Example sentences of "[is] that it [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 And these are things like thalidomide , that of course everybody knows about , and of course , tragic and terrible as it was , the fact is that it affected just four hundred and fifty children .
2 And the answer of course is that it depends how much you make God like yourself , and that 's a test that Milton does n't come altogether well out of .
3 One consequence of augmenting the focus registers as in SPAR is that it becomes more common for candidates to be separated only by a weak focusing preference .
4 The main criticism about information provided to employees is that it arrives too late .
5 A major problem for LTOM is that it derives only 30 per cent of its turnover from retail investors unlike the average of 70 per cent achieved at other pure options exchanges such as the CBOE and the EOE .
6 When we five and a half years of life of the coral from Isabella Island in the Galapagos the remarkable thing about this coral record is that it represents nearly three hundred and eighty years of continuous coral growth .
7 ONE problem with a high-tech war is that it requires so much technology .
8 Indeed , the only good thing about their confrontation against Sukova and Novotna is that it took just 50 minutes to complete , with the established Czech combination sweeping to a 6-2 , 6-2 victory and a place in the semi-finals against the United States .
9 An advantage of an analysis which accommodates phonetically detailed information is that it allows phonetically detailed generalizations , some of which are of considerable theoretical interest .
10 The essential feature of the life which Eliot had constructed for himself is that it contained as few surprises as possible : it has been said that , for over thirty years , he patronized the same tailor , the same tobacconist and the same wine merchant .
11 The trouble with the entire left is that it talks too much .
12 The problem with this reasoning is that it comes very close to construing a clause to the extent that the plaintiffs seek to enforce it rather than as it stands .
13 The small snag is that it costs considerably more than the purchase price to buy a licence to use them and a licence is required for each computer .
14 The only trouble is that it lies quite close to a footbridge and as soon as anyone walks across it I can guarantee I will not get a bite for at least an hour afterwards .
15 One of this book 's merits is that it shows how hard stone application was not confined to the Baroque , and includes unexpected nineteenth-century examples .
16 The advantage of this formal approach to organisations is that it shows how organisational objectives can be reached by :
17 The answer is that it included particularly rich concentrations of royal resources : Dorestad with its emporium and mint ; major churches , including the metropolitan sees of Rheims and Sens , and rich abbeys like St-Denis and St-Wandrille , on whose endowments the Carolingians had laid their hands ; a number of royal palaces , and many royal estates and forests , both Carolingian patrimonial lands around the lower Meuse and old Merovingian ones in the Seine basin , especially along the Oise ; and last but not least , good communications , including a surviving Roman road-network .
18 A second problem is that it seems somehow contradictory that to should have meaning in some of its uses but not in others .
19 Now , when you read Totem and Taboo , one of the things you may notice , particularly if you 've read more recent anthropological social science literature , is that it seems very old fashioned .
20 But the real problem is that it reaches mainly those who need it least .
21 Right , well I think the biggest problem with Trust Law is that it expects too much of trustees .
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