Example sentences of "that it [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 The rate of breakdown of organic detritus is only modest in the temperate grasslands , so that it accumulates in the soil .
3 The Training Agency frequently claims that it insists on non-discriminatory practices , but ‘ all the evidence points to widespread exclusion of Black trainees from prestigious employer based schemes … most likely to lead to full-time jobs , top-ups to the allowance and higher quality training ’ .
4 This is so unexpected when it is encountered for the first time that it feels like a deliberate deception .
5 One of the reasons for difficulty in diagnosing this condition when it first occurs is the apparent similarity of the symptoms that it produces to those associated with cystitis .
6 That is , how to give a child a knowledge of what has been accepted as right and what has been accepted as wrong , or , in other words , of good and evil ; and further , how this can be so well rooted in their minds that it produces in them an inclination to act automatically in accordance with what must be designated civilised behaviour .
7 A deadly nerve poison , it was once used as an animal poison but is now banned on the grounds that it kills with extreme cruelty .
8 Our general topic of discussion is perceptual consciousness and the problem that it constitutes for physicalism .
9 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 .
10 There is a striking analogy here with crystal growth , except that it happens in two dimensions , not three .
11 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 .
12 In a classical system , Todorov argues , several genres may claim their right to represent reality and each will have its own measure of verisimilitude to the extent that it conforms to its own internal rules .
13 MK points out that it conforms to TACMA 's Band B recommendation and advises the use of filters where interference is a problem .
14 Profiles of Development presupposes a common developmental path , and thus encourages the control of pupils ' learning experience so that it conforms to that path .
15 Secondly , I would point out that it is unusual for the Committee to be able to assert with confidence that legislation which is changed so that it conforms to their views , was changed solely because of these views .
16 When an output of the company is in the form of large quantities of interchangeable items it becomes uneconomical to test each one to ensure that it conforms to specification , so tests are carried out on samples .
17 When an output of the company is in the form of large quantities of interchangeable items it becomes uneconomical to test each one to ensure that it conforms to specification , so tests are carried out on samples .
18 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 ’ .
19 Because DVI is a programmable technique it will be possible to revise its algorithms with little difficulty to ensure that it conforms with MPEG requirements when they are known .
20 However , those who operate the law are well aware that it will only be respected to the extent that it conforms with public opinion : the reason why journalists and broadcasters are not prosecuted much more often for undoubted infringements of the letter of the laws of contempt and official secrecy is simply that the authorities are well aware that up-to-the-hilt enforcement of these vague laws would bring the law into further disrepute , and precipitate precisely the sort of clash between government and the press that it has been the British genius to avoid , whenever possible , by cosy arrangements .
21 The predictions are supported by evidence that male dwarfism is an evolutionary strategy in solitary , sedentary animals , that it evolves in low population densities ( high search costs ) , and that it correlates with a female-biased adult sex ratio ( reduced male competition ) .
22 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 .
23 The importance of the PPR is that it occurs at a time when the numbers of new susceptible hosts are increasing and so ensures the survival and propagation of the worm species .
24 Let us say that it occurs to you that a story in which a husband kills his wife without any apparent motive would be " a marvellous idea " .
25 The way you say that it sounds like crap , but I guess the essence of it makes sense .
26 ‘ The more effects you use the more you lose the original signal of the guitar and I like the fact that it sounds like a guitar and it sounds really twangy .
27 It is so obvious that it sounds like ‘ common sense ’ .
28 Although both males call , they do so in such close unison that it sounds like a single call .
29 One interviewer wrote that it sounds like it 's been squatted in by thirteen separate Puerto Rican junkie families with tubercular in-laws and half a dozen barking dogs .
30 Ah well it 's definitely , it 's sounds like a , if it 's doing it that it sounds like an inflammation on the nerves right enough .
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