Example sentences of "of [adj] [be] that it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The real point about the events of 1558 is that it was a missed opportunity for the Catholics , missed because Mary of Guise still temporized , still would not put the weight of the ‘ state ’ behind that of the church . |
| 2 | One thing to be said of that is that it does not at all follow , from the fact that we can not give particular descriptions of items that fall within a set , that we can not satisfactorily conceive of and describe the set . |
| 3 | Now that can happen both ways , but it 's very important that one feature of that is that it makes somebody uncomfortable . |
| 4 | The weakness of this is that it fails to view the implications of the spending when it makes its impact but only when the spending actually takes place . |
| 5 | One advantage of this is that it 's not always the most expensive guitars that sound the best . |
| 6 | The corollary of this is that it is women who are expected to undertake the reproduction of labour-power within the family , whether they also have waged jobs or not . |
| 7 | They do relate this to the capitalist character of industry , and to the market economy , but the restructuring school would argue that the implication of this is that it is important to specify the particular capitalist nature of industry . |
| 8 | One of the most useful benefits of this is that it allows you to create long filenames . |
| 9 | To return to our earlier example , a consequence of this is that it will not be possible to claim on valid grounds that " Men exist " or rather " actually exist " , reduces to , and can be replaced tout court by " ( Ex ) x is a man . |
| 10 | But a corollary of this is that it is in principle impossible to describe accurately any x as numerically identical at any given stage of its existence , until , that is , its life-cycle has been completed , for its numerical identity depends upon all its properties . |
| 11 | The disadvantage of this is that it creates all the lingering resentment and hostility of ‘ win/lose ’ situation . |
| 12 | Install a hard drive instead of one of the floppies — the advantage of this is that it is the least expensive but the major disadvantage is my complete lack of technical knowledge and the need to purchase and install the controller which I understand my machine does not have . |
| 13 | The advantage of this is that it enables us to start focusing on content . |
| 14 | An important consequence of this is that it should lead to a great improvement in the quality of instructions and warnings produced by manufacturers attached to their products ( see Vacwell Engineering Co Ltd v BDH Chemicals Ltd [ 1971 ] 1 QB 88 ) . |
| 15 | The drawback of multi-threading is that it only allows whole processes to run on individual CPUs and is unsuited for particularly large applications . |
| 16 | One of these is that it is easier to do the sum if one deals with histories in what is called imaginary time rather than in ordinary , real time . |
| 17 | The most important of these is that it will almost certainly not equal the actual return from holding the bond even if the bond is held to maturity . |
| 18 | The saddest thing of all is that it is hard to see how a different outcome was ever possible . |