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

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1 It is not religion that drives it , or theory ; and the rejection of Marxism now looks , in retrospect , like an inevitable part of its natural growth .
2 But Christianity is the only religion that makes it clear that only one god exists .
3 In this particular instance it is representational , as the ‘ performance mode ’ is , for the child is required to describe in action whatever the teacher suggests ( as in the example above , ‘ So you go to the bathroom and turn the doorknob ’ ) , but the ‘ exercise mode ’ has other characteristics that give it a special mental quality .
4 It was a headline that did it , I think I put something like , ‘ Like Lambrettas To The Slaughter ’ …
5 She flashed me a glance that made it clear there was some backbone in there , it was just the training that made her act like a dipstick .
6 And , in the end , feckless ones , it is , as we must always say , the songs that prove it all .
7 They are not sufficient to justify the portrayal of Scotland as being out on a limb from the rest of Britain , either in its voting behaviour or the thinking that produces it .
8 It is important to have some clear basic understanding of the nature of bereavement and the grief that follows it .
9 Because fruit is not very nutritious in proportion to its bulk , animals that eat it must consume a lot .
10 To the animals that do it , there is nothing particularly special about using tools : it is a piece of behaviour much like any other that the animal performs .
11 He despises the human race and the combinations that make it tick ; the human race in its present state , he 'd qualify — he 'd like to send us all back to nursery school — so he has to behave as unlike his fellow beings as he can . ’
12 Great houses did not of course cease to be built ; on the contrary , almost as many were erected in the nineteenth century as a whole as in the three centuries that preceded it put together .
13 Unfortunately , the SPD , like Labour , has been nervous in calling for a complete recasting of public financing and altering both tax and expenditure profiles to fit with a post-cold war world while attempting to relate to an electorate that believes it is paying too many direct and indirect taxes as well as ever-rising social security and health insurance payments .
14 It was what was within the bird the force that gave it such power , such vitality . ’
15 Resolving medical problems , admonishing the transgressors of rules , arbitrating disputes , cracking jokes with a deadpan expression on his face , Guruji is clearly the hub of this community and the force that holds it together .
16 I provided the calm , the cleanliness , the order and nourish-ment that made it possible for him to work .
17 Gay sex does n't deserve the obsession that surrounds it .
18 The voice spread like ink through blotting paper and seeped across his mind until it reached the nerve that knew it to be Bella 's .
19 Indeed the only reason that modern living things are able to survive in the presence of oxygen , is that they contain a variety of compounds that prevent it from reacting with materials such as fats : compounds that include vitamins C and E , and uric acid .
20 Blue eyes that made it hard to look away .
21 There was a silence , which told him he 'd scored a bull's-eye , and then an over-bright tone in her reply that confirmed it .
22 What is true is that the effects of a mutation on the form of the resulting organism can not be predicted from a knowledge of the agent that produced it .
23 Bear in mind that see it but it 's more likely to pass on energy units , because it 's the stronger , you know .
24 Dostoevsky 's home-made word does n't appear in Crime and Punishment ; it has been left behind ( unlike the mind that coined it ) in the much more theoretical Notes from Underground .
25 Clearly there is a relation between the body and the mind that inhabits it .
26 If we can not really be sure about the way this Christianization of the urban population was brought about , we can , however , discern some of the anxieties that accompanied it .
27 The terms of the agreement are determined by the parties that concluded it ( in Upper Silesia the Allies ) , and not by the subsequently emergent State .
28 I joining the company something like that and if they did when you do join a department that does it you have a great sense of belonging , because some of the things you 'll do for the training will be allocated to other members round a team , yeah , all this sort of stuff and it becomes very easy , takes a monkey off your back as it were , you do n't have to worry .
29 The original documentation similarly remains with the original department that created it .
30 At All Saint 's church there 's a chance to take part in the 800 year old Japanese tea ceremony … a mystic ritual that means it can take an hour and a half to have a cuppa .
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