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

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31 It submits to Parliament reports which carry considerable weight , and its recommendations are taken very seriously by the departments and organizations that it examines .
32 Although Labour was defeated in the General Election of 1924 , the election which saw the publication of the ‘ Zinoviev Letter ’ with the allegation that it revealed the Communist intention to stir the masses of workers to revolution through using the Labour Party and the Anti-Soviet treaty , its vote increased by more than one million , or about 24 per cent , even though the number of Labour MPs was reduced from 191 to 151 .
33 If , however , I omit to do something with the result that it suffers injury to health which results in death , we think that a charge of manslaughter should not be an inevitable consequence , even if the omission is deliberate .
34 The only dish she made that we could tolerate was syrup tart , which we praised extravagantly , with the result that it became our unhealthy staple diet .
35 No pay was given for Bank Holidays , with the result that it took weeks to recover from the loss of income .
36 This is in contrast to the situation in capitalist countries where education reflects the authoritarian and exploitative values of the factory system with the result that it helps to reproduce the capitalist system of production which is inherently inefficient .
37 For instance , in the Finale Paray drives the music very hard from start to finish , with the result that it comes over as something genuinely exciting as well as grand and loud .
38 Suppose that the actual inflation rate is 10 per cent and that this has been expected by all economic agents , with the result that it has been fully accounted for in wage bargaining , in the activities of borrowing and lending and in the tax system .
39 The stock was always conceived as essentially complementary to the house 's fine interior , with the result that it retained a domestic atmosphere .
40 If tourism is to be properly recognised as Scotland 's largest employer , and recognised for the very considerable revenue that it brings into the country , it must first be given higher priority within the Scottish Office itself .
41 Circumcision as a rite had been performed in Israel for many centuries , but it was only with the exile that it assumed the character of a covenantal sign between God and his chosen people .
42 Moscow has increased the number of countries with which it has commercial dealings from four in 1960 to over twenty by the end of the 1970s , but the volume of trade has not exceeded $30 million with more than eight ( Argentina , Brazil , Uruguay , Peru , Bolivia , Mexico , Colombia and Nicaragua ) and it is only with Argentina , Brazil and Nicaragua that it has risen above the $100 million level .
43 Hewlett-Packard Co is racing down the object-oriented programming road and last week it inaugurated a distributed-object-computing programme that it says will accelerate its efforts to develop and deliver a distributed object computing environment for heterogeneous networked systems .
44 Because of the uncertainty of the outcome of future attempts to develop and test a research programme , it can never be said of any programme that it has degenerated beyond all hope .
45 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 .
46 Taylor Walker is benefiting from a customer care programme that it believes will enable it to compete with its European counterparts .
47 It is such a landmark that it seems a shame to let it pass without making a permanent reminder of this important occasion .
48 Bearing in mind that it takes approximately 12 weeks from planting to flowering , it is possible to grow bulbs of many species and varieties to flower at the same time for a spectacular display , and also plant for a succession of flowers if potting up is carefully timed .
49 If this is the case , the changes of the past 30 years may be the first signs of a return to the more traditional population distribution of pre-industrial Britain , but it must also be borne in mind that it takes a very long time to shift major population patterns , and that the present trends may only be a veneer on an underlying and more permanent structure .
50 ‘ So far everything that we 've done we 've done keeping in mind that it has to be played live .
51 Argument has been addressed to me as to how that sum should fall to be represented in the damages awarded , bearing in mind that it has been substantially discharged by an interim payment and that it will not inure to any log term benefit of the plaintiff .
52 There is no doubt in her mind that it has all been worthwhile .
53 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 .
54 Reed was also an early casualty , down 4p to 717p following confirmation that it has bought Robert Maxwell 's Official Airline Guides for 417m dollars ( £275m ) .
55 Reed was also an early casualty , down 4p to 717p following confirmation that it has bought Robert Maxwell 's Official Airline Guides for 417m dollars ( £275m ) .
56 Reed was also an early casualty , down 5p to 716p following confirmation that it has bought Robert Maxwell 's Official Airline Guides for 417m dollars ( £275m ) .
57 Versions of Locke 's doctrine of cultural relativity are still staunchly upheld by many professional anthropologists of high repute , though my demonstration that it incorporates the traditional proposition that the opposition " we " / " they " is the equivalent of " human being " / " monster " should serve as a warning .
58 The government 's announcement this spring that it planned to phase in the seventeen and a half per cent tax over twelve months brought pensioners out onto the streets .
59 It 's been argued by it 's supporters that it ushered in an era of peace .
60 What Labour needs above all is the network of working-class activists , sympathisers and supporters that it had in workplaces and on housing estates even as recently as 20 years ago .
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