Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb -s] [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The roller is independent of the vehicle that it transports so that , if the rollers have a circumference of three feet ( or , say , one metre ) then the slab will move forward six feet ( say , two metres ) per rev . |
| 2 | There 's one scene of four minutes where every third or fourth sentence is ‘ What about the cases ? ’ , referring to what Rita 's character was going to do with her baggage , and it changes so that each person is saying it with a different meaning . |
| 3 | And it argues convincingly that only by giving economic and political power back to the poor — the people most dependent on the natural environment for their day-to-day livelihoods — can the world defend its future . |
| 4 | It is misleading if it means simply that students learn how to acquire conventional encyclopaedia-like knowledge for themselves . |
| 5 | This was pretty certainly an exaggeration , but it shows unmistakably that the Black Country ( though this name had yet to be invented ) was in process of creation . |
| 6 | This model allows us to calculate the average trends in the binding energies of nuclei , but it predicts incorrectly that all nuclei should have a spherical shape , which varies as the cube root of the atomic weight , just as the radius of a liquid drop varies as the cube root of its mass . |
| 7 | This ability is very striking because it shows clearly that young children can think about a non-existent or counterfactual situation . |
| 8 | ‘ Nurses everywhere are working under intense and growing pressure and today 's announcement will be a heavy blow since it says clearly that the Government does not value their efforts and is not prepared to treat them with fairness or justice . ’ |
| 9 | erm that then do n't come on either , but when it clicks like that they flash together and they both light up , and then when you start it up they go up and then they come back on again |
| 10 | A moire fringe unit monitors the horizontal azimuth of the beam as it sweeps so that it does not go out of alignment . |
| 11 | Nor is there anything remotely convincing about its performance ; there is a feeling of some urgency from 4000rpm but the power stops as suddenly as it starts so that the 6500rpm red line is a merely a figment of someone 's imagination . |
| 12 | For this reason it is helpful to record details of the elicitation and judgment process as it proceeds so that the bare bones of a grid can later have the flesh replaced . |
| 13 | The compiler recognises the behaviour of the program as it runs so that the data can be collected and used for further program code optimisation . |