Example sentences of "that [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The United States , faced with an allocation problem , began a review of its defensive commitments that led it to the conclusion that in the event of a military confrontation with the Soviet Union in Europe , the resources it could commit to the fledgling NATO alliance would be insufficient . |
| 2 | It is recommended that this error log is never allowed to grow so large that typing it to the screen takes a significant amount of time . |
| 3 | the most important time aspect of a planation surface is from the latest possible time of initiation of the cycle that produced it to the earliest possible time that it ceased being shaped ( i.e. its terminal date ) because of either burial or uplift ; |
| 4 | The building sits on bearings that isolate it from the ground . |
| 5 | For example , does an animal recoil from a naked flame because it can feel the heat or because it can ‘ see ’ the heat — or because it has some completely different sense that alerts it to the danger ? |
| 6 | Like someone in a trance , she gazed at the clasp that fastened it at the throat . |
| 7 | I was just going to mention the fact that if you have had breast cancer you can not go on H R T cos it was a hormone that caused it in the first place ! |
| 8 | On certain nights the mirror had a faint lustre that separated it from the deeper shadows of the corner in which it stood . |
| 9 | They covered a large tract of ground , quite deserted , but conveniently illuminated by the high powerful lights round the warehouses that separated it from the still-working mainline railway . |
| 10 | The area below the stair then becomes part of the lounge , extending back from the glazed folding doors that separate it from the dining-room ( Fig 48 ) . |
| 11 | To advertise the fact , they surround the pollen and the anthers that produce it with the vivid petals of a flower . |
| 12 | Although we do not yet have a proper quantum theory of gravity , let alone one that unifies it with the other physical interactions , we do have an idea of some of the features it should have . |
| 13 | The answer is that this third human state has a special feature that distinguishes it from the other two ( the inner and the outer states ) in that it is a zone for cultural experience or creative playing . |
| 14 | It is the overdetermined character of the materialist dialectic that distinguishes it from the Hegelian dialectic . |
| 15 | Johnny Rotten sings flat , the song is laughably naive , and the overall feeling is of a third-rate Who imitation , but even so there 's a certain neurotic aggression that distinguishes it from the rest of this week 's insipid bunch . ’ |
| 16 | Because it is open to the sea , the lake becomes salty now and again , but the salt is flushed out by the rivers that feed it from the African mainland . |
| 17 | Course , what you 've got to think of , Conservatives are the one that started it in the first place . |
| 18 | Similar preoccupations dominated the issues that took It into the spring of 1967 . |
| 19 | I am sure this would only be a minority but it is always the minority that spoil it for the majority . |
| 20 | It is an act of love to roll the toothpaste tube if we know that squeezing it in the middle irritates our partner . |
| 21 | The semiotic surfaces as rhythmic pulses , disturbances in logic , and other ‘ poetic ’ mechanisms that mark it as the source of the ‘ poetic ’ in writing ( 1974:22–30 , see also Brooke-Rose 1981:342 ) . |
| 22 | The tale is in fact carefully tied in as the Shipman 's Tale at the beginning of fragment VII , with an endlink that binds it to the Prioress 's Tale that follows it . |
| 23 | There was a big surge of local optimism when Martin Crowe won what appeared to be a very important toss — not that winning it in the first Test had done NZ much good . |
| 24 | The control over text and graphics it allows is immense , and some of the functions that differentiate it from the rest of the Windows word processor league are particularly appropriate for a word processor — sentence selection being a case in point . |
| 25 | Watt 's Nine Men ( 1943 ) depicts a group of soldiers making their last stand in a desert hut , which has a dramatic intensity that pushes it to the edge of documentary fiction . |
| 26 | And then I 'll sell it to another store that sells it on the ground floor . ’ |
| 27 | Worried that leaving it in the basket might suggest that she had been up to no good , the girl ran downstairs starkers with her boyfriend in hot pursuit , playfully offering to help . |
| 28 | The subjective conviction of heightened awareness is so treacherous that to exempt it from the critical tests of reason is to put oneself at the mercy of chance . |