Example sentences of "[is] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 61 | The interest of this triple acclamation is that it sounds emphatically and oddly hellenistic ( cp . |
| 62 | The case for loans has been most strongly argued by a group at the London School of Economics whose main criticism of an entirely grant-based approach is that it favours better-off families , and as it is currently operated it leaves many students in poverty . |
| 63 | The benefit of creating such groups is that it breaks down the multifarious functions of a branch committee into discreet areas , to which special attention can be given . |
| 64 | His view of this " delirious " material ( note the etymology of délire ) is that it breaks the rules of language ( grammar , syntax , semantic cohesion ) but that it does not mean nothing . |
| 65 | Indeed , its strength is that it casts a caustic eye over the club scene , dealing with familiar situations with enough self-deprecation and sarcasm to stem any pretension . |
| 66 | Winch 's criticism of this way of looking at morality , as we have shown , is that it separates the person who acts from the world in which he acts , and a man has to be shown that it is worthwhile for him to act morally . |
| 67 | One of the central features of the company is that it separates out the functions of ownership and management . |
| 68 | Where data analysis differs from conventional systems analysis is that it separates the data structures from the applications which use them . |
| 69 | The key value of this interpretation is that it separates the internal ( impairment ) and external ( Disability ) causes of disadvantage . |
| 70 | ‘ And if you pick one of these creatures up and place it a little distance away on the surface of the water , all its fellows will see is that it vanished , and reappeared elsewhere . |
| 71 | The cute remark about the Irish tour is that it lasted a week too long . |
| 72 | The main criticism about information provided to employees is that it arrives too late . |
| 73 | The first characteristic of a constitution … is that it constitutes — or reconstitutes — a system of government … |
| 74 | The information available to me , provided by Liverpool city council , is that it accepted 397 households as homeless in the second quarter of this year . |
| 75 | The difficulty is that it does not , one does not — not in one 's art , not in one 's life . |
| 76 | The first thing to notice about functionalism is that it does not fare any better than behaviourism in providing an account of what it is that V knows and BS does not , for BS could know all about V 's functional or covertly behavioural states ; so there is no lack of knowledge that his deficit could consist in . |
| 77 | Another of the characteristics of ‘ The Thing ’ is that it does n't have a rational cause . |
| 78 | The first response is that it does n't matter very much . |
| 79 | But the trouble with the picture is that it does absolutely nothing with its various prognostications except play the fool with them . |
| 80 | What is good about the current production is that it does not seek to tilt the play either way : it allows us to decide where we stand . |
| 81 | The important thing to remember is that it does n't matter in the slightest what this garment looks like , as long as it boasts practicality and water-resistant qualitites . |
| 82 | But the trouble with climate modification of the sort imposed by the greenhouse effect is that it does not move naturally to a new , warmer status quo which will remain undisturbed for the next thousand years or so . |
| 83 | The answer is that it does , and that the justifications for doing so have been set out above — not so much because rape is a serious offence , but rather because ascertainment of the facts is so easy that there should be little substantive unfairness to defendants . |
| 84 | The only difference between its policies and those of CND proper is that it does not campaign directly for Britain 's withdrawal from Nato . |
| 85 | Labour has the culture of a Utopian party ; the strength of the Conservative Party is that it does not . |
| 86 | The problem with this letter , apart from the fact that the only copy available is unsigned , is that it does not agree with the timescale of events . |
| 87 | The view that will be taken is that it does matter very much , although not quite in the way in which previous writers about environmental doom have envisaged . |
| 88 | An alternative line of defence offered by the National Bank for its failure to curb inflation ( EP , 10 November 1986 ) is that it does not have the power to prevent the money supply from growing faster than its planned rate . |
| 89 | One of the chief attractions of the Reader 's Digest DOUBLE PAYOUT PLAN , however , is that it does more than offer you family financial security in the event of your death . |
| 90 | One distinct advantage of metformin over the sulphonylureas in obese Type 2 patients is that it does tend to suppress appetite and certainly therapy is usually associated with weight loss ( Taylor et al , 1982 ) . |