Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [conj] [pron] [vb -s] " in BNC.

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1 The other advantages of a freezer are that it enables you to store food that can be brought out in an emergency when you have unexpected guests , or to store certain foods in bulk , such as bread , to save you from frequent trips to the shops .
2 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 …
3 The attractiveness of the cultural explanation of religion is that it appears to account for the diversity in religious practices and beliefs without the necessity to get involved in controversy .
4 The real importance of the Christian religion is that it claims to be true irrespective of how I regard it .
5 The relevance of Christian thinking is that it puts certain limits on the market place , not on the basis that they are politically necessary to secure greater freedom in the market economy , but that they are right and desirable in themselves .
6 The reason the coding metaphor has such currency in contemporary talk about perception is that it seems to suggest a way in which very simple and apparently homogenous elements such as nerve impulses can generate the richness and variety of consciousness .
7 If the campaign has been logical to the strategists , the public perception is that it has been awful .
8 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 .
9 Elrond 's adamant refusal to take the Ring is because he has considered its advantages but is wise enough to see that it would ruin him utterly .
10 It is often said that one of the problems with antiracism is that it knows what it is against , but not what it is for .
11 The first question I want to ask of contemporary antiracism is whether it does not collude in accepting that the problems of ‘ race ’ and racism are somehow peripheral to the substance of political life .
12 The problem with weight loss is that it takes a long time to get what you want .
13 Its positive side is that it implies man 's ability to recognise his aptitude for self-pollution , and thus trigger the dynamic power which first clears the mess through the sacrament of penance ( repentance , confession , satisfaction ) and then works through self-discipline to keep the channels running clear in thought , word and deed .
14 Because the ministry has been brought into being by God , the result is that it bears fruit , whether it is among the gentiles in Pisidian Antioch or the whole group of hearers in Lystra .
15 The most interesting result is that it gives quicker search times for a long word list over the 26-way methods .
16 A frequent comment of observers about a prisoner in for a serious offence like murder is that he shows no remorse .
17 ‘ The irony is that it 's all been dead for us lately .
18 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 .
19 The only real problem with QBasic is that it does n't come with any sort of printed documentation — this is where we can help .
20 But the only reason that it 's called The Dark Ark is because it travels in the shadow of Noah 's Ark .
21 But the only reason that it 's called The Dark Ark is because it travels in the shadow of Noah 's Ark .
22 Her main fault is that she takes too seriously the allusive jokes in Asquith 's letters .
23 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 .
24 A common theme emerging from much of the second tradition of cross-national research is that it becomes possible to examine the complex ways in which national industrial relations variations are bound up with wider processes of political and economic development , particularly the phasing of industrial development ( as in Dore 's work ) , the nature of the state and underlying class relations .
25 The most dramatic thing about the recent dietary fibre research is that it has , to a degree , altered the basis on which experts have been calculating potential weight loss over the past half century or so … the period during which overweight people have been begging diet doctors and dieticians to help them shed that surplus fat .
26 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 .
27 A second limitation of the Keynesian model as we have outlined it in this chapter is that it fails to take adequately into account the problem of inflation .
28 The relevance of Ullman 's study is that he provides a theoretical account of differential ( human ) phenomenology that can be empirically investigated , and which if correct would explain how and why these distinct experiences arise when they do .
29 The appeal of this closely-worked new study is that it presents him as a comprehensive human being .
30 The reason I draw attention to this guidance is that it draws what I think is a crucial distinction for our purposes here today , between the need to assess at the structure plan level the need for a road proposal and in paragraph five thirty one , a clear statement there that consideration of environmental impacts in relation to where the road goes , is a matter for the local plan .
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