Example sentences of "[is] [conj] it [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | The danger of this pragmatic approach is that it encourages too ready an acceptance of historical costs , and thus change becomes difficult . |
| 33 | The odd thing about this new lava plug is that it went straight up , like a piston in a cylinder , wearing on top a thick cap of mud and clay , which had originally been deposited in a crater lake and had formed the ground surface prior to all the upheaval . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | The view from many of the schools which took part , is that it tells only a fraction of the story . |
| 36 | The ICRF is such a worthy cause and what makes it particularly so is that it uses just 8p out of every £1 for administration , meaning 92p really goes on advancing the research , ’ she said . |
| 37 | Its distinguishing feature is that it uses only a very few basic operators — typically just one , called modus ponens , or some equivalent — which are very well understood and reliable . |
| 38 | The trouble with the entire left is that it talks too much . |
| 39 | She is , admittedly , pregnant at the time , but the problem with this familiar literary symbol is that it has rather more inside it than the play does . |
| 40 | The problem with a literal approach is that it has frequently been used to persuade a court that wholly unlikely consequences might arise and that the court should , in the light of those consequences conclude that the restraint is unreasonable . |
| 41 | But the truth is that it has entirely disappeared , and , try though they might , later scholars have been unsuccessful in establishing any convincing connection with any extant instrument . |
| 42 | The latest news on the revised Assisted Areas map is that it has still to be sent to the European Commission for approval ; it is not known how long this process will take . |
| 43 | The additional attraction of moving to a central control , for some , is that it has often been argued , and increasingly so over the past 20 years , that debt charges do not measure ‘ cost of service ’ and should not be charged to detailed revenue accounts anyway . |
| 44 | We should , however , recollect that one of the reasons for the strength of the City of London is that it has consistently followed a very open policy , which is not always followed on the continent and elsewhere . |
| 45 | The main attraction of B&B is that it has always been far cheaper than hotels and this is still the case . |
| 46 | United States proponents of the maquilas argue that these jobs are bound to go anyway and that the advantage of the maquila industry on the border is that it has always used a high proportion of US materials , components and services . |
| 47 | The answer , of course , is that it has never happened , and if it ever did there would be immediate and radical constitutional change to ensure it never happened again . |
| 48 | But the main reason why defensiveness is not enough , is that it has never been enough . |
| 49 | One of the peculiarities of atropine is that it acts differently on different people . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | The answer is that it comes mid-way between them — which tells us nothing about which of the other two came first . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | So even if we agree that abolition was his intention and that that intention would have failed , if we consider also that it was mistaken anyway , we need pursue the point no further , except to add this : granted that the evil of insufficiently regulated competition is that it leads ultimately to the vicious exploitation of employees , the point can hardly be made of industrial co-operatives . |
| 54 | The major drawback with the Byrne approach , however , is that it provides only an incidental guide to the way in which the services might be allocated between different types of local authority . |
| 55 | A further and very different way in which Figure 9 is incomplete is that it deals only with the processing of words and has nothing to say about the processing of non-words . |
| 56 | The theoretical advantage of this technique is that it deals directly with the oesophageal varices without affecting liver perfusion : a prospective study has shown it to be superior to standard and distal splenorenal shunts in patients with portal hypertension secondary to schistosomiasis . |
| 57 | And of course , the thing about fun is that it exists solely in retrospect , in retroscendence ; when you 're having fun you are perforce abandoned , unthinking . |
| 58 | ‘ The real value of the CANZ series is that it brings together a group of national level players for two weeks with games against consistently top level opposition which would be difficult to duplicate anywhere else . |
| 59 | The problem in West Yorkshire is that it costs more there to put a police man on the beat , and the authority spends more per head of the population . |
| 60 | 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 . |