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

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1 The other advantages of a freezer are that it enables you to store food that can be brought out in an emergency when you have unexpected guests , or to store certain foods in bulk , such as bread , to save you from frequent trips to the shops .
2 It is often said that one of the problems with antiracism is that it knows what it is against , but not what it is for .
3 The loss should not fall on the totally innocent taxpayer whose only fault is that it paid what the legislature improperly said was due .
4 The appeal of this closely-worked new study is that it presents him as a comprehensive human being .
5 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 .
6 Another bonus is that it leaves your hair smelling of mint rather than yukky ammonia !
7 The real problem with this gallery is that it confirms what the public has always thought : that designers are a bunch of elitists who do n't live in the real world .
8 The huge advantage of fame is that it gives me , for no proper reason , access to people that I would never otherwise have .
9 Another extremely useful feature of the Professional package is that it allows you to rotate a garment piece through any angle .
10 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 .
11 The buzzword among those who follow the routine is that it gives you ‘ energy for life . ’
12 But perhaps the general , median view that was held by the garrison of this strange behaviour of the Collector was that it signified nothing more than his eccentricity .
13 C's attraction is that it lends itself to structured programming more readily than assembly language programming and it is within a C language shall that the assembly language modules should be inserted .
14 Perhaps the most potent advantage for adult education is that it sees itself catering for developing learning needs over the whole adult age range .
15 Asked why Mr Clinton appeared to have stopped using the word ‘ sacrifice ’ and started using the word ‘ contribute ’ to describe what he would ask of Americans in his plan , Ms Myers said : ‘ The problem with the word sacrifice is that it implies nobody gets anything out of it . ’
16 The major challenge of this development is that it makes it possible to move the emphasis from teaching to learning .
17 The other is that it makes it easier to encourage prickly China and France to join in .
18 The main reason Clare did not allow credit was because it complicated her bookkeeping .
19 The attraction of the concept was that it allowed him to square a number of circles at once .
20 The advantage of this argument is that it allows one to define literature 's relation to reality in a much more positive and coherent way : both literature and the reality which it represents are of the same order and , according to Bakhtin , this order is ideological .
21 The only trouble is that it gives me an American accent .
22 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 .
23 What is important about this contribution to linguistic theory is that it allows one to analyze the personal or ‘ subjective ’ elements of language without having to resort to any real correlative outside language .
24 Also , pragmatists draw the very different moral that the test of a theory is whether it organizes our beliefs into an elegant and suggestive web of belief .
25 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 .
26 The importance of this part of the debate is that it illuminates one crucially important difference between , on this occasion , Devlin and Hart : that is , the disagreement over whether or not it is possible for there to be areas of behaviour which , whilst they might be considered to be ‘ immoral ’ , could also be considered to be ‘ private ’ .
27 The beauty of this method is that it makes you aware of the most harmonic choices that are avaible to you on any chosen scale degree .
28 Perhaps the most important element in Florey 's brief occupation of the Sheffield chair was that it brought him into close contact with Edward Mellanby ( see Chapter 7 ) .
29 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 .
30 The clue to the GL 's satisfying performance is that it develops its maximum torque at a modest 2,500 rpm , pulling strongly from low revs , making it an easy-going cruiser without the need for constant recourse to the five-speed gearbox .
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