Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [be] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem with New Right Conservatism is that it has to claim to be reducing the influence of the State in the field of welfare , health , income support and education , but has to maintain the strong State in the arena of law and order . |
| 2 | The problem with the old board was that it did not innovate and did not concern itself with exporting English hops . |
| 3 | And of course a familiar populist complaint about modernist fiction is that it does not communicate its meaning to the reader in a clear and comprehensible way . |
| 4 | If one interpretation of the social contract was that it promised the development of the ‘ social wage ’ of state benefits and services in exchange for sacrifice on the side of wages and salaries , this became increasingly problematic after the government turned to the International Monetary Fund to help finance the balance of payments and bolster the pound . |
| 5 | The reason I prefer the Methodist faith is because it has the simplest form . |
| 6 | The most interesting result is that it gives quicker search times for a long word list over the 26-way methods . |
| 7 | The central characteristic of social action is that it has meaning for the people who are involved in it . |
| 8 | If the campaign has been logical to the strategists , the public perception is that it has been awful . |
| 9 | This can create something of a dilemma for the anthropologist and for the discipline itself , for one of the tenets of social research is that it requires detachment . |
| 10 | A senior French official … explains , ‘ What is disturbing in the German attitude is that it betrays a very hegemonial mentality . |
| 11 | Hence the geometric view of the path of a body in free fall is that it follows a geodesic in space time . |
| 12 | One of the reasons for the beneficial effect of dietary fibre is that it reduces the absorption of cholesterol — but there are other ways , too , in which it would appear to perform useful functions in keeping the heart healthy . |
| 13 | The original conception of the public corporation was that it had only to be given its ‘ marching orders ’ by the political authority and could then be left to pursue the ‘ national interest ’ as management saw fit ( SCNI 1968 : 34 ) . |
| 14 | But the chief advantage of the linguistic analogy in any narrative theory is that it allows literature in general and narrative in particular to be read as a self-contained system independent of any realist function . |
| 15 | One of the advantages of the Scottish arrangement is that it does not create martyrs , and the hon. Gentleman should know all about that . |
| 16 | One of the paradoxical achievements of the computational approach is that it makes even very elementary processes seem complex while , at the same time , actually simplifying problems that were once thought complex . |
| 17 | The interesting thing is that it does n't seem to influence our particular habit-forming er , take-up rates , and it does n't influence it because there is this lag period between starting smoking and developing lung cancer or developing heart disease or developing verofa ves vascular disease . |
| 18 | One quality of backbench life which is distracting for those with a professional or commercial training is that it lacks coherence , and there is an aimlessness which is debilitating . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , Wales has its Max Boyces , Tom Jones , Shirley Basseys and Shakin' Stevens , but there are n't many singers who actually sing about the country , and the funny thing is that it 's taken me about thirty years to start writing about where I was brought up . |
| 21 | To Nicholas , the only immediate benefit of that wholly unpleasant discussion was that it shut up both le Grant and Tobie ; and even Astorre , when found and brought to the villa , was unnaturally silent except on matters purely martial . |
| 22 | Part of the considerable achievement of Michael Mann 's imaginative but faithful treatment is that it manages to make acceptable for the 1990s some of the outmoded attitudes of its characters , and yet refuses to go for that eco-trendiness that will make Dances With Wolves look dated by the turn of the century . |
| 23 | An important question to ask about any new movement in social psychology is whether it proposes a universal or particular perspective . |
| 24 | When it comes to making practical use of this new technology , one of the important aspects of acoustic reflectivity is that it does not always paint the same picture as does light . |
| 25 | The essential feature of jobbing production is that it produces single articles or ‘ one-off ’ items . |
| 26 | The advantage of this self-imposed discipline is that it forces you deliberately to do all that is involved in learning from experience and at the same time markedly increases the lessons learned from your various activities . |
| 27 | The chief advantage is that it offers greater protection against predators . |
| 28 | One advantage of the appalling route was that it offered no temptation to diverge from it — since I could not see where I was going anyway , the only thing to do was to follow the compass , and I had waded ditches as I came to them instead of attempting to find easier crossing places . |
| 29 | It is as if the USA and the USSR were caught in the logic of the Prisoner 's Dilemma or the Chicken Game and the only sense in which this is not mere fiction is that it lets us predict successfully what will happen next . |
| 30 | It has often been said — indeed I have said it myself — that the importance of the central dogma is that it provides a molecular explanation for Weismann 's theory of the independence of germ line and soma . |