistaken as an invader to its territory while ignoring an adjacent and perfectly good-looking stuffed robin , but lacking the all-important red feather flash . |
| 25 | Times were hard , and society did not take the same enlightened view of illegitimate children that it does today . |
| 26 | Each gene is selected for its capacity to cooperate successfully with the population of other genes that it is likely to meet in bodies . |
| 27 | and I found , for me personally and a lot of other mothers that it started in pregnancy . |
| 28 | There were a number of other areas that it was felt by the IBOA should be discussed and that included Future Branch Structures , Centralisation and Contracting of Work . |
| 29 | In an article in the British Journal of Religious Education in 1989 , Nicola Slee notes that in practice , There is little respect for the claim of religious believers that it is a lifetime 's work to come to know and be possessed by ( note , not to possess ) the truth of even one tradition . |
| 30 | A senior administration source told The Daily Telegraph that the Yeltsin team had informally agreed a ‘ sacrifice list ’ of minor ministries that it would throw one-by-one to hardliners ‘ like bones ’ if the need arose . |