Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] that it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The programme is open to people who have been mulling over an idea for some time and experts will give it the commercial analysis it needs and , if it stands up , the business planning and search for funding that it merits . |
| 2 | As well as the points mentioned there are the usual claims for Latin that it improves competence in English , facilitates the learning of other languages and so on . |
| 3 | That humans also fail on these sentences was regarded as support that it reflected how humans process ambiguity although arguments exist against this inference ( Briscoe , 1987 ) . |
| 4 | Finally it raised an action for declarator that it was not liable to purchase tax on such stationery and for recovery of past payments . |
| 5 | Clive had a stammer and had learnt through regression that it had originated when he had been the subject of bullying at school . |
| 6 | PC Week columnist Will Zachmann writes : ‘ … a good hard look at Windows NT leaves little room for optimism that it will deliver useful symmetric multi-processing capabilities anytime soon , either on the desktop or on a server . |
| 7 | Graham looked towards Laidlaw for confirmation that it was Barak . |
| 8 | I was anxious that Ivy should read it in manuscript , for fear that it might not be published in her lifetime : it was a story of family tyranny that must appeal to her . |
| 9 | Asquith , like Campbell-Bannerman , was personally , if somewhat indolently , in favour of reform , but also like his predecessor was extremely cautious about pursuing it , for fear that it would lose as many votes from middle-class taxpayers as it might gain from others . |
| 10 | Other countries apparently more successful than us , never seem to mind change , the British do for fear that it diminishes their lot in life . |
| 11 | Therefore it does not seem to be necessary to encourage people who suffer from Chemical Dependency also to give up cigarette smoking ( except on grounds of general health ) for fear that it will spark off the compulsion to return to use of the original addictive drug of choice . |
| 12 | However , on Jan. 13 , 1990 , Ankara University decided not to withdraw the ban on headscarves for fear that it might provoke unrest on campus . |
| 13 | United Biscuits was one of the few fallers after confirmation that it had sold its Terry 's chocolate division to Kraft of the U.S. in a deal worth £220 million . |
| 14 | The Home Secretary is to abolish the means-related unit fines system after criticism that it is unfair . |
| 15 | Nottinghamshire has a national reputation for work that it er does in sports and arts . |
| 16 | The Ober Gabelhorn-Wellenkuppe traverse , the most frequented route up the mountain , is a very traditional climb , the kind of route that it 's easy to imagine Victorians accompanied by their Swiss guides tackling : balancing along the snow arête , confronting the Grand Gendarme and cutting steps up the steep summit ridge . |
| 17 | In any event , few parents and teachers would be satisfied with a system with such weak powers of discrimination that it could detect nothing more detailed than changes that take two years to occur . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I 've always liked the rain , the city at night , wet streets stretching into winter darkness , a peculiar feeling of freedom that it contains . |
| 20 | I 've done some checking around and have found out that it is n't just pubescent , pizza-faced boys who have made the magazine the best-selling pile of shite that it is . |
| 21 | Sir Cranley Onslow , chairman of the 1922 Committee , announced that the Executive would be meeting to make arrangements for the second ballot amid conjecture that it , too , would discuss Mrs Thatcher 's position . |
| 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 | The answer given to the first certified question was in line with those pronouncements , so even though Viscount Dilhorne was of opinion that the evidence fell short of establishing that Mr. Occhi had consented to the taking of the £6 it was a matter of decision that it made no difference whether or not he had so consented . |
| 24 | It is characteristic of faith that it can not remain in two minds ; it can not leave things in the air . |
| 25 | Boris Becker recently expressed the view that there was too much money in tennis and that it was ruining the game — a view of course that it is much easier to make objectively once you have £5m in the bank . |
| 26 | The next question under the Convention was to determine what kind of legal regime would be acceptable under Article 8(2) , assuming of course that it could meet the requirement of being ‘ in accordance with law ’ . |
| 27 | The reality of life is of course that it is the bad news man who should be the most prized . |
| 28 | In the example quoted , the first line leaves unstated the place to which Israel is to return ; the B-line specifies the full significance of " return " in A. It is true of course that it is not only that the B-line is more specific than the A-line but also that the A is more specific than the B. Such cases do not negate the parallelism of greater precision ; they are a subset of the examples of our feature . |
| 29 | He could indeed hear breathing , though it was true of course that it might be his own , since everything about himself seemed to be happening so far away for the moment . |
| 30 | Not of course that it was ever on the cards . ’ |