Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [that] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone agrees that it makes sense and that it is a long-overdue reform . |
| 2 | Because , although it 's before nine erm , the next morning erm you 're actually giving them now more lead time , you 've given them another day because an , sometime tomorrow you know , if it gets there at two o'clock and it 's off-loading in in in at the bay and someone checks that it 's been received and then someone makes a phone call to tell them it 's there , and then they 're doing something else , and then they come down and have a look at it , how many boxes do you think are sitting on loading bays that do n't get looked at for a day or two , or three , or four , five when they 've had a next day service ? |
| 3 | The report has been attacked by Friends of the Earth , which insists that it represents no new departure . |
| 4 | While The Excursion ( 1814 ) contains a Pastor and a Churchyard , the Christianity it offers is still minimal ; Wordsworth himself says that it illustrates ‘ the Bible of the Universe , as it speaks to the ear of the intelligent ’ . |
| 5 | Obviously you need to appeal to the Regional Committee if as a branch you 're not happy , but this rule should n't need to be bent , we should have one that is ours to be used for branches , the General Secretary himself says that it 's happened on several occasions so let's be a real trade union , not one that borrows from Peter to pay Paul , let's have a proper rule for branches . |
| 6 | Endorsement of the Ericsson approach has come from the Deutsche Bundespost Telekom , which says that it plans to use it as the basis for a pilot network . |
| 7 | IBM Corp has been sued by E-Systems Inc , which alleges that it broke a contract for electronics work on an Air Force aircraft : according to the Dallas Morning News , E-Systems is seeking $65m in damages from IBM ; the dispute involves the Talon Combat II aircraft , which IBM is building with Lockheed Corp ; E-Systems signed a 1988 agreement to integrate and install equipment on the plane as an IBM subcontractor . |
| 8 | Although they vary either in their particular concerns or in the foci of their campaigns — even the Responsible Society , which states that it does not take part in demonstrations and public protests , campaigns through its literature — it was ‘ permissiveness ’ or their particular interpretation or conception of permissiveness that was the galvanizing force behind their development . |
| 9 | An authority in the state of destination which finds that it lacks jurisdiction to execute the letter of request , for example because the defendant is not resident in its area , must forward ‘ the documents and antecedents of the case to the authority of the State [ i.e. within the same state ] which has jurisdiction ’ . |
| 10 | The chamber is reasonably sized , which means that it does n't have to be emptied very often when used for small d-i-y tasks , and it will also clean up after bigger jobs such as wood planing . |
| 11 | The predictable component , g , does not appear in equation ( 4.14 ) , which means that it does not influence real output . |
| 12 | I was glad then that he did not know the subject of the talk I had just given at the conference — the possibility that space-time was finite but had no boundary , which means that it had no beginning , no moment of Creation . |
| 13 | When built 1622 was equipped with continuous stepboards , which means that it had two stepboards per side to allow for entry from ground level . |
| 14 | It was New Year 's Eve and the midnight sky was still bright : Punta Arenas is at 53°S , and although on a similar longitude to Halifax has been shunted , by Professor Dowd 's descendants , into the same time zone as New York — all of which means that it stays light for a great deal longer than in most cities , and we celebrated the coming of the New Year in almost broad daylight . |
| 15 | And , in passing , it is worth noting that French ( I have not tried the Danish imitation ) Port-Salut makes an excellent cooking cheese with a low melting point , which means that it turns creamy but not rubbery . |
| 16 | There is no difference between government coverage and party coverage in this respect except that government has more initiative in determining the news , which means that it has more opportunity than the opposition to ensure that its coverage is favourable . |
| 17 | Dragon Project researcher , Don Robins , has shown that stone has a ‘ defect structure ’ , which means that it has gaps which can trap electrons . |
| 18 | His salary is now £143,000 , which means that it has more than trebled in just a couple of years . |
| 19 | Infra-red light reaches the Earth in significant amounts , and its effect on the molecules of both living and inanimate objects is to vibrate them , which means that it raises their temperature . |
| 20 | Made from Scandinavian Redwood which has a distinctive warmth and grain , the Ducal range is made to very high standards which means that it looks good , works well and is designed to last . |
| 21 | It is also a buffer , which means that it resists pH change . |
| 22 | It cost £2.5 billion and we got back £2 billion , which means that it cost us £500 million , which does not look to me like a profit . |
| 23 | Which means that it assigns all the traffic to the shortest route . |
| 24 | This specimen , which weighs only about 10 kilograms , shows a thin , surficial zone altered by heat ( the interior stayed cold ) , which indicates that it passed through the atmosphere as a small body and so undoubtedly made a soft landing on the ice sheet ( Figure 5 ) . |
| 25 | so did the automatic thing which proves that it takes a bit of time and patience before you 've achieved this |
| 26 | Here , contamination with metals , says Battarbee , occurs ‘ about ten years before the first evidence of acidification ’ , which suggests that it took only ten years to exhaust the lake 's capacity to buffer pollution . |
| 27 | An extreme view opposing the ‘ market fundamentals ’ or ‘ true-value ’ approach is that which argues that it makes no sense to talk about an inherent value of a share . |
| 28 | She says that it tastes good . |
| 29 | She says that it has transformed her daughter 's life . |
| 30 | She says that it 's made it all worthwhile . |