Example sentences of "[noun sg] that it [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | If , however , I omit to do something with the result that it suffers injury to health which results in death , we think that a charge of manslaughter should not be an inevitable consequence , even if the omission is deliberate . |
| 2 | A driver used to more power and rubber might expect to find himself in trouble if he attempted to maintain his normal pace with the cheapest Fiesta , but such is the confident poise of the car that it offers handling and grip of a far higher order than the tuned-for-economy engine can justify . |
| 3 | On Jan. 28 Uri Lubrani , Israel 's co-ordinator of government activities in Lebanon , said in an interview with Middle East Television that Israel did not object to the Lebanese government deploying its army in southern Lebanon on condition that it took action against terrorist organizations and did not support them . |
| 4 | But it was the unanimous view of the board that it manifested contempt towards the divinity of Christ by presenting him as a living man , not a symbol , and as the object of overt sexual passion . |
| 5 | The nature of excuses in crime and of equity in contract is , however , so particularistic and so dependent upon the facts of the case that it strains credulity to imagine someone seeking in advance to bring his case under such categories . |
| 6 | While Kittay 's theory has the advantage that it allows metaphor to be seen as operating according to the same basic principles regardless of the size of the discursive unit in question , Brooke-Rose 's own examination of the mechanisms of the verb metaphor suggest a view that minimizes dependence on an implicit ‘ proper ’ term outside the text and emphasizes the metaphoric interactions between the terms themselves . |
| 7 | As well as the points mentioned there are the usual claims for Latin that it improves competence in English , facilitates the learning of other languages and so on . |
| 8 | It is a little like the adage that it takes money to make money . |
| 9 | Even Sidney and Beatrice Webb , in their classic history of trade unionism , said of the Act that it gave trade unions ‘ an extra-ordinary and unlimited immunity , however great may be the damage caused , and however unwarranted the act , which most lawyers as well as all employers , regard as nothing less than monstrous ’ . |
| 10 | Locke is anxious to defend his political philosophy against the accusation that it encourages rebellion . |
| 11 | An inositol depletion hypothesis attempts to explain this effect of Li + on the basis that it inhibits inositol phosphate metabolism , so preventing the regeneration of free inositol . |
| 12 | The hirer sued the owner of the excavator as vicariously liable for the driver 's negligence , and the owner set up clause 8 of the contract as a defence , on the basis that it transferred liability for the driver 's actions to the hirer . |
| 13 | It is really one of the foundations of any executive power group that it maintains secrecy about its activities and avoids the possibility for its antagonists to subsume that power . |
| 14 | Christians claim that what happened on Good Friday was decisive for humankind — it was of such a definitive , absolute nature that it split world history in two and it declares that the many strands of human experience ( hope , joy , peace , human fulfilment ) run through the crossroads of the cross . |
| 15 | He went into the whole ritual and found nothing open to the charge that it encouraged superstition . |
| 16 | The compensation demanded would cover claims by Virgin that it lost revenue from passengers ‘ poached ’ by BA after gaining access to its computer records . |
| 17 | Dialogic Corp , making multimedia products in Parsippany , New Jersey , has unveiled an ambitious development that it calls Signal Computing System Architecture . |
| 18 | Although the desire to become a home-owner may represent a genuine social aspiration for these women and their families , there is no evidence that it guarantees satisfaction with housework : the housewives in the sample who did own their homes were no more satisfied than those whose homes were rented . |
| 19 | There is one immediate step that Serbia could take as a clear sign that it wants peace . |
| 20 | Between 1815 and 1835 there was much discussion on mental effects , with the belief that it caused madness . |
| 21 | While there are no confirmed reports of women who have been sterilized against their will or without their knowledge , many women have mentioned friends who have been sterilized without their permission and it is a common belief that it takes place . |
| 22 | In interviews with a number of panel members filling various roles in the project , and including members of the coordinating committee , it was generally acknowledged that the panel was often less than well chaired , with a fairly universal feeling that it lacked direction and a clear sense of purpose . |
| 23 | For years the headscarf was frowned upon and sometimes banned on the ground that it encouraged dissent among children of different religions . |
| 24 | Although Jonadab did not believe in the old country superstition that an elder bush planted by a house kept away witches , he was a firm believer that it deflected lightning during a storm . |
| 25 | It ‘ is more dynamic , not in the sense that it expresses movement ( which a noun can also express ) but because it creates more activity between the words of the sentence in which it is used ’ ( 1955a:75 ) . |
| 26 | It is highly technical not just in the sense that it involves computer technology but also because it is totally based in the area of printing . |
| 27 | Firstly , the Forum programme is global in the sense that it takes place in all the regions . |
| 28 | Dr King believes it does in the sense that it needs change , and by offering that Clinton is the right man for the job . |
| 29 | Perhaps , and perhaps contentiously , it was because the general insurrection had not taken place at this time : at least not in the sense that it involved trial by battle . |
| 30 | However , this counter-argument in turn assumes that the requirement of sufficient interest is a liberal standing rule in the sense that it makes access to the courts to challenge administrative action very easy , and so shifts the burden of weeding out weak cases to other mechanisms . |