Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | It was a headline that did it , I think I put something like , ‘ Like Lambrettas To The Slaughter ’ … |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is important to have some clear basic understanding of the nature of bereavement and the grief that follows it . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It was what was within the bird the force that gave it such power , such vitality . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I provided the calm , the cleanliness , the order and nourish-ment that made it possible for him to work . |
| 11 | Gay sex does n't deserve the obsession that surrounds it . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Bear in mind that see it but it 's more likely to pass on energy units , because it 's the stronger , you know . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Clearly there is a relation between the body and the mind that inhabits it . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The original documentation similarly remains with the original department that created it . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And I was deeply shocked at the unanimous vote that brought it about . |
| 22 | She lay , her eyes closed and smiling , surrendered to death like the moth , symbol of passionate love , which yields its life to the taper that lures it . |
| 23 | These will have had a firm foundation in play and the talk that accompanies it , particularly if the learner has had the social and material opportunities provided by playgroup or nursery school . |
| 24 | Michele was answering with a brevity that made it abundantly clear that he was disinclined to talk about the sculptor . |
| 25 | ‘ I have never enjoyed the business totally — I hate the artificiality that surrounds it . ’ |
| 26 | It was spanned by a narrow hump-backed bridge of the picturesque variety that is guaranteed to damage any car that uses it . |
| 27 | In these the water flow is from end to end or from middle to side , respectively , the clear water leaving by weirs or troughs , and the sludge on the bottom being removed by mechanical scraping gear that carries it to a sump from which it can be pumped away . |
| 28 | Winter had closed the eyelids of the land and the snow that covered it was ill-fitting and dingy like a second-hand shroud . |
| 29 | Well we were taken up to the standby boat which is I mean every vessel in the North Sea , every rig and installation has a boat that circles it , non stop , twenty four hours a day and I mean that The standby boat on Piper I mean it was the the two inflatable boats off it that picked everybody up , and most folk up , and one of them was lost , they lost two of the crew off that . |
| 30 | The shark , which attacked the man as he swam in a bay north of Sydney on his honeymoon , rammed the fishing boat that netted it yesterday and disgorged John Ford was grabbed by the 16ft shark as he was diving east of Byron Bay , 370 miles north of Sydney , police said . |