Example sentences of "that it [vb -s] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It has to be so organised , as a learner-centred activity , that it sensitises the participant to cultural differences .
2 The case is significant in that it establishes the principle that the courts may refer , subject to specific criteria , to Parliamentary material when construing legislation .
3 This is a distinctive feature of the arrangements , both because it identifies pressure at an early stage and also in that it establishes the source of disturbance and whether it is a weak or strong currency .
4 One of the reasons for the beneficial effect of dietary fibre is that it reduces the absorption of cholesterol — but there are other ways , too , in which it would appear to perform useful functions in keeping the heart healthy .
5 My main difficulty is that it reduces the principle enunciated by this House in the Hoffmann-La Roche case to the status of an arbitrary rule — what Dillon L.J .
6 Again like the human smile , purring can be used in appeasement by a subordinate animal towards a dominant one , the implication being that it reduces the likelihood of attack .
7 There is an advantage to management too , in that it reduces the dependence of the machine on consistent human performance .
8 On a portable , the justification for this is that it reduces the weight , but the BJ-200 is n't a portable .
9 But one consequence of such stylistic infection is that it reduces the difference between the text being written about and the essay , and dissolves the boundary ( and difference of purpose ) between the two .
10 A book should be readable and clean , and the design should not obtrude to the extent that it distracts the reader from the author 's thought . ’
11 The advantage of the public law model is that it facilitates the achievement of the statutory purposes and the development of one clearly understood set of general rules and principles .
12 That it does not , requires a different interpretation , and one has been offered by other Eastern European workers , notably by Sokolov ( e.g. 1963 ) , who suggested that the functional significance of the OR is that it facilitates the uptake and processing of environmental information .
13 The advantage of a Loans Fund is that it facilitates the authority 's management of debt .
14 One can then choose to say either that it constitutes the difference by virtue of having a particular internal ‘ feel ’ associated with it , or that it is itself the difference , simpliciter .
15 Winch 's criticism of this way of looking at morality , as we have shown , is that it separates the person who acts from the world in which he acts , and a man has to be shown that it is worthwhile for him to act morally .
16 Where data analysis differs from conventional systems analysis is that it separates the data structures from the applications which use them .
17 The Prison Governors Association has told me clearly that it opposes the Bill on the grounds that the measures that it contains are ’ too draconian ’ — I use its exact words .
18 That 's the part that gives you sustain and that 's the part that you do n't want to depress to the point that it touches the fret , because otherwise the fretted strings do n't have the clearance to run underneath the slide without touching it .
19 It emerged yesterday that officials of COSLA have already told the Scottish Office that it considers the break-even point on costings would come only if the number of new councils was limited to just over 20 and not at 43 as suggested by Touche Ross .
20 In rare circumstances a purchaser may seek to argue that the vendor has breached a warranty to such an extent that it considers the vendor to have repudiated the contract .
21 I started playing the bodhran this summer and I disagree that it distorts the music .
22 if you remember the question that the founding fathers faced was how do you create a government which is strong enough to endure and to defend the nation and defend the country yet a government which is not so strong that it erodes the rights of individuals within it , this is the , the essence of the , the problem of government as , as the founding fathers saw it .
23 But the main weakness of this type of explanation is that it ignores the relationship between the various parts of the state apparatus and their socio-economic environment under both pre- and post-independence regimes .
24 Although agreeing that this approach raises value issues ( his first question ) , he thinks it of limited use in generating a range of curriculum alternatives ( second question ) , that it ignores the effects of choosing particular courses of action ( third question ) , and does not facilitate an examination of teacher 's common sense beliefs and opinions ( fourth question ) .
25 One of the criticisms of reporting convertible debt as a liability is that it ignores the equity rights which are inherent in an issue of convertible debt .
26 More important , perhaps , is the fact that this account of the family may be considered defective in that it ignores the varieties of patterns of family living that are to be found in a modern industrial society .
27 A second problem with compensation theory is that it ignores the period during which any changes are taking place — the transitional period .
28 The weakness of this approach in terms of the British civil service is that it ignores the force of ministerial responsibility .
29 What gives a name as a name its special status is that it represents the transcendence " of the object relative to any particular description that might be given of that object .
30 Does the variation have a function similar to the interpretation placed upon the cremation pottery , that it represents the wearer 's social group ?
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