Example sentences of "and that its " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 She repeatedly says that inflation is too high and that its reduction must be the Government 's overriding priority .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 ?
10 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 ) .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 To outsiders it seemed that the regime was becoming unstable and that its survival appeared more and more doubtful .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 He believes fans would have preferred a more lavish packaging for ‘ Bizarro ’ and that its fierce edge might have been a reaction to signing with RCA .
18 The scientific world is beginning to discover what metaphysical teachers have known for centuries , that our world is not composed of any matter at all and that its basic component is a kind of energy or force .
19 Saunders partly deflects criticism of this sort by putting forward the dual state thesis as an ‘ ideal-type ’ , claiming that it is a research strategy rather than an account of reality , and that its aim is to develop a framework which suggests research questions and which can be evaluated analytically but not empirically .
20 For the conclusion reached by Dunham 's team was that the Sun has indeed been shrinking and that its radius — or , strictly speaking , half the measured angular diameter — has contracted by 0.34 seconds of arc over 264 years .
21 Tom Graves has speculated that the wooden pole may have been the equivalent of the standing stone — a ‘ needle of wood ’ — and that its action was encouraged , or primed , by the performance of fertility rites .
22 Mr Evans-Lombe said that it was plain that Mrs Wordingham had intended that her husband should receive the income under her 1989 will , and that its omission was the result of a mistake by the solicitor in carrying out his instructions .
23 We then considered its claim to be scientific , humanistic and atheistic ; concluding that it was more accurate to describe it as an ideology than a science , that its humanitarianism was very real yet flawed , and that its atheism was fundamental to an understanding of the ideology .
24 By the thin moonlight that filtered in through the frosted glass on the front door , Liz could see that he held a silenced gun , and that its calibre was high .
25 Abrams argued that traditional neighbourliness will not survive and that its passing is not to be deplored , because it was so often a reaction to adverse social conditions .
26 Bunyan replied that he could find no justification for the Prayer Book in the Scriptures and that its use was an impediment to man in making known his condition to God .
27 In particular , by stressing that law must itself contain an element of substantive justice , and that its validity can not be purely formal , such theories clearly show that law can not be isolated from its context .
28 One theory has it that the island was long ago to the west of its present position and that its north-south axis then lay in a more north-easterly direction .
29 He subsequently concluded that , in spite of his own intentions , it was still too deeply coloured by the thought of Kierkegaard and Heidegger , that it gave faith a wrong kind of priority over revelation in the arrangement of its material , and that its account of faith was more Existentialist than Christian .
30 My argument thus far is that medicine bases its claim to be a profession on several grounds and that its claim is honoured by the public on similar grounds .
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