Example sentences of "[conj] that its " in BNC.

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1 Which is not to say , he wrote , that the present project has any value over and above the others , mine and those of everyone else , I have been into the question of value already and will not return to it now , has any value or that its outcome has any value , I have to repeat this , simply that now , for me , today , after the things I have done and given the time left me , it is the most important thing , it is what , from the time I first picked up a pencil and made a mark on a piece of paper , everything has logically led up to .
2 The general conclusion which we have reached is that there is no clear evidence in any of the figures we have examined that the abolition of capital punishment has led to an increase in the homicide rate , or that its reintroduction has led to a fall .
3 She would refuse to allow that the matter was serious , or that its consequences could affect her profoundly .
4 Few , however , would dispute either the inevitability of the process or that its effect on the 320 million European citizens will be real and lasting .
5 Men of science in the nineteenth century were increasingly becoming specialists ; but the eminent were often interested in other things as well , and hoped that these were not irrelevant to their science , or that its methods were foreign to them .
6 The UK 's relative lack of success in exploiting innovative technology is not , therefore , because the country 's engineers and scientists lack good innovative ideas or that its R&D is not of the highest quality .
7 This is of course not possible , and we should rather conclude that any intermediate , formed by the initial attack of Cl - on , must have no significant absorption in the spectral range studied , or that its concentration is never so great that it contributes significantly to the spectrum .
8 Some archivists/records managers have shown concern over the loss of correspondence between historically important people ; others that e-mail encourages ‘ garbage ’ or that its tenor discourages sufficient development of ideas between contributors .
9 In 1844 Youatt described two types of Sussex : one closer to the Devon stock , being smaller , light and agile , the other larger and more like a Hereford except that its coat colour was whole .
10 The War Wagon fights in hand-to-hand combat in the same way as a chariot , except that its crew are armed with a variety of experimental weaponry as described below .
11 Symbolic algebra is the same as arithmetic algebra except that its operations are universally application : a — b has meaning for all a , b .
12 This has exactly the same internal format as a FONT except that its ID number is unique and not , as was the case with the FONT resource , the result of a calculation based on the font number , the size and a constant .
13 It was a large , flat-bottomed sailing boat rather like a Thames barge or , as tourists were over-prone to comment , a College houseboat , except that its cabins were all above deck and all aft .
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15 But the SNP is only too aware that most of its dormant support lies within Labour 's Scottish ranks and that its electoral fortunes are constrained by Labour 's dominance north of the Border .
16 She repeatedly says that inflation is too high and that its reduction must be the Government 's overriding priority .
17 UK PAPER , which is recommending a £263million takeover bid from the Finnish Metsa-Serla group , has forecast that its profits for 1989 will be up from £13.9million to £15million and that its surplus land has been revalued at £16.9million , which is equal to 17.4p a share .
18 UK PAPER , which is recommending a £263million takeover bid from the Finnish Metsa-Serla group , has forecast that its profits for 1989 will be up from £13.9million to £15million and that its surplus land has been revalued at £16.9million , which is equal to 17.4p a share .
19 Mr Smith made clear that Labour 's first response would be to seek entry to the exchange rate mechanism of the European Monetary System and that its spending priorities would be pensions and child poverty .
20 All NATO members now broadly accept that the alliance will continue to be their main defence against a threat to Western Europe ; that its integrated military command will still control any military operations there ; and that its commander will continue to be an American .
21 But we have also seen that he denies that such knowledge is innate and that its self-evidence arises from its being imprinted on our minds prior to all experience .
22 Some have maintained that the Liberal Party was being rapidly undermined before the First World War and that its decline was almost inevitable , others , however , assume that it was the First World War which was responsible for the decline of a vapid Liberal Party — the divisions within Liberal ranks creating the political vacuum into which the Labour Party slipped .
23 How do we know that sexual reproduction is responsible for the relative uniformity of species , and that its absence is responsible for the discontinuities between them ?
24 We can deduce that what an animal does depends on its state , and that its state depends on its past history of reinforcement and on its genetic propensities ( for example , its propensity to be reinforced by food ) .
25 DISENCHANTMENT with the Iranian revolution may be growing in cities such as Teheran , but at the school where the Ayatollah Khomeini lectured revolutionaries , few doubt that the Islamic system is a success and that its scholars are the best qualified to rule the country .
26 It therefore recommended that the WEA should continue as a teaching as well as an organising body , while suggesting that some increase in financial contributions from voluntary sources ‘ would materially help to preserve its independence and its status as a voluntary body ’ — a hint that the WEA could not expect to rely too heavily on government or local authority aid and that its members and friends must continue to dig deep into their pockets .
27 Considering that Russia had not engaged in naval warfare for some 50 years and that its industrial economy had been almost totally destroyed during the war , it came as a considerable shock to discover that it was capable of building such a strikingly graceful , and powerful , class of warship .
28 To outsiders it seemed that the regime was becoming unstable and that its survival appeared more and more doubtful .
29 The founding father of modern Mithraic studies , Franz Cumont , showed that Roman Mithraism was a continuation of the Iranian religion of Zarathustra and that its origins can be traced back to the Hindus , for in the Vedic hymns we encounter the name Mitra .
30 It was taken for granted that education was beneficial to those who received it , and that its universal provision was one of the great social improvements that were to mark the end of the war .
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