Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [that] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It insists that paper can only be recycled four times before it disintegrates , and claims that if Scandinavia stopped producing primary fibre Europe would run out of paper in six months . |
| 2 | Emma can you concentrate but on the other hand I think that we would be missing something if we did n't point out that it has that side to it , alright . |
| 3 | It adds that trademark directories seem to be this year 's most popular scam . |
| 4 | It says that evidence shows a sustained increase in deaths since the reform of social security and the withdrawal of heating additions in 1988 . |
| 5 | It says that helium balloons travel for miles , fall in the oceans and the sea creatures eat it thinking it is food . |
| 6 | It says that Sun needs multiprocessing desktop systems because the Mountain View , California-based company ca n't get competitive performance from uniprocessor implementations of the Texas Instruments Inc SuperSparc RISC , in contrast to Hewlett-Packard 's with its own HP 9000 Series 700 top-end uniprocessor workstations , which use the 99MHz Precision Architecture RISC 7100 . |
| 7 | In the report it says that home repossessions have gone up in the last 12 months . |
| 8 | It says that output grew by 30 per cent between 1982 and 1990 , with the number of companies up from 144,000 in 1980 to 171,000 in 1991 . |
| 9 | It says that rotation of partners does not demonstrate independence . |
| 10 | It says that productivity rose by 5.9 per cent in the year to October . |
| 11 | It says that health and social policies should accept that responsible drinking in pubs is a benefit to society . |
| 12 | It says that unemployment has doubled in its area this year . |
| 13 | It says that reprocessing costs will have to be met in the short term from proceeds of the fossil fuel levy ( a 10 per cent charge on all electricity bills ) and other income . |
| 14 | And because it assumes that gender differences are biologically or culturally fixed , it is especially likely to neglect psychological or social differences between women , to take female subjectivity as defining feminism , and to treat psychology as a form of social action in itself . |
| 15 | Finally , it assumes that self development needs to be done deliberately rather than left to chance . |
| 16 | Such a view ignores the tremendous structural inequalities within society ; it assumes that ethnicity , gender and class do not influence educational achievements and that all schools are of the same character . |
| 17 | A third objection to the confessional approach is that it assumes that religion provides the adequate answer to the dilemmas facing society . |
| 18 | First , it assumes that pragmatism provides the best explanation of how judges actually decide cases . |
| 19 | Last October the IMF pencilled in growth of 2% for 1993 ; now it reckons that output will contract by 2% . |
| 20 | Thus , it shows that man has an inherent ability to overcome his misfortunes and that he is not dependent upon his material success . |
| 21 | At least it shows that warmth is not necessarily the biological bonus that some commentators have chosen to suppose . |
| 22 | It shows that camp is a defensive attitude , a flight from real involvement . |
| 23 | It shows that exclusion is not an inevitable part of having an impairment , but is socially-created and can therefore be socially-changed. it shifts the focus from ‘ adjusting ’ to impairment , onto bringing an end to discrimination . |
| 24 | It shows that time is not a universal quantity which exists on its own , separate from space . |
| 25 | It reveals that man is essentially cast in the mode of being-in-the-world , and moreover that the world itself can be made sense of only in the context of man 's own " projects " . |
| 26 | Moscow has said that it recognises that GRID 's potential exists in the effective use of advanced methods of collecting and analyzing the results of land , aerial and space monitoring of the environment , such monitoring being " an important element in early forecasts of ecological catastrophes " . |
| 27 | It recognises that success in this new business area will be standards-led and so is backing what it predicts will emerge as the winners . |
| 28 | It recognises that money has a time value by discounting future cash flows at an appropriate discount rate . |
| 29 | It recognises that competition is not an end in itself by providing a procedure whereby , although certain agreements or arrangements may prevent , restrict or distort competition , they may none the less improve the production or distribution of goods or promote technical or economic progress to the benefit of consumers . |
| 30 | Rather than measure degrees of public ( mis ) understanding against some yardstick of ‘ real ’ scientific knowledge , it recognises that science and technology have and implicate a variety of publics , who , in using science at work , in managing their personal lives , or as consumers , will have different kinds of contacts with science , different levels of understanding of its language and ideas , and different conceptions of science and technology which will be related to other aspects of their lives . |