Example sentences of "that it [vb -s] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The strength of a social institutional ideal , however , is not that it always attains its stated objectives , but that it establishes itself as the desirable norm . |
| 2 | C's attraction is that it lends itself to structured programming more readily than assembly language programming and it is within a C language shall that the assembly language modules should be inserted . |
| 3 | One reason why chalcedony has been so highly esteemed is that it lends itself to a variety of decorative treatments . |
| 4 | Israel 's uniqueness stems from the fact that it considers itself to be in a perpetual state of war with its Arab neighbours which , together with the Nazi barbarities of the last war , is somehow supposed to make the rest of the world feel permanently sorry for Israel and give it the right to carry out any intelligence operations it likes . |
| 5 | I agree with hon. Members who have said that it may prove to be a major step towards the valuable goal of greater unity in Europe , but let us face the fact that it changes nothing in today 's world . |
| 6 | The first is that it says nothing about W-cells . |
| 7 | Finally , one major gap in Oakeshott 's theory is that it says nothing about the fundamental issue of how societas may be reconstituted in the modern age . |
| 8 | They then have to try and unravel it and , in so doing , will find that it takes them in all sorts of different places until at the end they find a small present . |
| 9 | The appeal of this closely-worked new study is that it presents him as a comprehensive human being . |
| 10 | That there was a pattern for her in Lermontov 's novel is conceivable : but it ca n't be claimed that it fits her with exactitude , or that it provides an explanation of her conduct . |
| 11 | In the absence of legal criteria that distinguish constitutional law from other laws , the definition becomes so broad that it defines nothing at all . |
| 12 | My view would be that it does nothing of the sort and that if we think it does we delude ourselves . |
| 13 | Once you have become used to the exercise you will find that it helps you on many an occasion when you feel tension mounting within you . |
| 14 | It is sometimes suggested that the absence of note-taking can be a help to the informant , in that it frees him from the inhibiting effects of a recorder and a notebook . |
| 15 | It is , of course , clear that the Report does not speak on behalf of working-class culture , but it should also be noted that it distances itself from the culture of the middle class ( cf. 236/256–7 ) . |
| 16 | If I am unfortunate enough to experience the untimely death of several people I am attached to so that it forms something of a pattern , then I am likely to experience considerable difficulty with my bereavements : there has been none of the unconscious preparation for the death of someone close that goes on in our awareness of incidents that are likely to occur . |
| 17 | The terms of this argument repeat exactly those of the critical debate about univocal meaning , according to which the only alternative to the idea that history has a single meaning must be that it has none at all . |
| 18 | Marlboros have become the alternative to hard currency — safer than dollars , which the ordinary citizen is forbidden to have , and more useful than the rouble , so soft that it buys nothing worth having . |
| 19 | I feel that it shows itself in the contrast between the child 's — we 're talking about children for the moment , although obviously there are dyslexic adults — it shows itself in the contrast between the person 's ability to express him or herself in words and their ability to put it down on paper and to read it off paper , and it 's this contrast which often arouses one 's suspicions that there might be some problem and , having gone into it a little , we find that it stems from a failure of the sensory motor system — the brain is n't processing the information it 's receiving through the ear and eye . |
| 20 | Yeah , I , I 'm suggesting that the facilities management contract , be referred to the budget review sub-committee for consideration , and in that way we can actually consider it , and obviously if the report is not yet prepared , erm , perhaps we can put some input into it , I have to say , that it disturbs me to be given an answer , that do n't worry everybody , there 's a report coming , and then we suddenly say well , we might like to look at it in three weeks time , we 're told actually it 's not written yet . |
| 21 | Er as I said on , on Thursday night , that it saddens me about , that I 'm also an ex-patient of . |
| 22 | Ukraine for example is already stated in its er declaration of Sovereignty that it regards itself as a non nuclear zone , so they 're not going to want nuclear weapons for themselves , and er , I imagine that the former republics will have to quite a a comprehensive military alliance perhaps on the lines of NATO and that nuclear weapons will be vested in that alliance . |
| 23 | The matches are made of a wood so flimsy that it reminds me of the balsa with which I tried , unsuccessfully , to build model aeroplanes . |
| 24 | The fourth and most important implication of the placebo response is that it reminds us of the beneficial effect of the successful physician-patient encounter . |
| 25 | It 's true that it seduces us with its pulse-quickening thrill , but it also serves as a privileged glimpse into the paranoia , loneliness and tunnel vision of the male survivalist . |
| 26 | So how would we find an outside correspondence for jealousy , a way of writing about it that would make it real for the reader , so real that it puts him/her in touch with his/her own jealousy ? |
| 27 | Lovelock sees this dual function as a vital bridge , but others argue that it puts him in an invidious and altogether too powerful position . |
| 28 | Given a set of forces and an assurance that equilibrium prevails , the human sense of balance is so finely developed that it directs us to their focus . |
| 29 | So it 's really a case of just ensuring that the T G I manual does cover all a , it , it needs to state where it takes over from the procedure and then it needs to ensure that it covers everything from there on about T G I , because erm , just from thinking through some of the other procedures , I mean , it does n't , T G I does n't come into the costing , or at least it 's got it 's own costings . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's unproven technology , and Microsoft has not made it clear that it wants it as a server ’ . |