Example sentences of "[be] [conj] it [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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31 But from what little I do know of it , my understanding is that it basically dramatises the same power relationships , and so seems to appeal to the same inequalities .
32 All I do know is that it truly happened . ’
33 The only problem is that it now takes a baffling turn .
34 Whatever it 's called , though , one of the most gloomy facts about it is that it now spends more on weapons than on health and education put together
35 The biggest advantage of this new probe is that it now allows samples to be taken continuously from a conscious , living organism , and these samples can be analysed without further preparation .
36 THE NATIONAL MARRIAGE GUIDANCE COUNCIL ( now called RELATE ) recognised a long time ago that the fabric of society has changed and one of the reasons for the organisation 's change of name is that it now deals with all personal crisis situations .
37 The only real difference is that it now seems to have been taken over by the 22 clubs who , having escaped Football League control , no longer find their pursuit of commercial success frustrated by the decisive voting power of their poor relations .
38 The first is that it now seems the £200 must all be for personal injury or death and not just include such damages .
39 The main thing to realise with trailer driving is that it only takes one mistake to wreck the trailer and a nice glider , as well as possibly writing off a new car .
40 The point about measurement is that it only occurs spasmodically .
41 The drawback of multi-threading is that it only allows whole processes to run on individual CPUs and is unsuited for particularly large applications .
42 THE MOST remarkable thing about Graham Watkins 's Macbeth is that it only has two women .
43 The problem is that it only works if your PC has a fax card and is set up as a fax machine .
44 THE trouble with the newly published list of the richest women in Britain is that it only confirms men 's worst prejudices .
45 The key point here is that it only attempts to link the islands into a loosely coupled way , and avoids the expensive development work needed to synchronise the two systems together exactly .
46 The reason IntelliDraw is so novel is that it actually tries to help you draw .
47 The other is that it actually fosters in you in-built critical faculties , so you can actually edit and shape your work as you go along , having been taught by the master — the masters of literature — not just the professors , the great writers . ’
48 The good thing about the president 's intervention is that it publicly recognised a problem that needed solution the very antithesis of WRU custom and practice for most of the past dozen or more ostrich era .
49 The attraction of technology transfer to SMEs is that it often involves incremental improvements to products and processes which offer a rapid return and reduced risk .
50 An odd result of this ruling in the moist atmosphere of the islands is that it sometimes allows company pilots to land , but not take off — a reversal of the usual situation .
51 A significant aspect of her work is that it always broaches the boundaries between the traditional disciplines of philosophy , psychoanalysis , literary , and art theory ; the implications it holds for each are touched on by the essays in this collection ( for instance , Ainley , ‘ The Ethics of Sexual Difference ’ ; O'Connor , ‘ The An-Arche of Psychotherapy ’ ; Minow-Pinkney , ‘ Virginia Woolf : ‘ Seen from a Foreign Land' ’ ; and Burgin , ‘ Geometry and Abjection ’ ) .
52 One of the criticisms sometimes levelled at the whole group drama approach is that it always seems to involve lots of meetings and discussions , and that this disadvantages those children whose grasp of language is uncertain ; that this " type " of drama can rapidly become nothing more than a heated discussion involving only the teacher and the more articulate members of the class .
53 The problem with source code for example — even standardised and tested source code — is that it always ends up going through a variety of different compilation systems .
54 The problem with source code for example — even standardised and tested source code — is that it always ends up going through a variety of different compilation systems .
55 The most obvious feature of innovation is that it always comes with surprise .
56 And he 's erm when we were thinking about tax planning , I was thinking that if a , a , a qualifying endowment , if it 's run for ten years , the one big advantage is that it always pays without deduction of tax .
57 The trouble with [ a view that what is needed is a re-evaluation of the feminine ] is that it still leaves uncriticised the whole association of particular qualities with the masculine and others with the feminine …
58 A second objection is that it still has not taken the point seriously enough about the rights of pupils to autonomy and freedom in reflectiveness and choice of commitment .
59 Part of the reason the Open Software Foundation missed the boat with its Architecture Neutral Distribution Format technology , according to observers , is that it wrongly targeted independent software vendors as the home for its solution .
60 This property of superposability both enshrines the pure mathematician 's abstract concept of what a vector space is and it also provides the perfect way in which to mirror the nature of quantum mechanical states .
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