Example sentences of "[noun] that [vb base] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And , in the end , feckless ones , it is , as we must always say , the songs that prove it all . |
| 3 | Because fruit is not very nutritious in proportion to its bulk , animals that eat it must consume a lot . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Bear in mind that see it but it 's more likely to pass on energy units , because it 's the stronger , you know . |
| 8 | That is why we are committed to provide the opportunity afforded by trust status and to grant it to those health care units that seek it , where they can show that they will use the freedoms that that status involves . |
| 9 | This missile is not particularly clever , but the computers that control it and the radar are . |
| 10 | The common European toad , when it meets a snake , inflates its body and stands on tip-toe , a procedure that makes it appear to have grown suddenly and that seems to baffle most of the snakes that encounter it . |
| 11 | The service enjoys a monopoly position , supplying news to the independent television channels that own it and pay accordingly ( the initial estimate for 1990–91 was £60 million ) . |
| 12 | By the time I see her put on her high heels that make it worse though . |
| 13 | Promises to ‘ delegate ’ have , therefore , to be seen against a long-established trend , with no obvious change in the reasons that underlie it . |
| 14 | In the hunt for both markets and resources , managers invest to create three basic kinds of new advantage that make it more difficult for others to compete . |
| 15 | At the end of the day a company is no more ( but even more importantly , no less ) than the sum of the people and the skills that comprise it . |
| 16 | So are the policies that affect it |
| 17 | Knowledge memorized as a list of facts is of little practical use unless backed up by activities that put it to work . |
| 18 | Knowledge memorized as a list of facts is of little practical use unless backed up by activities that put it to work . |
| 19 | Although this assumption is very likely to be wrong it is still a usable forecast in the sense that it may be no more wrong than forecasts of change that get it wrong . |
| 20 | Help us to cleanse it and hold it safe from the Godless forces of Communism that surround it and threaten it from within . |
| 21 | The rink 's owners say it simply is n't making money — the clubs that use it are trying to form a consortium to keep it open . |
| 22 | A similar paradox can arise with other norms supposedly based at a biological level , but there are cases that avoid it . |
| 23 | ‘ We 're looking for people with enthusiasm that see it as an exciting career and really want to do the job , ’ enthuses Mr Queen . |
| 24 | Beautiful though your age is , many though the intellects that adorn it , and ugly though my age is , cruel many of its leaders , I believe that the period from which I come is to be preferred to yours in this respect . |
| 25 | ‘ We are advising that leasing will be the best option in the first year and our initial impression is that there will be more quota available than sheep that need it , ’ said Sandy Wright of Aberdeen & Northern Marts . |
| 26 | Simmel 's definition of culture is premised upon objectification ; he states that ‘ one of the basic capacities of the spirit is to separate itself from itself — to create forms , ideas , values that oppose it , and only in this form to gain consciousness of itself . |
| 27 | Formal education is important in political socialization , less for its effect on partisan support ( family remains the predominant influence ) than for helping shape awareness of the political system and explicitly or , more often , implicitly , the values that underpin it . |
| 28 | The thing to avoid or at least cut down on is refined sugar and the products that contain it . |
| 29 | If your standard way of eating ( or your slimming diet ) includes a mix of proteins , complex carbohydrate , and fresh fruits at each meal , you are much less likely to eat large amounts of refined sugar or the products that contain it . |
| 30 | Further , sucralose maintains better acid stability than aspartame , which means a longer shelf life for products that use it . |