Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] that it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Personal survival entailed preparing for the possibility that it could n't be stopped . |
| 2 | Ltd. v. Hawkins ( 1859 ) 4 H. & N. 87 was authority for the proposition that it was an ordinary incident of all corporations ( including municipal corporations ) that they might sue for libel ; that case was only authority for the proposition that a trading company might sue for libel by which its property was injured ; ( 3 ) in holding that the Manchester Corporation case was decided per incuriam when there was no basis for so holding and he should have followed it ; ( 4 ) in holding that in bringing an action for libel not alleged to have caused actual damage , no valid distinction could be made between trading corporations and municipal corporations , which ignored the true basis on which a trading corporation was permitted to sue for libel , namely that it had a trading character , the defamation of which might ruin it : South Hetton Coal Co . Ltd. v. North-Eastern News Association Ltd. [ 1894 ] 1 Q.B. 133 , 145 . |
| 3 | The last three cases are also authority for the proposition that it is proper , though not obligatory , for the trial judge to tell the jury that , as well as going to credibility , good character is relevant when considering whether the defendant is the kind of man who is likely to have behaved in the way that the prosecution alleged . |
| 4 | I join my right hon. Friend in paying tribute to the design museum for the standard that it has set . |
| 5 | It is only now , almost five years after the fact , that the US press corps and America 's allies are beginning to see Gramm-Rudman-Hollings for the hoax that it is . |
| 6 | And as we might anticipate from Eliot 's distaste for ‘ equality ’ there was no room for the idea that it was possible to educate the masses : ‘ There is no doubt that in our headlong rush to educate everybody , we are lowering standards … destroying our ancient edifices . ’ |
| 7 | Pop was no longer a community of youth as it had been in the sixties , nor a means of changing society , but a meaningless marketing exercise which deserved to be exposed for the charade that it was . |
| 8 | Keeping your fingers crossed and plunging on is one way of dealing with tricky situations which may gain a reputation for the school that it has firm and strong management but it can have costs in the loss of a number of unhappy families . |
| 9 | Madam er deputy speaker , there is a feeling abroad in the country that an audit certificate is rather like an M O T certificate , it 's good for the minute that it was granted but it is perfectly useless thereafter . |
| 10 | a benefit for the customer that it is a guarantee before nine . |
| 11 | Moreover , it is socially important for the way that it demystifies such manoeuvres . |
| 12 | Will the Minister commend Lagan college in my constituency for the progress that it has made in the past 10 years ? |
| 13 | With this in mind we have undertaken this year a review of the management team and staff resources with the objective of ensuring that LCCIEB is prepared for the challenges that it is likely to meet in the future . |
| 14 | If life has developed for the enjoyment that it brings , and it started with the existence of a single cell , then it is reasonable to suppose that the single cell was capable of the detection of an extremely small measure of ‘ pleasure ’ which it could experience by satisfying some ‘ desire ’ . |
| 15 | Angling for the deal that it has sought for some time now , UK firm IXI Ltd , Cambridge , is starting to cast groundbait all over the water in an attempt to land its catch . |
| 16 | I want it to have the money for the investment that it needs to build the phone service that we require for the 1990s . |
| 17 | However , before the latter can happen ( assuming for the moment that it is a desirable objective ) , it would seem to me that there are at least two major obstacles that must be overcome . |
| 18 | But I 'll let , let's imagine for the moment that it 's still that six fifty . |
| 19 | This may very well be true : let us grant for the moment that it is . |
| 20 | In my judgment , in view of the careful warning contained in the letters , the appointment of the son as a messenger assuming for the moment that it occurred , falls far short of the involvement required to visit upon the plaintiffs the unconscionable conduct of the son . |
| 21 | Consent in such circumstances does not have to be formally registered : it is enough for the regime that it can count , in practice , on the support and co-operation of key sectors of the population . |
| 22 | It may seem a depressing conclusion to Anselm 's struggle for the primacy that it should have ended in a futile resort to forgery . |
| 23 | Claiming that natural processes are carried out by ‘ god ’ and then further claiming that evidence of the process is proof of the independent and prior existence of the ‘ god ’ , is an example of the ‘ circular logic ’ that is sometimes advanced as proof , and often can be quite difficult to expose for the fraud that it is . |
| 24 | It 's often put that hunting is good for the countryside that it 's about controlling foxes the scientific evidence rather puts that to pay the scientific evidence certainly indicates that fox hunting makes very little difference to control of foxes in the countryside and there is some evidence to suggest that fox hunting actually encourages more foxes to breed and that we end up with more foxes , so it seems to be self defeating in that respect . |
| 25 | The 8100 is the more compelling indicator of what might happen to OS/2 2.0 : IBM spent so much money developing both the hardware and a completely new operating environment and set of compilers and utilities for the thing that it had to recoup its investment , come hell or high water , before it could be killed off , despite the fact that within a couple of years , it became clear that what users wanted as a distributed processor was the machine that eventually appeared — fatally too late — as the 9370 . |
| 26 | It is important for the profession that it does . |
| 27 | The use of both was greatest in both declining and growing ( as opposed to stable ) firms , and this was taken as evidence for the view that it is firms facing fluctuating demand for output that make greatest use of temporary workers . |
| 28 | Generally , once a settlor has put property into a settlement he will have alienated the income therefrom for income tax purposes for the period that it is held in trust . |
| 29 | The definition is adopted , of course , not merely for the reason that it gives us a further explanation of the difference between causal items and their effects . |
| 30 | Individuals begin training in a martial art for many different reasons , for fitness , for self-defence or purely for the discipline that it offers . |