Example sentences of "that it [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From a strictly biological point of view , this work is notable enough in that it establishes a new category of bacterial metabolism . |
| 2 | The importance of the concession theory is that it establishes a theoretical framework sympathetic to state intervention ; the company is a creature of the state , existing to promote the public welfare , and as such the state has the right to interfere in its internal affairs and need not confine itself to external , general-law regulation . |
| 3 | Now , the issue here is not whether this was ‘ good ’ or ‘ bad ’ , the motive humanitarian or base , but that it had a tremendous impact upon the agriculture of the Third World at least in Latin America , South and South-east Asia . |
| 4 | Lieutenant Colonel Stewart Menzies , was preparing to clear his desk for one last time and transfer to Sir Hugh 's enormous office overlooking Whitehall , an office so secret that it had a private door and staircase that could not be overlooked . |
| 5 | Well I knew it was but it the fact that it had a nice easy switch in the base was something that I 'd been looking for . |
| 6 | When Xerox first embarked on benchmarking it helped that it had a Japanese partner , Fuji Xerox , that it could look to for information about Japanese practices . |
| 7 | The seam had been so thoroughly picked that it had a sharp edge . |
| 8 | If , as naïve young hunters , they attacked a brightly coloured prey , bit it and started to chew it , only to discover that it had a foul taste or a poisonous secretion , they would probably remember it for the rest of their lives . |
| 9 | The society will argue at the full hearing that it had a legitimate expectation that it would be consulted by the council . |
| 10 | One could only say of an electron encircling the hydrogen nucleus that it had a certain probability of being found here and a certain probability of being found there . |
| 11 | — ‘ Non , ’ Alyssia said , mastering the French word and deciding that it had a certain ring to it when used in conversation with this particular woman . |
| 12 | It worked in a similar fashion to Papin 's toy except that it had a separate boiler , thus not boiling the water in the cylinder . |
| 13 | And it was so appalling that it had a genuine effect on public opinion . |
| 14 | So , for instance , a temple with eight columns might be shown on a coin as having eight , six , four or two ; it was sufficient to show that it had a columned portico . |
| 15 | Always shrimps , bread and butter , a bowl of mustard and cress and a rich , light , golden sponge-cake baked that morning in the oven with the Sunday joint so that it had a faint savour of burnt meat fat . |
| 16 | While agreeing with this description of Hoccleve 's illness as of psychotic severity , our own evaluation is that it had a more depressive quality , many of the symptoms described by Hoccleve meeting the modern criteria for serious depression . |
| 17 | The major intention of the 1936 Act , however , was specifically to encourage white-collar unionisation , and Bain and Elsheikh ( 1976 ) find no evidence that it had a significant impact upon aggregate union growth . |
| 18 | Further investigation showed that it had a large number of actions : so large that the trade name Largactil was coined . |
| 19 | It was threatened again ( though Edward VIII made it plain that he would only comply if the Liberal government demonstrated that it had a popular mandate for abolition ) in 1909 . |
| 20 | The fact that it had a happy ending was immaterial to me . |
| 21 | What Labour could hardly claim was that it had a magic formula for preserving peace with the unions , although the St Valentine 's Day ‘ concordat ’ with the unions was milked for what it was worth . |
| 22 | Although her decision to do so did not ultimately affect her position as one of this country 's most important early modernists , it is my contention that it had a profound effect on the development of her art in the 1920s and , possibly , for the rest of her life . |
| 23 | The boys parted , and Robert saw that it contained a villainous-looking man of about four foot in height . |
| 24 | At the start of the present study and , indeed , until its analysis stage we did not associate the Dounreay-Thurso area with the oil industry , and finding that it contained a high proportion of oil workers was unexpected . |
| 25 | ‘ The catering industry is unique in the challenges it offers young people and every effort must be made to ensure that it plays a central role in careers advice , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Whatever the structure , it will be increasingly important for the institution to take a strategic view of its information requirements and the supporting technological structure , as well as for the library to ensure that it plays a leading role in any new arrangement . |
| 27 | We know this because sometimes we may use a word which we ourselves consider innocuous , only to find that it produces a strong emotional response in someone else . |
| 28 | Then they graft a bud of a dwarf variety onto it , so that it produces a short trunk . |
| 29 | By this finding himself relieved , he again resumed his studies until the hour of dinner , when the disorder again attacked him so violently that it produced a fainting fit , which held him till the evening ; he went soon after to bed , and passed a very uneasy , restless night . |
| 30 | Subjective reports on the effects of reduced sleep were that it produced a chronic feeling of sleepiness ( as measured by the Stanford Sleepiness Scale questionnaire ) , and , perhaps not surprisingly , increased the feeling of needing more sleep . |