Example sentences of "that it [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The Concentrated Reinforcement Programme was discontinued since it was considered that the very marginal improvement that it had over the Standard programme was not worth the relatively more substantial increase in running costs .
2 I am happy to acknowledge the views of the Northern Ireland Economic Council , and the questions that it had at the time of its submission need to be dealt with .
3 The first half dealing with the historical aspect of the Ju 52 , its development and predecessors , and the impact that it had in the world of air transport , concentrating mainly on the type 's civil use .
4 Although parliamentary government did not cease to work , it no longer appeared to be working in the way that it had in the past .
5 Coun George Robinson claimed that if the council had received the same level of Government support grant that it had in the 1970s , the poll tax would have been about £100 .
6 But , owing to the fact that on the ebb tide water movement is confined to the depressions , the sediment deposited will not accumulate in the depressions to the same extent that it accumulates on the ridges .
7 The rate of breakdown of organic detritus is only modest in the temperate grasslands , so that it accumulates in the soil .
8 Mrs Palichuk sank onto a scarlet kitchen chair and eased off her drab grey winter coat so that it draped over the back , retaining , however , the black kerchief which modestly veiled her hair .
9 The appellants applied to discharge the registrar 's order on the ground , firstly , that it was in all the circumstances oppressive and secondly , that it amounted to the use of section 236(2) for a purpose not intended by Parliament .
10 She told us that her sister had lost her home and all that it contained in the December tragedy , and was still in hospital .
11 He had raised his voice so that it carried through the babel of the many conversations at the high table , and even reached the nearest of the lesser knights below .
12 Mine was so tight that it cut into the skin .
13 One tries to explain that it happens on the odd occasion , at Question Time , which is not a great parliamentary occasion , and that is what the media pick up .
14 Police said at the time that it looked like the work of the IRA .
15 Many feel that The Photographers ' Gallery has a somewhat lopsided view of contemporary photography and photographers and that it preaches to the already converted and them alone .
16 Although there was a break in the snowfall , the wind still blew fiercely from the north , moaning round the house and whipping up the fallen snow so that it skimmed across the fields like fine powder , piling up in deep drifts where its progress was interrupted by hedgerows .
17 Forcing her mouth into a winsome smile , Gina pronounced the greeting , so that it sounded like the English ‘ good day ’ , in accordance with the instructions of her Berlitz language guide .
18 One further point that is often made to explain the nature of the New Criticism is that it developed outside the ambit of the main university graduate schools , in small colleges mainly in the South .
19 She glanced at it uneasily , remembering that it ran past the witch 's cottage .
20 A huge , heavy , panelled oak door faced it , and peering through the windows I saw that it led into the mill kitchen .
21 The last folly was finished in nineteen thirty-six and provoked such a public outcry that it led to the first-ever planning inquiry .
22 So effective was hegemony around the poor law that it continued throughout the preindustrial period and the period of rapid growth .
23 Subsequently , at a speech to UNICE on 22 July , Gillian Shephard , the British employment secretary and current chair of the EC Council of Social Affairs Ministers , stated that the Government will be reviewing European Community legislation on social and employment matters to ensure that it conforms with the principle of ‘ subsidiarity ’ .
24 Thereby he had represented to the finance company that the van was not his but that it belonged to the trader .
25 The sadness of what is in effect the breakup of the comprehensive system is that it occurs at the point when the system was reaching a confidence and maturity which demonstrated that it could meet the demands of the late twentieth century .
26 These data suggest that the state 's contribution of resources to elderly households through the provision of support services is , for most services , not substantial and that it varies with the type of household .
27 He concluded by stating that he had been ‘ compelled to trench on political questions as well as economic — because I feel we are approaching a situation that is so grave that it compares with the War , when we were compelled to act together in self-defence ’ .
28 ‘ The club is unique , and we want to see it develop so that it compares with the Queen 's Rugby Club , that is serving as a platform to provide some of the country 's top players .
29 Marxists argue that it derives from the needs of the capitalist mode of production , while elite theorists see it as an institutional-bureaucratic coincidence of interest .
30 Philippe Roy prefers to do without , because he feels that it interferes with the flavour of a fine oil .
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