Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun sg] that it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Folly was suddenly swept with a wave of gratitude that it had been her assistant who had uncovered her secret , and not the pompous Miss Philimore . |
| 2 | That is to say , the infant must convert stimulation from light rays , sound waves , from the speech stream into the appropriate representational grist if it is to get the kind of information that it requires from the world ; but this gleaning of information does not constitute thought . |
| 3 | It is in the nature of this kind of programme that it deals with several different topics , so the length of individual items is likely to be good for classroom use . |
| 4 | As a result Mossad involves itself in any type of operation that it feels helps Israel or at least deters its enemies . |
| 5 | The Treasury had been so close to running out of money prior to the passage of legislation that it had postponed an auction of $40,000 million in government securities . |
| 6 | There is also much criticism of the FC because of the high degree of autonomy that it enjoys and its legally-enforceable powers that allow for the compulsory purchase of land . |
| 7 | I knew nothing about the realities of proper soldiering , and to counterbalance the tedium and boredom of my small-time life , I surrounded the idea of the French Foreign Legion with a cocoon of glamour that it did n't possess . |
| 8 | Bureaus can also be expected to administer ‘ a corpus of law and regulations that de fines barriers between itself and the sector of industry that it regulates ’ . |
| 9 | Well I felt , I just did n't know what it was but it lacked the sort of charm that it had before . |
| 10 | This gives a sort of impression that it wished to make it easier . |
| 11 | Ghandi , I think , in the early eighties epitomised , to a large degree , and attitude of concern about erm violence , and I think that in some large measure the sort of recognition that it gained , particularly in the awards and so on , had a lot to do with its subject matter as against it 's actual execution , and I think that if it had been at another time , or if the subject matter had n't been erm quite as powerful as that old genius 's life was , I do n't think it would have won the awards . |
| 12 | The US giant , Dun & Bradstreet , is so concerned about this sort of thing that it has banned unions from access to its databases . |
| 13 | apparently a full four-seat mid-engined coupe , something so complicated from the styling and weight balance point of view that it 's never been satisfactorily achieved before . |
| 14 | After long years of thought we are conditioned to respond to this imperceptible stimulus of beauty , and we see the imagery in the small and insignificant , and feel the sensation of ecstasy that it causes . |
| 15 | He said it only because he had forgotten the name she had told him , but the delicious little gurgle of laughter she gave coincided so precisely with another crackle of thunder that it seemed suddenly apt . |
| 16 | The miners used rock drills and compressed air to drive through hard rock and the level had a hydraulic engine , worked by water from the dam at Sun Hush , which had such a head of water that it developed up to fifty horsepower and worked both the water pumps to drain the deep levels and the winding gear . |
| 17 | In the result , their Lordships have humbly advised Her Majesty that the appeal against the ruling of the Court of Appeal that it had no jurisdiction should be dismissed , and that the appeal against the judgment of Barnett J. should be dismissed . |
| 18 | I 've always liked the rain , the city at night , wet streets stretching into winter darkness , a peculiar feeling of freedom that it contains . |
| 19 | As we have seen , the major drawback of means-tested assistance — apart from its non-take-up by some groups of the population and the feeling of inferiority that it breeds — is that cash is withdrawn as income rises . |
| 20 | It is when the physical phenomenon of soil erosion affects people so that they have to respond and adapt their mode of life that it becomes also a social phenomenon . |
| 21 | The machinery of negotiation and consultation in BR is striking in its extent and in the volume of business that it handles . |
| 22 | As with good subwoofers the effect of this extra octave is felt primarily in the enhanced sense of acoustic that it conveys — one simply becomes still more involved in the proceedings , more a part of the audience than an observer . |
| 23 | There was a slight awkward pause and in the tiny fraction of time that it lasted Harriet experienced a stab of pique . |
| 24 | Having stated the case you may legitimately put it into its historical setting in order to show what advance it made on the previous law ; and you may also indicate the trend of development that it started . |
| 25 | Bede says of the episcopal authority of Bishop Wilfrid in the reign of Oswiu that it embraced Northumbrians and Picts as far as the power of Oswiu extended ( HE III , 3 ) , and the Life of Wilfrid that in the reign of Ecgfrith it widened still further so that Wilfrid was bishop of the Saxons ( that is , the Northumbrians ) in the south and the Britons , Scots and Picts in the north ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 21 ) . |
| 26 | The lily grew so fast that each day it filled twice the amount of space that it did the day before . |
| 27 | There is no single requirement for capital but permissible risk exposure is governed for each GEMM by the amount of capital that it has . |
| 28 | This is the amount of food that it takes for a fish to stay the same weight , i.e. just survive . |
| 29 | Syphilis has a reputation in the United Kingdom today quite out of proportion to the amount of infection that it causes . |
| 30 | On the other hand I suspect that you as a magistrate have , have views about the amount of time that it takes up erm in your court , dealing with what must seem to you erm fairly erm minor offenses , and I wonder what you feel about it . |