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

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1 If the theory that DNA and its copying machinery arose spontaneously is so improbable that it obliges us to assume that life is very rare in the universe , and may even be unique to Earth , our first resort is to try to find a more probable theory .
2 The third thing about that is that it represents us saying continuum .
3 The advantage of the design is that it allows us to exclude other explanations .
4 The real use of this model linking personality development to subject choice is that it allows us to make predictions about how pupils might react to changes in school science curriculum and school organization .
5 One advantage of the self-concept is that it allows us to examine people as they are , as ‘ wholes ’ , not as a series of personality dimensions .
6 Perhaps the greatest value binocular vision has for us is that it allows us to judge distance .
7 Then we shall show that this more subtle procedure is a valid way of estimating a macroeconomic model which incorporates rational expectations and that it allows us to test rational expectations conditional on the economic model with which it is combined .
8 If we look at this client server model today one of the most significant advantages it delivers is that it allows us to run different kinds of applications on different computers .
9 Well he thinks the only way that modern will accept the rule of one person rather than another is if they think they 're somehow there as a result of their own action , so we 'll only accept the rule of erm our leaders if we think we put them there and we take them back again , we put them there and can recall them and this for Barry is the only merit that contemporary democratic policy democratic erm systems that it allows us to think of our rulers as having some legitimate claim to rule .
10 Emphasis on the importance of understanding the factors affecting breeding success in males and females has the advantage that it forces us to ask specific comparative questions concerning the functional significance of particular sex differences .
11 The play 's strength is that it draws on Eliot 's earlier work and makes that earlier work transferable to the West End , a triumph in itself ; its weakness , like that of most of the plays , is that it offers us little we can not find more concisely and intensely expressed in the poetry .
12 For the point is this : not that myth refers us back to some original event which has been fancifully transcribed as it passed through the collective memory ; but that it refers us forward to something that will happen , that must happen .
13 It is as if the USA and the USSR were caught in the logic of the Prisoner 's Dilemma or the Chicken Game and the only sense in which this is not mere fiction is that it lets us predict successfully what will happen next .
14 One of the more remarkable , and useful , aspects of language is that it enables us to pose questions .
15 The advantage of this is that it enables us to start focusing on content .
16 It 's er it is n't it is n't everyday language , and I 'm not sure that it helps us express what we really want to say .
17 My main complaint about this book , however , is that it encourages us to become not so much rock climbers as consumers .
18 Properly speaking , the force ( and also the weakness ) of a personal testimony is that it tells us as much about the person who believes as about the content of what he believes .
19 Although entrance is free we have to lay aside everything to enter through the narrow gate , so that it costs us everything .
20 Two , our institute has its own hall and as this is now about seventy years old and was not particularly well built in the first place , you will understand that it costs us a good deal in money and effort to literally keep the roof over our heads .
21 An interesting consequence of taking this much looser view of determinism is that it brings us much closer to the classical position .
22 In that it gives us ‘ knowledge ’ , as opposed to mere ‘ belief ’ or ‘ faith ’ , of course it has ; but Locke also means that revelation must be answerable to reason .
23 ( 1 ) If seeing something is like eating it with the eye , so that it gives us sensations in our eyes as eating manna gives us ‘ sensations of sickness , and sometimes of acute pains or gripings ’ in our stomachs , then what physically enters the eye comes to have an importance not only for understanding the physical mechanism of visual perception , but also for understand the concept of visual perception .
24 The definition is adopted , of course , not merely for the reason that it gives us a further explanation of the difference between causal items and their effects .
25 A realization that it gives us rights that we do n't have as well as some sharing , some loss .
26 If we just win freedom that freedom will become very empty if we 're not able to use the power that it gives us to create justice and peace in the region .
27 Do n't forget that it gives us another chance to make progress in Europe this season ; success for Linfield and of course Crusaders may yet lift us away from the bottom of the ladder and give us a chance of avoiding those detested preliminary rounds .
28 One upshot of the tool box view is that it invites us to use data generically with little regard for the theoretical auspices of the method .
29 But if we had no independent reason for accepting this conclusion , such as the argument from error provides , we would take it as a point against his theory that it shows we do n't know the most central and obvious things such as that we are not brains in vats , that there is a material world or that the world began more than five minutes ago .
30 The consequence of sin is that it cuts us off from others .
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