Example sentences of "the [noun] [be] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well yeah but the reason I think you can condemn the excesses is because it 's |
| 2 | A further problem for the winner was that it appeared almost certain that the new President would have no more than 30 per cent of the total vote , and would , therefore , lack the sort of unequivocal popular mandate which Aquino had enjoyed . |
| 3 | The reason why some people take a long time to learn the Technique is because it is much simpler than they think . |
| 4 | A reply from the Ministry is expected within days , and all the signs are that it will be positive . |
| 5 | Counterfeiting is a multi million pound industry and all the signs are that it 's growing at an alarming rate . |
| 6 | All the signs are that it made virtually no impact at all . |
| 7 | All the signs are that it will be a holding speech , waiting until December for the first of the combined spending and taxing Budgets , with , maybe , some radical tax reforms thrown in . |
| 8 | The major limitation of the measure is that it is theoretically open-ended — it is not possible to say that there will be no further citations to a particular thesis in the future . |
| 9 | The historical importance of the measure was that it gave , for the first time , a publicly financed cash benefit to a group of the needy , free from the deliberately induced stigma associated with the Poor Law . |
| 10 | A salient characteristic of the internal structure of' the elite is that it is rational , in the sense that it is structured so as to achieve in a purposeful and conscious manner the objectives of the elite as a whole . |
| 11 | All three party leaders have their admirers and the feeling on the ranks is that it will be a hung Parliament . |
| 12 | Yeah econ what appears to be the case is that it 's economic reasons that are the main drive , the main driving factors from er the migrant . |
| 13 | erm now the strongest reason , I think , for believing that that is not the case is that it does n't come from the fossil record , it comes simply from looking at organisms today . |
| 14 | The main point of the case was that it involved domestic property where the client would suffer ( as a private purchaser ) a relatively great loss if the report were negligent , while the risk that would have been undertaken by the surveyor , if he had accepted liability for negligence , would have been relatively low , since it was a routine survey of domestic property , and for him , as a businessman , the value of the property in question was not relatively a great amount of money . |
| 15 | The first thing to note about the preface is that it needs to be read . |
| 16 | What 's so unusual about the Calibra is that it is n't merely a two-plus-two , it 's a full four-seater . |
| 17 | It appears to me that far the most probable explanation of the decision is that it was a decision as to the true construction of the Act … |
| 18 | The decision was that it was unlawful direct discrimination because Mr James had been treated differently than if he had been a woman . |
| 19 | The difficulty is that it does not , one does not — not in one 's art , not in one 's life . |
| 20 | The difficulty is that it is impossible to draw the line , by appealing to any abstract ideal of the market , between the degree of constraint and the degree of discretion which will be accorded to corporate managers through , for example , the device of the take-over bid . |
| 21 | The difficulty is that it is usually a mixture of both — in which case it all gets blamed on external causes . |
| 22 | The worry is that it could release a host of uncontainable resentments . |
| 23 | He referred unashamedly to certain usages , as recommended by Errol Flynn : ‘ The property of the drug is that it inflames the mucous membranes , such as those in a lady 's genital regions . |
| 24 | One advantage of the Chart is that it allows one to represent both complete analyses ( as inactive edges ) and partial analyses ( as active edges ) . |
| 25 | The other side of the coin is that it is very satisfying and rewarding because it stretches me in every possible way . |
| 26 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that , although I welcome the economic measures to assist the Soviet Union — granted , as he rightly says , because of the courage of President Yeltsin in implementing his reforms — the other side of the coin is that it would have been a terrible mistake if we had jumped the gun and granted the assistance before the reforms were implemented ? |
| 27 | The problem with The Guardian is that it does n't look like a newspaper any more . |
| 28 | And although this research is industry-specific , the hope is that it offers insights and design lessons applicable in many areas . |
| 29 | It is still uncorrupted and the hope is that it can now generate the rebirth of German myth . |
| 30 | As you now from your own experience , such events take a long time to plan , and the hope is that it will all come together on the day ! |