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

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1 It transpired that it had been syphoned off into private businesses .
2 This view avoids the necessity of explaining how an increase in complexity can occur by denying that it happens , but only at the expense of supposing not only that there is a minute homunculus in the egg but that within that homonculus there is an egg containing a still more minute homonculus , and so on , in Chinese box fashion , ad infinitum — or , if not ad infinitum , at least back to Eve , who carried within her a sufficient number of successively smaller homunculi to account for all the future generations of mankind .
3 The government , denying that it held any political prisoners , ordered the women to end their protest , saying that opposition supporters were taking advantage of it to cause unrest .
4 Whatever criticisms may be made of the STV there is no denying that it has proved viable in its own fashion in twenty-two general elections in the Republic of Ireland .
5 The Halifax , Britain 's biggest building society , also disclosed that it had set aside a £20m provision against its loans to the collapsed London docklands developer Kentish Property Group .
6 But in the immediate wake of the October 19 crash , IBM 's most serious rival , Comdisco , disclosed that it had lost $100m in a business that had nothing to do with its main occupation of leasing and trading IBM equipment .
7 Eventually , on Feb. 25 , the Israeli Foreign Ministry disclosed that it had formally requested additional US military aid worth US$1,000 million to offset defence costs incurred as a result of the crisis .
8 It was the only object , apart from the books , which reflected a personal taste ; Dalgliesh hardly supposed that it had been provided by a Government agency .
9 Some commentators suggest that it represents a key political platform for the government in coming years .
10 We do not know how this activated state is subsequently maintained throughout the healing process , although the final overrun and pile-up suggest that it takes some time to switch off .
11 It is covered with gold leaf into which is etched a pattern of oak and bay leaves — and a medieval North Italian inscription , the surviving words of which suggest that it said : ‘ In this little goblet one often acquires happiness ’ .
12 What evidence there is on sett size suggest that it does n't necessarily increase with group size , and certainly the four individuals in the Brighton group would hardly seem to need a complex consisting of more than a kilometre of tunnels .
13 We suggest that it enables the parents to pay a compliment to close friends by inviting them to be godparents .
14 Accounts of their trial suggest that it took the form of a political witch-hunt , with the intention of intimidating other critics of the government .
15 The examples listed earlier suggest that it covers a vast variety of relations ; for example the relation between capitalists and workers is said to be one of oppression , while that between factions of the ruling class might be competition .
16 The climactic series of explosions of 27 August added volumes of fresh material to the already huge eruption column above the volcano , and some estimates suggest that it rose as much as eighty kilometres into the air .
17 Our journeys on the whiteboard suggest that it holds the key to our concepts of beauty .
18 Now , sources close to the receivers of the H-M Agency of Los Angeles suggest that it has been conclusively proved that she was involved in the massacre at Dead Rat , Arizona , last year , during which a peaceful force of process-servers were murdered by members of the Maniax gangcult , who then razed the community to the ground .
19 It is famous for its tremendous resources and ability to get the job done , but other firms suggest that it has a less than enviable success rate .
20 The differences found between them may throw light on certain rarely remarked properties of the object which suggest that it has a major role in the development of cognitive abilities and the ways in which the world is perceived , understood and lived in .
21 Experiments suggest that it has a fluid consistency and that there is movement of the liquid molecules within the membrane .
22 It needed a substantial amount of advertising , and the figures suggest that it did n't get it .
23 There are , for instance , several conflicting claims concerning the function of the Japanese suffix -wa : some suggest that it is an obligatory marker of topic ( this claim is implicit in Li , 1976 : 465 ) ; others suggest that it marks given information ( see 5.1.2. below for an explanation of given vs new information ) .
24 ‘ Then I suggest that it begins working .
25 Popular understandings of subjectivity , psychology 's object , suggest that it escapes rationality .
26 It adds that it expects to quote eps on both a pre-exceptional and a post-extraordinary basis .
27 In a surprise move , NEC Corp has approached Convex Computer Corp and proposed that it market the Convex C3 minisupercomputers in Japan to plug the gap below its own SX3 supercomputers .
28 It is natural to walk or run them and anyone who has done this will know that it becomes more of a rhythmic dance when perfectly attuned .
29 She did not know that it had been spiked with tranquillisers until she woke up some time later .
30 How would it know that it had to lose weight ?
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