Example sentences of "[noun] [is] [conj] it [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Gale expects that to change.A key benefit for Hong Kong Telecom is that it already has a major Chinese investor in the shape of the Peking-owned China International Trust & Investment Corp , which bought a 20% stake in 1990 . |
| 2 | A significant aspect of her work is that it always broaches the boundaries between the traditional disciplines of philosophy , psychoanalysis , literary , and art theory ; the implications it holds for each are touched on by the essays in this collection ( for instance , Ainley , ‘ The Ethics of Sexual Difference ’ ; O'Connor , ‘ The An-Arche of Psychotherapy ’ ; Minow-Pinkney , ‘ Virginia Woolf : ‘ Seen from a Foreign Land' ’ ; and Burgin , ‘ Geometry and Abjection ’ ) . |
| 3 | She believes the general lack of women participants in the sport is that it simply does not appeal . |
| 4 | The attraction of technology transfer to SMEs is that it often involves incremental improvements to products and processes which offer a rapid return and reduced risk . |
| 5 | The only real difference is that it now seems to have been taken over by the 22 clubs who , having escaped Football League control , no longer find their pursuit of commercial success frustrated by the decisive voting power of their poor relations . |
| 6 | The good thing about the president 's intervention is that it publicly recognised a problem that needed solution the very antithesis of WRU custom and practice for most of the past dozen or more ostrich era . |
| 7 | THE NATIONAL MARRIAGE GUIDANCE COUNCIL ( now called RELATE ) recognised a long time ago that the fabric of society has changed and one of the reasons for the organisation 's change of name is that it now deals with all personal crisis situations . |
| 8 | A point of greater relevance to the UK is that it also differs greatly from trading and investment blocs under which a country 's trade and investment flows to countries within the bloc are free but there are restrictions between the bloc as a whole and the rest of the world . |
| 9 | The other is that it actually fosters in you in-built critical faculties , so you can actually edit and shape your work as you go along , having been taught by the master — the masters of literature — not just the professors , the great writers . ’ |
| 10 | The argument is that it therefore provides a good basis for a fair and orderly grading structure . |
| 11 | The biggest advantage of this new probe is that it now allows samples to be taken continuously from a conscious , living organism , and these samples can be analysed without further preparation . |
| 12 | Cairns-Smith 's view of the DNA/protein machinery is that it probably came into existence relatively recently , perhaps as recently as three billion years ago . |
| 13 | The first thing to note about the raw strategy is that it dearly wants to have it all . |
| 14 | One of the persistent misconceptions about professional work in the human service occupations is that it mainly takes place face to face with clients or patients and that time spent with others about the client or patient is a necessary but regrettable adjunct to the real work . |
| 15 | What gives this paper its particular importance in a philosophical sense is that it implicitly raises questions about the nature of knowledge in social work — or what we take to be knowledge about social work . |
| 16 | This property of superposability both enshrines the pure mathematician 's abstract concept of what a vector space is and it also provides the perfect way in which to mirror the nature of quantum mechanical states . |
| 17 | But for all the triumphs of the Socratic spirit , its true significance is that it repeatedly prompts a regeneration of art — art in the metaphysical sense which is its widest and deepest sense . |
| 18 | THE trouble with the newly published list of the richest women in Britain is that it only confirms men 's worst prejudices . |
| 19 | One of the criticisms sometimes levelled at the whole group drama approach is that it always seems to involve lots of meetings and discussions , and that this disadvantages those children whose grasp of language is uncertain ; that this " type " of drama can rapidly become nothing more than a heated discussion involving only the teacher and the more articulate members of the class . |
| 20 | The difficulty with this direct form of government is that it rarely survives the death of the caudillo . |
| 21 | One of the major reasons for the widespread failure of rural developments is that it usually does not serve the interests of the people at whom it is ostensibly aimed . |
| 22 | An odd result of this ruling in the moist atmosphere of the islands is that it sometimes allows company pilots to land , but not take off — a reversal of the usual situation . |
| 23 | Erm , I think it 's worth saying that er us j just reiterating on what councillor has just said and that is that I think most tenants are very well aware of the right to buy and er er the motion being unnecessary but what happens with the motion is that it possibly attracts people who really in many ways can not actually afford to buy er to take advantage of their rights but who might be persuaded by very persuasive tactics to do so . |
| 24 | But from what little I do know of it , my understanding is that it basically dramatises the same power relationships , and so seems to appeal to the same inequalities . |
| 25 | The reason why the present government nevertheless eventually sanctioned this book is that it mainly covers the war years , when the secret services were inevitably more widely tolerated than at other times . |
| 26 | One problem with the orthodox account is that it simply does not square with the facts about when and where riots happen — and in particular , whereabouts in the prison system they occur . |
| 27 | The most obvious feature of innovation is that it always comes with surprise . |
| 28 | And he 's erm when we were thinking about tax planning , I was thinking that if a , a , a qualifying endowment , if it 's run for ten years , the one big advantage is that it always pays without deduction of tax . |
| 29 | What is usually said about the invention of printing is that it greatly expanded an earlier minority culture , and at last made it into a majority culture . |
| 30 | The ultimate strength of capitalist global hegemony is that it continually works , and works very hard , to persuade people that the system is natural , fair and fundamentally better than any realistic alternative . |