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

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1 281 , save that it extended a principle previously confined to the husband/wife cases to a case of parents giving security for the debts of their son .
2 Or it may be that the internal organization of the firm is such that it replicates a capital market so that middle managers are obliged to profit-maximize .
3 Questions poured towards the chair , and Mrs Murphy banged her gavel so hard on the coffee table that it left a mark , which distressed her so much that she forgot for a moment why she was hammering and stared sadly at the dent in the wood .
4 Viewed from the front it could be any make ; it 's from behind that it establishes a look of its own with a high , rounded tail .
5 After about three weeks it was noticeable that it had a problem with its mouth .
6 You have heard in response to a direct question put by yourself to an expert for North Yorkshire County Council , that he regarded the village of Flaxton as making a contribution to the historic setting of York , that it had a greenbelt function .
7 I have never been able to identify the photographer Alec Roberts ' establishment , but I think that it had a balcony .
8 The exercise was designed to make a student stand in front of class , sing his song and force each syllable out in an elongated manner so that it had a beginning and an end ; this , Landau explained , ought to enable the student to go into neutral , physically and mentally , so that tensions could be released and what was happening inside could be heard through the voice changes .
9 Finally Ramsey said that he would respond to any invitation provided that it had a consensus of advice behind it , and provided he was sure that the need for strength in the North was considered .
10 He chose Touche Ross because he knew that it had a tie-up with Tohmatsu , the biggest accountancy firm in Japan .
11 Ltd. v. Hawkins ( 1859 ) 4 H. & N. 87 was authority for the proposition that it was an ordinary incident of all corporations ( including municipal corporations ) that they might sue for libel ; that case was only authority for the proposition that a trading company might sue for libel by which its property was injured ; ( 3 ) in holding that the Manchester Corporation case was decided per incuriam when there was no basis for so holding and he should have followed it ; ( 4 ) in holding that in bringing an action for libel not alleged to have caused actual damage , no valid distinction could be made between trading corporations and municipal corporations , which ignored the true basis on which a trading corporation was permitted to sue for libel , namely that it had a trading character , the defamation of which might ruin it : South Hetton Coal Co . Ltd. v. North-Eastern News Association Ltd. [ 1894 ] 1 Q.B. 133 , 145 .
12 British town planning , both as a movement and as a profession , found that it had a relevance to wider questions to which it could respond .
13 We 've heard of a small baby who chewed through a gift and swallowed a battery , and of a granny who bought one of those talking baby dolls for her favourite grandaughter , only to find that it had a vocabulary of four-letter words .
14 ‘ We realised that the whole psychology of collecting is a fascinating area and that it had a lot more potential … hence the reason for the Festival .
15 Arriving at the edge of the quay , Fitzroy Maclean attempted to inflate it , only to discover that it had a puncture .
16 The house we were in was solid Victorian in style , both inside and out , except that it had a tin roof .
17 Anthony Scrivener QC , for the defence , had told the judge that Goldman had such an interest in protecting the MCC share price that it had a motive to ‘ create a story ’ about his client mounting a bear raid .
18 Then I saw that it had a light on the top and the crest of Kent Fire Brigade on the driver 's door .
19 By the sixteenth century , no longer assuming that it had a right to positions of leadership in the armies , the aristocracy began to attend military academies where it learned the art of making war .
20 People working in these professions often take pleasure in describing a sales campaign in which surplus stocks of milk were dispersed by persuading the public that it had a taste for a new mass product , such as yoghurt , or in reminding us that ploughman 's lunches could be invented to persuade a new group to patronize pubs .
21 Mr Spring stressed his belief that the Anglo-Irish Agreement was ‘ very important ’ and insisted that it had a future .
22 Whether she realized that the French alliance of 1548 was exceedingly fragile , entered into faute de mieux , or whether she assumed that it had a solidity which almost three centuries might have been expected to give it , is not clear .
23 ‘ I should have thought that it had a hell of a lot to do with you . ’
24 ‘ Obviously , in the last few years when you look back and see that it had an impact in the field , then it becomes a possibility . ’
25 His pupil , D'Eslon , formulated laws under which animal magnetism seemed to operate : it was a universal , continuous fluid , which was subtle in that it had an ebb and flow ; it was concentrated in the human body like a magnet ; and could be accumulated and communicated over a distance .
26 And nobody noticed that it said A colon and not C colon .
27 Factoring is useful in that it relieves a company of the administrative burden of collecting book debt although it can be expensive .
28 It has been given the name " facial vision " , because blind people have reported that it feels a bit like the sense of touch , on the face .
29 Tha that 's why I 'm a bit concerned about messing around s straightening and that sort of thing , cos I 'm sure I 've had this problem before I 'm sure that it reduces a lot of er
30 One of the few differences between beat policing and assembly-line work was that it contained a measure of unpredictability .
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