Example sentences of "[is] [conj] it [vb mod] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only certainty is that it 'll make Mr Morton a millionaire |
| 2 | Since manufacture always has to be practised upon materials , its first implication is that it may show signs of the constraints these materials bring to the technological process ( Gombrich 1979 : 63–94 ) . |
| 3 | The irony of organizational control in a compliance system is that it may impede performance and efficiency at field level , where enforcement is a matter of negotiation and bargaining demanding the flexibility of high discretion . |
| 4 | It was previously suggested that one reason attention focusing might actually impair recognition of non-risky junctions is that it would prevent subjects from attending to useful peripheral information . |
| 5 | I mean certainly you ca n't achieve as much as a man does , but also the jobs just are n't there any more , not so much , and the main change I 'd like to see in education is that it would help girls cope with this dilemma . |
| 6 | While this is not insignificant ( a weakness of the lecture or the teacher-directed lesson is that it must take place at a pre-set time irrespective of student readiness ) it is hardly Liberty Hall . |
| 7 | ‘ What is most worrying about this kind of action is that it could complicate matters if someone else were to decide to intervene , say in Romania . |
| 8 | If it can keep up the pace , ICL 's hope is that it could overtake IBM in the UK by 1996 . |
| 9 | ‘ The danger of a hung Parliament is that it could hang Britain , ’ a senior Cabinet minister said yesterday . |
| 10 | One is that it should incorporate Feynman 's proposal to formulate quantum theory in terms of a sum over histories . |
| 11 | The first merit of P. N. Furbank 's admirable biography is that it should revive interest in Diderot . |
| 12 | The problem with this sort of approach is that it can make standards yet more remote from those most in need of them . |
| 13 | Its particular feature is that it can print name cards and handle thick paper up to 300 microns , and is also supplied with a cutter . |
| 14 | One of the advantages of the bureaucratic structure is that it can ensure continuity through the use of standard work practices and also provide some measure of stability . |
| 15 | The immediate difficulty with an ideological definition is that it can deflect attention from writers of the working class to those who write about the working class , a tendency which is prominent in Ashraf 's own study . |
| 16 | In my view , the value of research is that it can help teachers to define more clearly the problems that they themselves must solve . |
| 17 | The basis of the traditional antipathy of churches to gambling is that it can encourage greed , become addictive and is looking for a reward that has not been earned either by virtue or by effort . |
| 18 | Another reason why the passive is used in writing is that it can reduce repetition . |
| 19 | What he says is that erm you know when he was writing of six hundred and fifty eight seats in parliament , I do n't know how many there are now , but he says if we allowed for people to be paid , then we have as it were six hundred and fifty eight prizes to people 's six hundred and fifty eight jobs for people and he says and this is rather astonishing to hear , to read this is that it will attract adventurism of low class to er parliament if we pay members of parliament . |
| 20 | The trouble is that it will leave mothers feeling terrible if their child does n't keep up . |
| 21 | The charge against such a move is that it will pay unemployment benefit to claimants , some of whose household income already prevents them from being poor . |
| 22 | Here the desires of the vendor and Newco may converge because the problem for Newco in acquiring goodwill is that it will reduce Newco 's distributable profits as it must be written off in the profit and loss account , unless it can be written off against the share premium account . |
| 23 | The real danger of LMS is that it will encourage schools to go down individual and isolationist paths . |
| 24 | Smith , in India to watch both the Madras match and Friday 's final Test at Bombay said : ‘ One of the big reasons we have gone for four-day championship cricket is that it will encourage spinners to play a bigger part in our domestic game . ’ |
| 25 | The only certain result of such a selection , however , is that it will provoke dissent from NI readers . |
| 26 | Current high levels of unemployment can be accounted for without recourse to an explanation from technology ; consumer appetite for yet more goods and services still appears to be insatiable ; and even those economists who advance reasons why new technology might cause unemployment at some point in the future acknowledge that just at present the likelihood is that it will cause labour shortages rather than an overall labour surplus . |
| 27 | One of the more pathetic arguments in favour of EMU is that it will save transaction costs between currencies . |
| 28 | Although all firms that go into IVAs are automatically referred to the Institute 's Investigation Committee , the Committee 's policy is that it will adjourn consideration of their cases to give the arrangements time to work , unless there is evidence of fraud , falsehood or gross recklessness . |
| 29 | It is not certain how important this is but it might influence mood , hormone function , and resistance to infection . |
| 30 | With all the major supermarket chains currently locked in a price war , the big test for the Co-Ops 's new-look is whether it 'll boost takings . |