Example sentences of "that it [verb] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He slipped the catch and saw that it contained an assortment of old prayer books , missals , devotional pamphlets , and a pile of booklets about the history of the church . |
| 4 | Marx 's reaction to this was as much an attempt to counter the claim being made on behalf of the Prussian bureaucracy in the 1840s that it offered an alternative to constitutionalism , as it was a theoretical objection to Hegel 's interpretation of the state ( Liebich 1982 ) . |
| 5 | Indeed a similar equivocal attitude exists towards the issue of council-house sales , some women ( like some socialists ) even appearing to endorse the ‘ right to buy ’ clause in the new Act , presumably on the basis that it represents an avenue for women to enter into the private market ( Brion and Tinker , 1980 , p. 43 ) . |
| 6 | The 1987 Green Paper on Education was notable in that it forecast an increase in the number of students in HE in the 1990s . |
| 7 | She could n't remember now how long he had held her imprisoned , only that it seemed an eternity of immeasurable time . |
| 8 | I thought you would never come , ’ she said as Claudia stepped into a scene of such chaos that it seemed an impossibility they would be ready on time . |
| 9 | The Soviet Union and its allies refused to sign the San Francisco peace Treaty in September 1951 on the grounds that it violated an agreement on ‘ one peace ’ reached in 1942 , and condemned the Security Treaty . |
| 10 | The essence of the crime of assault , as distinct from battery , is that it involves an apprehension of the immediate application of unlawful force . |
| 11 | A typical objection against it might be that it involves an attempt to settle a metaphysical issue without first clarifying the conditions under which such an issue can be meaningfully discussed . |
| 12 | The new procedure is simple in that it involves an application form having three parts on the front of it ( the declaration of means being on the back ) , first the information about the applicant and the charge , second a part to be completed by the Sheriff Clerk , and last a part to bc completed by the Local Secretary . |
| 13 | This has no application when the type of substantive error is that the tribunal was improperly constituted , or that it made an order which it was not empowered to make . |
| 14 | But it was only because much , too , bore very directly upon the most urgent domestic questions that it made an impact at home . |
| 15 | REAL SOUNDS OF AFRICA 7 Miles High ( Big 1 ) One of the attractions of World Music , as identified by its advocates , is that it offers an antidote to the studio world of Erasure and their ilk . |
| 16 | Another important aspect of Marx 's notion of the Asiatic mode of production is that it offers an explanation of what he saw as the surprising stability of Asian states . |
| 17 | If the idea itself is more important to you than the glory reflecting from its success , then raise the idea at a meeting so that it becomes an idea generated by a team . |
| 18 | Not that it takes an age to construct a very convincing garden with strong Japanese elements . |
| 19 | This means that it takes an average of 12 years and $231 million to develop a new drug . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | One interpretation of the intermittent energy which Joseph Sturge put into the free produce movement in the 1840s is that it constituted an attempt by a Friend who had launched out into public and even political life to maintain links with more traditionally quietist brethren who none the less looked for greater perfection in the world . |
| 22 | For all that it remains an object which can not move itself or save itself from destruction . |
| 23 | The stepwise progression of colorectal cancer through a series of genetic alterations as proposed by Vogelstein is attractive in that it postulates an inter-relationship between the accumulation of genertic changes and tumour stage . |
| 24 | ‘ The business case for what we are doing is obvious , ’ says Hume , calculating that it costs an average of between £10,000 and £15,000 to recruit and train a replacement for every female member of staff who leaves . |
| 25 | If you read the report at paragraph seventy , you 'll see that it has an investment value in the region of eight million pounds , it 's only worth forty million if you kill all the tenants overnight , which is rather drastic , vacant possession in other words . |
| 26 | We pay attention only to what is in the interests of an animal , since it is incapable of the awareness that it has an interest . |
| 27 | If as we indicated , Grice 's theory of meaning-nn is construed as a theory of communication , it has the interesting consequence that it gives an account of how communication might be achieved in the absence of any conventional means for expressing the intended message . |
| 28 | Clearly something does happen in higher education ; it is not enough to argue that it trains an elite and to leave it at that . |
| 29 | Rowthorn 's argument is important , in that it highlights an irony of capitalist socialisation . |
| 30 | This strategy is particularly interesting in that it implies an awareness of a lack in the Oxfordshire scheme , which provides neither guidance on strategies for looking at the curriculum nor criteria for judging its appropriateness and adequacy , but merely requires teachers to do it . |