Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [that] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The programme is open to people who have been mulling over an idea for some time and experts will give it the commercial analysis it needs and , if it stands up , the business planning and search for funding that it merits . |
| 2 | As well as the points mentioned there are the usual claims for Latin that it improves competence in English , facilitates the learning of other languages and so on . |
| 3 | That humans also fail on these sentences was regarded as support that it reflected how humans process ambiguity although arguments exist against this inference ( Briscoe , 1987 ) . |
| 4 | Clive had a stammer and had learnt through regression that it had originated when he had been the subject of bullying at school . |
| 5 | Other countries apparently more successful than us , never seem to mind change , the British do for fear that it diminishes their lot in life . |
| 6 | United Biscuits was one of the few fallers after confirmation that it had sold its Terry 's chocolate division to Kraft of the U.S. in a deal worth £220 million . |
| 7 | He said it only because he had forgotten the name she had told him , but the delicious little gurgle of laughter she gave coincided so precisely with another crackle of thunder that it seemed suddenly apt . |
| 8 | I 've always liked the rain , the city at night , wet streets stretching into winter darkness , a peculiar feeling of freedom that it contains . |
| 9 | As with good subwoofers the effect of this extra octave is felt primarily in the enhanced sense of acoustic that it conveys — one simply becomes still more involved in the proceedings , more a part of the audience than an observer . |
| 10 | The answer given to the first certified question was in line with those pronouncements , so even though Viscount Dilhorne was of opinion that the evidence fell short of establishing that Mr. Occhi had consented to the taking of the £6 it was a matter of decision that it made no difference whether or not he had so consented . |
| 11 | And erm the effect though of holding beach material on one part of the beach is of course that it starves the area which is along the Sussex Channel coast to the east of beach material that it would formerly have received . |
| 12 | It is the ultimate paradox of this highly academic school of fiction that it defies all the usual rules of academic scrupulosity , as if fiction were a breaking-out , a holiday from cares . |
| 13 | So clueless and incompetent , so capable of mismanagement that it has turned it into an art form . ’ |
| 14 | Reed was also an early casualty , down 4p to 717p following confirmation that it has bought Robert Maxwell 's Official Airline Guides for 417m dollars ( £275m ) . |
| 15 | Reed was also an early casualty , down 4p to 717p following confirmation that it has bought Robert Maxwell 's Official Airline Guides for 417m dollars ( £275m ) . |
| 16 | Reed was also an early casualty , down 5p to 716p following confirmation that it has bought Robert Maxwell 's Official Airline Guides for 417m dollars ( £275m ) . |
| 17 | Bureaus can also be expected to administer ‘ a corpus of law and regulations that de fines barriers between itself and the sector of industry that it regulates ’ . |
| 18 | They believed so completely in the strength of their discipline and the spider net of submission that it secreted . |
| 19 | Growing urban scepticism about the ecological wisdom of intensive farming is often paralleled by a lack of appreciation that it has been essential to meet consumer demand for cheap food . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Ghandi , I think , in the early eighties epitomised , to a large degree , and attitude of concern about erm violence , and I think that in some large measure the sort of recognition that it gained , particularly in the awards and so on , had a lot to do with its subject matter as against it 's actual execution , and I think that if it had been at another time , or if the subject matter had n't been erm quite as powerful as that old genius 's life was , I do n't think it would have won the awards . |
| 22 | Ukraine for example is already stated in its er declaration of Sovereignty that it regards itself as a non nuclear zone , so they 're not going to want nuclear weapons for themselves , and er , I imagine that the former republics will have to quite a a comprehensive military alliance perhaps on the lines of NATO and that nuclear weapons will be vested in that alliance . |
| 23 | The approach can still be used with much profit when it attempts to emphasize ‘ those aspects of law that it has [ a ] comparative advantage in dealing with . ’ |
| 24 | Well I felt , I just did n't know what it was but it lacked the sort of charm that it had before . |
| 25 | A major problem with the extent of underthrusting required ( in excess of 1000km ) is the very low angle of subduction that it implies ( 5° or less ) . |
| 26 | The machinery of negotiation and consultation in BR is striking in its extent and in the volume of business that it handles . |
| 27 | The miners used rock drills and compressed air to drive through hard rock and the level had a hydraulic engine , worked by water from the dam at Sun Hush , which had such a head of water that it developed up to fifty horsepower and worked both the water pumps to drain the deep levels and the winding gear . |
| 28 | Having stated the case you may legitimately put it into its historical setting in order to show what advance it made on the previous law ; and you may also indicate the trend of development that it started . |
| 29 | Bede says of the episcopal authority of Bishop Wilfrid in the reign of Oswiu that it embraced Northumbrians and Picts as far as the power of Oswiu extended ( HE III , 3 ) , and the Life of Wilfrid that in the reign of Ecgfrith it widened still further so that Wilfrid was bishop of the Saxons ( that is , the Northumbrians ) in the south and the Britons , Scots and Picts in the north ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 21 ) . |
| 30 | The vital point , brought out forcefully by Fuller , is that just as adjudication is distinguished by the form of participation that it confers so are other types of decision-making , and just as the nature of adjudication shapes the procedures relevant to its decisional form so do other species of decision-making . |