Example sentences of "[noun sg] that it [vb -s] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 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 | Mountain View , California-based Drexler Technology Corp says it has informed Sony Corp that it believes Sony infringed its patents with a a new eight-track Dynamic Digital Sound system to be introduced this summer in Columbia Picture 's ‘ Last Action Hero ’ movie : Drexler has two patents on the reading of high density optical data in a strip format and believes the two patents may be infringed each time digital sound from the movie track is played back using the Sony system . |
| 4 | Remove a fox from its territory and another will soon take its place — so where is fox-hunting 's defence that it controls foxes ? |
| 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 | The internalized dialogue that it brings acts on the mind so as to generate a continuing cycle of reflection and intellectual advance . |
| 10 | RE can be judged effective to the degree that it helps pupils develop : 1 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Locke is anxious to defend his political philosophy against the accusation that it encourages rebellion . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It may not be an accident that it has echoes of Knossos . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | India 's government is so concerned about naturally high fluoride levels in water that it believes children under seven should not use fluoridated toothpaste . |
| 18 | Apple Computer Inc says it is fighting a claim by the US Internal Revenue Service that it owes $290m in back taxes for 1987 and 1988 : issues include transactions with offshore entities , transfer pricing and the timing of deductions ; Apple has appealed to the US Tax Court . |
| 19 | Quorum says that it has some Echo Logic-type technology in development that it calls Autoport and might be interested in a cross-licensing deal — see page four . |
| 20 | Dialogic Corp , making multimedia products in Parsippany , New Jersey , has unveiled an ambitious development that it calls Signal Computing System Architecture . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | There is one immediate step that Serbia could take as a clear sign that it wants peace . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Firstly , the Forum programme is global in the sense that it takes place in all the regions . |
| 30 | Dr King believes it does in the sense that it needs change , and by offering that Clinton is the right man for the job . |