Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] that it [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In her foreword , Ruth Richardson , the Minister of Finance ( and not the most popular Kiwi politician ) , expresses it thus : ‘ The special advantages of accrual accounting are that it distinguishes between capital and current spending , and that it takes better account of the cost of current policies for future generations … |
| 2 | The real importance of the Christian religion is that it claims to be true irrespective of how I regard it . |
| 3 | Mildew is not so very difficult to stop in the early stages , and there are several fungicides that will give it a severe check — all the chemical manufacturers have their own products and trade names which , like everything else , are constantly being improved and changed — but by far the most important point to bear in mind is that it has to be hit early and repeatedly . |
| 4 | The difficulty with all policy-oriented research is that it begins by defining ‘ problems ’ and then by investigation helps to create that which lt wishes to observe' This type of research helps to create a cognitive revolution in its subjects and thus produces its expected findings . |
| 5 | Our dilemma is that it speaks of a level of separation from the world , the flesh and human reality which has already proved far too harmful to the churches in general and for women in particular for us to consider returning to it . |
| 6 | An alternative is that it consists of a few per cent silicates , all the rest being iron-rich compounds such as FeS and FeO , which have densities between those of metallic iron and silicates . |
| 7 | The advantage to the offeror over a share offer with a cash alternative is that it knows in advance that it will only have to make available fixed pools of each type of consideration . |
| 8 | The overall direction of small talk is that it starts in the general and becomes more specific . |
| 9 | Obese people tend to have higher levels of insulin than those of normal weight , and the disadvantage of insulin is that it tends to further encourage the body to deposit rather than burn up fat . |
| 10 | A feature of project management is that it interacts with the company functions managed on the minimum variety basis referred to under ‘ functional management ’ . |
| 11 | Another point that might be made about the relationship between the ‘ form-words ’ of grammar and the ‘ full words ’ of lexis is that it follows from the kind of auxiliary , context-complementary function of grammar being proposed here that the proportional occurrence of these words will vary in different kinds of discourse . |
| 12 | The upshot is that it looks as if major and fundamental matters are at stake about the very nature of sociology itself and that , accordingly , a choice has to be made , and made soon . |
| 13 | Mike Johnson , Trafalgar House 's Open Learning Manager , said ‘ The benefit of EBC is that it builds into a permanent resource library that can be continually used and referred to ’ . |
| 14 | The danger of this opinion is that it tends towards Manichaeanism , the heresy which says that Good and Evil are equal and opposite and the universe is a battlefield ; however the Inklings may have had a certain tolerance for that ( see C. S. Lewis 's Mere Christianity , Book 2 , section 2 ) . |
| 15 | The unique and dangerous features of the listeria bacterium are that it appears to be transmitted through meat or even vegetables grown in areas fertilised by the manure of infected animals . |
| 16 | The major problem with the QWERTY keyboard is that it needs to be learnt . |
| 17 | Apart from the obvious point that it fails to produce uniformity its principal defect is that it leads to the application of a particular national law which is likely to have been devised for domestic transactions and may well be ill-suited to those which are international in character . |
| 18 | The danger in utilizing a theory of ‘ mind ’ to solve the problem of grounding the sociology of knowledge is that it depends on concepts that relate to individual and inaccessible behaviour — ‘ thought ’ , ‘ consciousness ’ , etc . |
| 19 | The good news is that it works for all ages . |
| 20 | Most would agree that the professed raison d'être of the CpSU is the creation of a society ‘ of a new type ’ ; the basis of its claim to infallibility is that it stands in the vanguard of this process . |
| 21 | But the problem with taking such an a priori stance is that it clashes with the nature of Christianity . |
| 22 | One thing about the strategy is that it seems to me the ultimate goal is perhaps to get rid of the warlords |
| 23 | One feature of the genetic decoding mechanism is that it appears to be irreversible . |
| 24 | Although the machine is available and was shipping in the US at the end of 1992 , the latest information available at the time of writing is that it ships in the UK on 1st February 1993 , and the list price is £449 . |
| 25 | One of the few established facts about psychotic illness is that it runs in families and only the most stubborn social theorist could now deny that one reason for this is that the disposition to it , at least , is partly inherited . |
| 26 | ‘ The beauty of bonsai is that it appeals to all ages , ’ he says . |
| 27 | The great claim made for perfect competition is that it leads to efficiency . |
| 28 | The fourth merit of Johnson 's approach is that it allows for mobility of jobs between categories , although he does not attach as much significance as Hughes ( 1958 ) to the efforts of the ‘ professionals ’ themselves in this regard . |
| 29 | The fundamental weakness of this approach is that it relies to some extent on the researchers ' imagination as to what the future may hold , particularly about what new goods and services might emerge , either directly from the new technology or simply because its higher productivity may give consumers greater spending power and so create demands for hitherto undreamed-of goods and services . |
| 30 | Seamans said it was very rare that violence broke out at American football , baseball or basketball games , ‘ and what is the biggest concern is that it seems to be organised violence at European soccer games which is something we have never experienced , ’ he added . |