Example sentences of "[is] that it [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While agreeing with this description of Hoccleve 's illness as of psychotic severity , our own evaluation is that it had a more depressive quality , many of the symptoms described by Hoccleve meeting the modern criteria for serious depression . |
| 2 | The response of Dr P to communications , it will be remembered , is that it ignores the aesthetic , that it is so obsessed with ‘ ideological statements and political texts ’ that it can no longer make a distinction between good and bad . |
| 3 | But perhaps the precise reasons for its origin and the timing of its confirmation are not so important ; of greater significance is that it became a key precedent during the ensuing century for those who wished to restrict the outflow of money from the English church to the church universal and in particular to the Roman Curia ; its appeal to the interests of patrons whose intentions were thwarted or impaired by impositions on the houses so that ‘ infinite loss and disinheritance are like to ensue to the founders of the said houses and their heirs ’ was to reappear in the later statute of Provisors . |
| 4 | The disadvantage of product departmentation is that it creates a new form of management and therefore increases the overhead costs and managerial complexity of the organisation . |
| 5 | Indeed , its strength is that it casts a caustic eye over the club scene , dealing with familiar situations with enough self-deprecation and sarcasm to stem any pretension . |
| 6 | The key value of this interpretation is that it separates the internal ( impairment ) and external ( Disability ) causes of disadvantage . |
| 7 | The significance of My Lai is that it threatened the American national myth — that of moral superiority . |
| 8 | One advantage of the correction of twice the number of degrees off track , is that it produces the two equal sides of an isosceles triangle . |
| 9 | Its lack of significance is that it made no real difference to the political situation , except for putting the burgh of Edinburgh through a rapid change of councils and giving it the burden of housing the army of the Congregation . |
| 10 | The result from the program 's point of view is that it receives an odd collection of keypresses , probably a set that it never received during testing . |
| 11 | The hallmark of the Christian faith is that it turns an apparent defeat into a victory . |
| 12 | The significance of the geoid for the operation of geomorphic processes is that it defines the ultimate base level for denudation ; any change in the geoid would therefore cause consequential changes in base levels . |
| 13 | Among the many good things in this life is that it exacts a full look at the worst of Waugh . |
| 14 | A SURPRISING aspect of the first British performance of Sofia Gubaidulina 's Violin Concerto , subtitled Offertorium , is that it provoked the odd walk-out in Birmingham Town Hall . |
| 15 | A SURPRISING aspect of the first British performance of Sofia Gubaidulina 's Violin Concerto , subtitled Offertorium , is that it provoked the odd walk-out from one or two places in Birmingham Town Hall . |
| 16 | The importance of the concession theory is that it establishes a theoretical framework sympathetic to state intervention ; the company is a creature of the state , existing to promote the public welfare , and as such the state has the right to interfere in its internal affairs and need not confine itself to external , general-law regulation . |
| 17 | The major problem with the method is that it takes a great deal of time , attention and patience . |
| 18 | The problem with weight loss is that it takes a long time to get what you want . |
| 19 | However , the best reason for making a will is that it takes the practical burden from the shoulders of those you leave behind . |
| 20 | The advantage of the notional syllabus is that it takes the communicative facts of language into account from the beginning without losing sight of grammatical and situational factors . |
| 21 | As James Tobin pointed out in his comments on the Coen and Hickman paper , a feature of their approach which exposes it to criticism from those macroeconomists who accept some variant of the NAIRU hypothesis is that it lacks a coherent explanation of the relationship between unemployment , be it Keynesian , classical or some mixture of the two , and inflation . |
| 22 | But the difficulty with this discussion is that it lacks a firm point of reference because it can not be taken for granted that there should be two levels of offence , rape and procuring sex by threats . |
| 23 | Another , less known , effect of the tail rotor is that it requires a lateral cyclic trim offset to compensate for the sideways push which it applies ( Fig. 5.10 ) . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | A further possible objection to gradation is that it limits the sentencing powers of the judge . |
| 26 | ‘ One of the things that is often said about the success of British athletics at the moment is that it hides an awful lot that 's wrong . |
| 27 | The first is that it preserves a clear field of fire for my missile troops . |
| 28 | The main advantage of this type of support is that it keeps the joint warm , but it has to be said that it is not really suitable for more recent or severe injuries . |
| 29 | The second main point about Marsh et al. 's approach is that it recognises the expressive order : the theories which young people and others have about their circumstances . |
| 30 | The short answer is that it connoted a radical alternative to the state , an image of statelessness which was a partial , nostalgic and polemical distillation of history . |