Example sentences of "[vb -s] [that] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It adds that it expects to quote eps on both a pre-exceptional and a post-extraordinary basis . |
| 2 | Baronworth Investment Services ( 081–518 1218 ) , which prints a weekly update of best buys , runs a special deal with accountants who can not act as direct agents for bond issuers , and splits any commission 50/50 , but emphasises that it does also recommend bonds that pay no commission . |
| 3 | He accepts that it has to be traded off against the 25 per cent improvement in fuel consumption and longer engine life . |
| 4 | Between disquisitions on Chinese opera and Venetian architecture , the story of Marco Polo 's voyage from Venice to Peking is more or less retold , though the narrative is continually being brought to a halt in moments when it half-realises that it does not mean enough . |
| 5 | He eventually concludes that it involved another acquisition — this time the American firm of Keebler in 1974 . |
| 6 | Schulz considers a number of explanations for the phenomenon she describes , and concludes that it arises from men 's prejudice against women and their fear of women 's ‘ natural ’ power or biological superiority . |
| 7 | The sonnet which apparently seeks to contain the truth of the youth 's beauty so as to gain power and control over it , exposes that it destroys and banishes the youth 's beauty . |
| 8 | An organisation might become so widely diversified in the range of products or services it offers that it becomes difficult , if not impossible , for management to integrate all of the organisation under a common objective and within a single ‘ management philosophy ’ and culture . |
| 9 | Dr Thaler thinks that it happens only in trained networks because , as a network learns , its elements organise themselves into colonies that respond specifically to different features of the environment . |
| 10 | Doubtless ICI thinks that it has provided a good home for those stripped assets . |
| 11 | I know that the Labour party thinks that it has lost the election , and is looking for an excuse . |
| 12 | But in spite of clear signals from Virgin Records that it wants to remain independent , speculation was rife that the purchaser might be Sony . |
| 13 | Des Collins , of the Royal Ontario Museum , doubts that it deserves quite such an honour . |
| 14 | In being normative it avows that it does not necessarily conform to everyone 's notion of authority in all detail . |
| 15 | A relation is said to be transitive if the fact that it holds between two elements A and B , and also between B and some third element C , guarantees that it holds between A and C. The relation ’ — is longer than — ’ is thus transitive , because if A is longer than B , and B is longer than C , we can be sure that A is longer than C. In the case of an intransitive relation , on the other hand , the fact that it held between A and B , and between B and C , would entail that it did not hold between A and C. For instance , if A were the father of B , and B the father of C , then A could not be the father of C ; the relation ’ — father of — ’ is thus intransitive . |
| 16 | The report has been attacked by Friends of the Earth , which insists that it represents no new departure . |
| 17 | Dr Mike Mosson , director personnel at the Royal Bank , says the bank has a policy of ‘ positive assistance ’ and ‘ positive encouragement ’ towards women , although he insists that it falls short of positive discrimination . |
| 18 | CSM insists that it did not delay unduly action to reduce Opren dosage in elderly sufferers from arthritis Dr Gemer lists a number of dates on which CSM might have acted earlier — and presumably reduced the toll of sufferers . |
| 19 | But he insists that it follows from it and others of the same kind that knowledge is impossible . |
| 20 | This may be the extreme consequence of a health service which , although it insists that it puts patients first , often does n't do so at all . |
| 21 | The Woolwich insists that it has no plans to introduce them , while the Abbey National believes that fluctuating payments ‘ show their value in weeks like the one we 've just had ’ . |
| 22 | His present celebrity is a fairly recent phenomenon , and he insists that it has not really affected him , although he acknowledges that his appearances on television shows and in magazine profiles have somewhat robbed him of the anonymity which still clings to his ‘ invisible ’ friend , Cartier-Bresson . |
| 23 | But the council insists that it has paid . |
| 24 | While he agrees that it involves more risk , it does not deter him . |
| 25 | Everyone agrees that it makes sense and that it is a long-overdue reform . |
| 26 | Oh it 's lovely dovely They 're all the pins and the veers that it goes through . |
| 27 | The Ecology Building Society argues that it is recreating the original grass-roots feel of a membership-owned mutual society , and says that it involves its members closely in the development of new savings accounts . |
| 28 | Mum says that it took her hours to look up all the verses . |
| 29 | He says that it took officers away from other duties . |
| 30 | Memorex reported a $120m net loss for the nine months to December and the New York rating agency says that it does not expect the fourth quarter net outturn to be much better . |