Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] that it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is one of the unhappy paradoxes of the Whitehall market-place that it reacts to the goad of strong , abrasive ministers like Duncan Sandys , whose revolutionary ideas it detests , and yet is slow to implement the more balanced , evolutionary policies of a Harold Watkinson , for which it craves . |
| 2 | The Vodafone Ltd arm of Vodafone Group Plc says gross new connections for its British cellular telephone network for the first quarter of 1993 totalled 92,775 ; net new connections totalled 43,911 , and at the end of the quarter , Vodafone had more than 838,000 subscribers connected to its cellular network , 85,000 of them on the new LowCall tariff that it launched in October . |
| 3 | The move follows the announcement in July by the International Stock Exchange that it intended to set up a clearing house to handle existing and projected settlement services in London . |
| 4 | Superfly Curtis Mayfield 's superlative score makes superfluous blaxploitation pic that it accompanied redundant . |
| 5 | During the first half of the fifteenth century , for example , though slaves had come to man a large part of the standing army and to hold the lesser vezirliks , it was only after the conquest of Istanbul and the consequent fall of the Grand Vezir Candarli Halil Pasa that it became more or less regular practice for the highest office of the central administration , that of Grand Vezir , to be held by men of slave origin . |
| 6 | Apple Computer Inc says it is fighting a claim by the US Internal Revenue Service that it owes $290m in back taxes for 1987 and 1988 : issues include transactions with offshore entities , transfer pricing and the timing of deductions ; Apple has appealed to the US Tax Court . |
| 7 | It is however a fundamental requirement of a review notice that it leaves the recipient in no doubt that it is intended to be the formal document invoking the landlord 's right to review the rent ( Schirlcar Properties Ltd v Heinitz ( 1983 ) 268 EG 362 ) . |
| 8 | Indeed Kenyatta argues that the content of formal instruction is so divorced from the experience and life-style of the Gikuyu society that it does not serve the interests of their children . |
| 9 | The dominating size and aggressive shape of Sandweg church reminded Miss Danziger that it had played as great a part in the physical defence of the island as in its spiritual well-being ; but , although its size and shape were awesome at a distance , the church became increasingly a place of sanctuary as she neared it . |
| 10 | Sadism had always been of theoretical interest to Freud , and he suggests in Beyond the Pleasure Principle that it derives its energy from the death instincts . |
| 11 | This GEM — like most bacteria — is n't the smooth cell shape that it looks . |
| 12 | This deal provided GM with the entry to the luxury car market that it had sought — Saab was promised access to GM 's resources and dealership network . |
| 13 | So keen are GKR not to be identified with the less ethical and aggressive end of the search market that it maintains it frequently turns down business ; from any other search firm , this statement might be questionable , but GKR 's standing in the market , and the obvious importance of its untarnished reputation in gaining that position , suggests that it is probably the truth . |
| 14 | Behind it all is the Whitehall attitude that it knows better than Brussels . |
| 15 | ‘ If this judgment is less helpful than the parties hoped , as it almost certainly is , the reason lies in the terms of the statute , which places the discretion so unequivocally on the trial judge that it leaves little or no room for an appellate court to lay down principles or even guidelines . |
| 16 | ‘ Kalli , ’ wrote Denness in his autobiography , ‘ was so angry that he smashed his bat so savagely on the pavilion steps that it broke in two . ’ |
| 17 | That will have serious consequences , because where there is a small increase in spending by a local authority , high gearing will result in a large increase in the council tax that it has to levy . |
| 18 | It was so obviously a panic reaction that it fooled nobody . |
| 19 | Perhaps this opens up the idea of the Government substituting depreciation accounting in place of principal repayments of loans but imposing the same control over the depreciation charge that it imposes on the minimum revenue provision . |
| 20 | A happy precedent already exists : three years ago the Academy agreed to abandon a series of spelling changes that it had proposed in 1975 , but which had never found their way into common usage . |
| 21 | Si in New York , the subsidiary company must be so dominated by its parent corporation that it acts as a ‘ mere department ’ of the parent . |
| 22 | It is the total dependence of kinematics on the geometric model and the synthesis approach that it supports , which makes it an ideal design tool upon a computer graphics system . |
| 23 | Belgacom , the Belgian state phone company , is terrified that the government , which is in such a panic to cut its budget deficit as required by the terms of the Maastricht Treaty that it tendered its resignation to the king , who declined it , will rush to raise cash by privatising the phones : ‘ It is only when the company 's reorganisation and internal restructuring is complete that a new change to its statutes could be undertaken , ’ the board said , warning ‘ It takes time to transform an administration into an efficient and dynamic company . ’ |
| 24 | For him , even choices which are clearly dictated by subject matter are part of style : it is part of the style of a particular cookery book that it contains words like butter , flour , boil and bake ; and it is part of the style of Animal Farm that it contains many occurrences of pigs , farm , and Napoleon . |
| 25 | The second , and related , argument against sociobiology is that sociobiology is engaging in biological determinism ; the central accusation being that it offers a wholly biological basis for social and individual behaviour . |
| 26 | One major American corporation became so enthralled by the spell of its spreadsheet model that it lost touch with reality and some $80M disappeared ! |
| 27 | For systems administration purposes , all new servers are supplied with a visualisation console , which comes with with the firm 's workstation graphics environment and the Legato Systems Inc and Veritas Software Corp file management software that it offers . |
| 28 | Grazing by molluscs figured so strongly among the hazards to a clover leaf that it seems reasonable to expect that , in those years when slugs or snails were abundant , they may act as important selective forces within clover populations . |
| 29 | When he applied for judicial review he did not know whether his tariff exceeded 20 years , but on 10 April 1990 his solicitors were informed by the Home Office that it did not . |
| 30 | Sales of its Unix products will , for instance , outstrip revenues from the DEC versions that it markets over the next year or so , it reckons . |