Example sentences of "of [det] method [is] [conj] it " in BNC.

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1 The main attraction of that method is that it can be loaded in favour of constituencies , to give them a heavy incentive to recruit more members .
2 The major advantage of this method is that it does not depend on the calculation of MNI , which at best is an unreliable estimate of the true numbers of individuals in a sample .
3 The beauty of this method is that it makes you aware of the most harmonic choices that are avaible to you on any chosen scale degree .
4 A further advantage of this method is that it allows the phonetic location of an incipient change to be identified rather precisely , and particular variants to be associated with particular groups of speakers : ‘ The main difference between the boys and the girls in the use of ( r ) is that the girls are almost always rhotic and most frequently use [ ? ] , while the boys are less frequently rhotic and tend to use [ ? ] more frequently than the girls ’ ( Romaine 1978a : 150 ) .
5 The advantage of this method is that it is a multivariate technique which allows an analysis of the relationship between unemployment and imprisonment to be examined after controlling for other factors such as crime levels , numbers of convictions , and age structure of the population , which might affect the rate of incarceration .
6 The beauty of this method is that it is not only fascinating but incredibly cheap and will not need large capital expenditure to put it to the test .
7 A further and very important advantage of this method is that it suggests a way of testing the validity of the rational expectations hypothesis itself .
8 The weakness of this method is that it takes no account of what happens after the payback date is reached .
9 The weakness of this method is that it takes no account of what happens after the payback date is reached .
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