Example sentences of "that it [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The day after their attack , the American embassy in Thailand gave warning that it knew of a ‘ credible threat ’ to American , British and Australian interests in Bangkok . |
| 2 | The linguistic explanation of legare as a general term helps , then , to explain some serious awkwardnesses , but it is not clear that it disposes of all entirely . |
| 3 | Try crashing an electron into a gatepost and you might find that it decides of its own accord to orbit round the nearest dandelion . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , since 1915 other theories of gravity have been advanced , though the great majority of scientists today accept Einstein 's General Theory and the explanation that it offers of Mercury 's precession . |
| 5 | Our dilemma is that it speaks of a level of separation from the world , the flesh and human reality which has already proved far too harmful to the churches in general and for women in particular for us to consider returning to it . |
| 6 | There is a kind of contradiction in classical structuralist writing which attributes to literature a non-referential self-sufficiency supposed to incarnate language 's very being , and yet which continues itself to employ a language whose referential scientificity ignores the very qualities that it speaks of . |
| 7 | We , in this country and indeed in this house , can be very deeply complacent when indeed we should be ever vigilant about our democracy and the very precious forms that it takes of which one was the er public inquiry stage of the erm boundary commission procedures . |
| 8 | It is simply a fact that truth can not be tolerant , that it admits of no compromises or limitations … |
| 9 | Prof Wilkinson points out that the international community might not decry unilateralist intervention provided that it approves of the outcome . |
| 10 | As we shall see , the reversal remains inadequate in that it conceives of homophobia in mainly psychosexual terms , and phobic ones at that . |
| 11 | The theory , as eventually set forth ( 1868 ) , was constituted by two theses : that the generative material comes from all over the parent body or bodies , and that it consists of minute ‘ gemmules ’ budded off from every part . |
| 12 | The advantage they have over individuals is that , although each practice only contains a part of the complex phenomenon which is society , each one is a ‘ whole ’ in the sense that it consists of a variety of different kinds of parts , all of which are interrelated . |
| 13 | Both Kelsen and Aquinas acknowledge the role of determination and subsumption and both regard positive law as normative in the sense that it consists of precepts intimating how men ought to behave under particular circumstances . |
| 14 | An alternative is that it consists of a few per cent silicates , all the rest being iron-rich compounds such as FeS and FeO , which have densities between those of metallic iron and silicates . |
| 15 | It is no improvement merely to add a label , saying — taking an example at random — that left for Scotland yesterday morning is a verb phrase if by that we simply mean that it consists of a certain sequence of word classes recognized as frequently occurring . |
| 16 | ( 2 ) Rewrite the extract on p. 77 beginning " Since Etherege … " , so that it consists of several short sentences . |
| 17 | I mean if you take the regulatory we did it with today that it consists of the Bank of England , the Securities and Investment Board , twenty four organisations of the S I B S , siblings you might call them er under it , the Building Societies Commission , the police , the serious fraud office , the Department of Trade and Industry , the London Stock Exchange , the Inland Revenue , five recognised supervisory bodies , all those dealing with er auditors and the others , it 's chaos er and nobody knows who is responsible for what and in that chaos you get overlapping decisions er er and conflicting regulations , everybody tries to ensure themselves by regulating too much er er and it 's a situation which drastically needs simplification , but we do n't have any proposals for strengthening and making that work er er frame work more effective , to back up er this er simple proposal today . |
| 18 | Recently we have been working on other corpora , including a 26-million word corpus , much larger than the LOB Corpus , but more restricted , in that it consists of newspaper reports . |
| 19 | Assembling our find on deck we found that it consisted of a case of 10,000 cigarettes and several cases of spirits . |
| 20 | ‘ The idea I have in view whilst I make the demonstration ’ may be of a particular right-angled triangle with sides of a certain length , but I may , nevertheless , be sure that it holds of all right-angled triangles if , by not mentioning the ways in which it differs from them , I use this one to stand for them all . |
| 21 | When he tried to swallow the lump in his throat he found that it tasted of beck-water . |
| 22 | A woman in a provincial restaurant ate a steak and complained that it tasted of cardboard . |
| 23 | Without impugning the motives of any believer in this , I point out that it reeks of a vile and dangerous racism . |
| 24 | Leapor is unlikely to mean that the meat is rotten or poisoned , only that it smells of game . |