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

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31 The advantage of the design is that it allows us to exclude other explanations .
32 The real use of this model linking personality development to subject choice is that it allows us to make predictions about how pupils might react to changes in school science curriculum and school organization .
33 One advantage of the self-concept is that it allows us to examine people as they are , as ‘ wholes ’ , not as a series of personality dimensions .
34 Perhaps the greatest value binocular vision has for us is that it allows us to judge distance .
35 If we look at this client server model today one of the most significant advantages it delivers is that it allows us to run different kinds of applications on different computers .
36 The value of counselling is that it allows you to state your points of view to each other , before a trained and unbiased third party who can help you to resolve the issues that bother you .
37 Another extremely useful feature of the Professional package is that it allows you to rotate a garment piece through any angle .
38 The second is that it allows you to make a fast flank attack on the end of the enemy 's line with the possibility of rolling along it and taking lots of his troops in the flanks .
39 One of the most useful benefits of this is that it allows you to create long filenames .
40 My main complaint about this book , however , is that it encourages us to become not so much rock climbers as consumers .
41 The advantage of this self-imposed discipline is that it forces you deliberately to do all that is involved in learning from experience and at the same time markedly increases the lessons learned from your various activities .
42 The letter may well be a fake but the worrying fact is that it proves there is a dirty tricks campaign designed to blacken the name of the Princess .
43 This intake of information from several sources at once is a complex process , and the value to learners of silent viewing is that it lets them concentrate on one element at a time .
44 It is as if the USA and the USSR were caught in the logic of the Prisoner 's Dilemma or the Chicken Game and the only sense in which this is not mere fiction is that it lets us predict successfully what will happen next .
45 For Emile Benveniste the peculiarity of ‘ histoire ’ as opposed to ‘ discours ’ is that it tells itself , no one ‘ speaks ’ ( 1966:241 ) .
46 Properly speaking , the force ( and also the weakness ) of a personal testimony is that it tells us as much about the person who believes as about the content of what he believes .
47 The first is that it says nothing about W-cells .
48 Finally , one major gap in Oakeshott 's theory is that it says nothing about the fundamental issue of how societas may be reconstituted in the modern age .
49 But what makes this machine really special is that it offers you the chance to create an unlimited range of embroidery designs .
50 The play 's strength is that it draws on Eliot 's earlier work and makes that earlier work transferable to the West End , a triumph in itself ; its weakness , like that of most of the plays , is that it offers us little we can not find more concisely and intensely expressed in the poetry .
51 ‘ But I think the most likely is that it has something to do with a girl . ’
52 One view is that it has something to do with the energy , drive and willingness to take risks associated ( in the ‘ up ’ phase , at least ) with traits underlying manic-depression .
53 Its defining feature is that it has none except , as time goes on , a growing sense of unreality .
54 What she most relishes about no longer having to worry about where the money to pay the rates is coming from is that it gives her the freedom to be creative .
55 The huge advantage of fame is that it gives me , for no proper reason , access to people that I would never otherwise have .
56 The only trouble is that it gives me an American accent .
57 Your Lordship er will see from paragraph three eleven that what the letter er says is as we discussed on the telephone , the advantage of the landlord 's objection is that it gives you time to put your finances in order , if the licence was forthcoming now you would be obliged to complete the transaction which at this stage you are unable to do .
58 The buzzword among those who follow the routine is that it gives you ‘ energy for life . ’
59 One upshot of the tool box view is that it invites us to use data generically with little regard for the theoretical auspices of the method .
60 So one reason [ for reviewing consents ] is it does n't make any difference to the river system ; another is that it means we 're not prepared to follow the thing through on a legal basis .
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