Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [that] it [adv] " in BNC.

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1 For example , a clause that states that the firm may act as principal or agent may be interpreted as defining the firm 's duties , excluding liability for breach of duty in the event that it should act as principal , or disclosing that it sometimes acts as principal .
2 It would not be an exaggeration to stress the extent to which the nouveau roman has dictated the terms of critical discourse , nor to state that it still acts as the essential reference point in any definition of postmodern aesthetics .
3 Thus it rejected Owen 's bid , revolutionary in concept but illusory in fact , to appropriate all industry into a nationwide industrial democracy : and , by that rejection , but quite unaware that it had done so , left unimpeded the second stage of the Industrial Revolution , the stage that guaranteed that it too would be irreversible , that the continuance of a phenomenal increase in the production of wealth could occur .
4 We look so closely and with such moralistic scrutiny at the religious content of sects , and the habit of mind that imagines that it alone has the full and unique expression of the faith , that we fail to notice what they have to offer .
5 Sainsbury 's sponsored one of the nine categories — Press Advertising — and found that it also received a certificate in this category for its graduate recruitment campaign .
6 The point , so I thought , was to have one in case of emergency , and hope that it never came out of its pouch .
7 It was all-embracing and claimed that it alone spoke authoritatively for the people .
8 IBM has been counting up its hangers-on and finds that it currently has some 40 OEMs doing things like boards and systems with the PowerPC chip .
9 While the fact that a phenomenon was perceived allows one to infer and assert that it actually occurred , the converse is not true : the fact that it was not perceived does not mean that it did not take place .
10 He wondered if she were telling the truth and decided that it hardly mattered .
11 Knowing Bamber Gascoigne , I went to see the show and knew that it really was my cup of tea . ’
12 Berni Miller , chief executive of the Farm Holiday Bureau , says she finds the report encouraging and feels that it broadly reflects the way the industry round the country is moving at the moment , although business in other regions is less seasonal than the West Country .
13 That of the second piece is very similar to the smaller coin , a denarius struck at Rome , and indicates that it too was minted at Rome and then transported to Syria .
14 On Nov. 7 the newly elected Moderator of the Dutch Reformed Church , Pieter Potgieter , confessed his church 's guilt at the role it had played in establishing apartheid and said that it now considered that policy to be wrong .
15 I take that as part of the Labour party 's approach to defence procurement , which is to tick off each individual project , factory or programme whenever it comes before the House and to say that it fully endorses it .
16 They had ceased to be shocked by nudity , and accepted that it now happened mostly on remote beaches where it need n't offend any villagers .
17 Walsh emphasizes how this has advanced women 's position in US psychology , and suggests that it still provides a needed ‘ anchor of outrageousness ’ ( Albin quoted in Walsh 1985 : 24 ) .
18 The insurance fund has since doubled its reserves through a levy on its other members , but fears that it still has insufficient funds to cover its potential obligations .
19 Most d-i-y tiles probably start out with a plain metal straight-edge , but find that it quickly slews off line when scoring a shiny tile surface .
20 It has a well-defined head with compound eyes and antennae ; a thorax bearing three pairs of legs , the result of fusing together three segments ; and a segmented abdomen which , while it no longer has limbs on each segment , retains little stumps as signs that it once possessed them .
21 The problem with it , so far as we can see , is that if the political system is democratic and the state is relatively neutral then how is it that anyone could use the system in such a way as to ensure that it permanently advantaged them to the exclusion of other actors and interests in the system ?
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