Example sentences of "[noun] be [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | One of the work 's main strengths is that it covers all social positions . |
| 32 | But the only reason that it 's called The Dark Ark is because it travels in the shadow of Noah 's Ark . |
| 33 | But the only reason that it 's called The Dark Ark is because it travels in the shadow of Noah 's Ark . |
| 34 | My only reservation with his classification of roles is that it reflects a Western preoccupation with task behaviours . |
| 35 | The loss should not fall on the totally innocent taxpayer whose only fault is that it paid what the legislature improperly said was due . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | The appeal of this closely-worked new study is that it presents him as a comprehensive human being . |
| 42 | But Sir David said yesterday : ‘ We 've always had doubts about this policy , and the thing that now confirms our doubts is that it has n't worked . ’ |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | It has been stated that one of the justifications for the American business judgment rule is that it limits ‘ judicial intrusiveness with respect to private-sector decisionmaking ’ . |
| 45 | The rationale for this quantity rule is that it implies that no agents are forced to buy or sell quantities in excess of their wishes , so the rule preserves the principle of voluntary exchange . |
| 46 | The general rule is if it looks bad , it probably is bad , so let's get it right . |
| 47 | Our dilemma is that it speaks of a level of separation from the world , the flesh and human reality which has already proved far too harmful to the churches in general and for women in particular for us to consider returning to it . |
| 48 | The point of the idiom of companionship is that it allows individuals to form and to dissolve ties with one another with greater ease and frequency than would the idiom of shared substance . |
| 49 | However , a consequence of so extending the scope of the imperative is that it becomes relevant only to the logic of value judgments , and has no direct bearing on how far a creature adapted to heed only what pleases it can push towards awareness against the grain of organic functioning . |
| 50 | An advantage of this type of parser is that it performs recognition in linear time . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | A characteristic feature of the placebo effect is that it does not last all that long : it is usually only a matter of weeks , and two to six months is about the most that can be expected : If a patient responds to a new treatment and is still well after a year , it is unlikely to be a placebo effect . |
| 53 | As explains : ‘ The primary reason for promoting a positive quality attitude is that it enhances Scotland overall and the secondary effect is that it enhances each company as well . |
| 54 | Much of the attraction of NVOCC carriage is that it offers discounted rates , especially for less than a full container load of cargo . |
| 55 | One of the interesting things about my reminiscing is that it stirred up memories for a lot of other people , too . |
| 56 | The major attraction of a fully-fledged GIS is that it gives access to large volumes of cartographic and attribute data which can be manipulated according to the needs of the user and the flexibility of the system software . |
| 57 | The general principle underlying the definition of the term is that it excludes physical property which a potential purchaser can inspect . |
| 58 | It has often been said — indeed I have said it myself — that the importance of the central dogma is that it provides a molecular explanation for Weismann 's theory of the independence of germ line and soma . |
| 59 | An alternative is that it consists of a few per cent silicates , all the rest being iron-rich compounds such as FeS and FeO , which have densities between those of metallic iron and silicates . |
| 60 | The advantage to the offeror over a share offer with a cash alternative is that it knows in advance that it will only have to make available fixed pools of each type of consideration . |