Example sentences of "[noun sg] that it [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Then , grasping the shoe and using its heel as a club , smite the biscuit tin lid with such force that it flies across the room and the egg plops into the glass , unbroken . |
| 3 | Barking ferociously , the big Great Dane rushed from the rear of the house , skidded around the corner and hurled herself at the gate with such force that it creaked under the impact . |
| 4 | If tourism is to be properly recognised as Scotland 's largest employer , and recognised for the very considerable revenue that it brings into the country , it must first be given higher priority within the Scottish Office itself . |
| 5 | It is in the nature of this kind of programme that it deals with several different topics , so the length of individual items is likely to be good for classroom use . |
| 6 | ‘ So far everything that we 've done we 've done keeping in mind that it has to be played live . |
| 7 | So my skin began to look better , my guts were giving a great , big heartfelt vote of thanks , but I went on losing weight that it seemed to me I could ill afford to lose . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's a tragedy that it looks as if he 's quitting just when he 's developed from being a superstar into an awesome megastar . |
| 9 | While the meeting in the foyer was going on , the corporation gave a clear indication that it felt under pressure . |
| 10 | I would like to hear an opinion for somebody who ca n't afford the twelve hundred to two thousand pound that it takes for surrogacy ? |
| 11 | The hon. Member for Foyle ( Mr. Hume ) has , much more eloquently than I could , told us of the damage that it does and the effect that it has on the young people of Northern Ireland because it gives them a future of either migration or unemployment . |
| 12 | Somehow or other your miond analyzes the light that it receives from these bodies and tells you about them . |
| 13 | It is of interest above all for the light that it sheds on Nizan 's allegiance to the Soviet cause in 1937 . |
| 14 | The afternoon sun on my back was gently warming and the light that it cast on Chola 's and Mina 's faces was as clear and richly brown as amber . |
| 15 | It appeared round the corner with loud threats of speed , but the colt that it startled from among the gorse , which still flickered indistinctly in the raw afternoon , outdistanced it at a canter ( 2 ) . |
| 16 | Within Renaissance writing we can discover evidence which reveals that a text 's recognition that it circulates within a powerful institutional context need not be capitulation to context , but its own powerful representation of that context . |
| 17 | Accordingly , the factors to be taken into account in deciding whether a government exists as the government of a state are : ( a ) whether it is the constitutional government of the state ; ( b ) the degree , nature and stability of administrative control , if any , that it of itself exercises over the territory of the state ; ( c ) whether Her Majesty 's Government has any dealings with it and if so what is the nature of those dealings ; and ( d ) in marginal cases , the extent of international recognition that it has as the government of the state . |
| 18 | which he left to the Birmingham Art Gallery ( on condition that it opened on Sundays ) . |
| 19 | Apart from a small stain on the edge this came up in almost the bright and shiny condition that it appears in the illustration . |
| 20 | The Court of Appeal granted a limited injunction against the newspaper on the basis that Mr Kaye had an arguable case that it amounted to " malicious falsehood " to claim that he had voluntarily surrendered a valuable property right ( ie in his " exclusive " story ) in these circumstances . |
| 21 | The authors , stress on cognition has the advantage that it leads to an appreciation of the importance of the distribution of knowledge about what goods should represent , rather than merely of the distribution of the goods themselves . |
| 22 | The system offered by the CNAA had the advantage that it drew upon much wider academic expertise than any single institution could offer . |
| 23 | The use of the modular approach initially brings the very real advantage that it appears to be more acceptable to users and provides greater insight for the designer of the design problem . |
| 24 | Their task is to so translate the text that it speaks with the original intention and force as it did to those originally addressed . |
| 25 | It is , however , in my judgment , a valid objection to the section 6(2) order sought by paragraph 11 of the prayer that it appears to be directed to restoring only the investors to their former positions . |
| 26 | She swung the paddle with such enthusiasm that it landed with mind-boggling force across his fundament , making him yelp and grab the cheeks of his tormented seat with both hands . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | One of the important characteristics of those moves was the support that it represented for British liberalisation policies . |
| 29 | The principal importance of the decision , however , lies in the support that it affords to the proposition that it is not necessary for the duty of the policeman to be found in a specific rule of the common law or statute . |
| 30 | It was simply a happy coincidence that it sounded like an insult ! |