Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [is] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The special feature of chirp radar is that it does not have a fixed carrier frequency during each shriek . |
| 2 | The problem with weight loss is that it takes a long time to get what you want . |
| 3 | The motivation and advantage of using such a method as a research tool is that it finds a middle way between idiosyncratic subjectivism and claims to objectivity that have been increasingly questioned in the past twenty or so years ( by writers from Derrida ( 1975 ) to Lakoff ( 1987 ) ) . |
| 4 | When we five and a half years of life of the coral from Isabella Island in the Galapagos the remarkable thing about this coral record is that it represents nearly three hundred and eighty years of continuous coral growth . |
| 5 | One of the interesting aspects of the executive search business is that it has enabled some people , who have not been truly successful at other careers they have undertaken , to be more than successful in executive search . |
| 6 | A particular advantage of the telephone interview method is that it makes less demands on the time of managers than conventional ‘ face-to-face ’ interviews . |
| 7 | The justification of the partnership approach is that it encourages the notions of quality and excellence , whilst providing a framework within which a wide range of activities can be given a sense of coherence and wholeness . |
| 8 | The advantage of the échelle des crus system is that it recognises a distinction in quality between two undeniably fine and relatively similar growths . |
| 9 | The odd thing about this new lava plug is that it went straight up , like a piston in a cylinder , wearing on top a thick cap of mud and clay , which had originally been deposited in a crater lake and had formed the ground surface prior to all the upheaval . |
| 10 | This is probably one of the most difficult factors for the young diabetic to accept and undoubtedly a great advantage of continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion is that it permits the patient greater flexibility in relation to the timing of meals with manual boluses of insulin 30 minutes beforehand . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The importance of skill theory is that it relates human performance to systems concepts and to individual differences . |
| 13 | A second problem with compensation theory is that it ignores the period during which any changes are taking place — the transitional period . |
| 14 | The advantage of the public law model is that it facilitates the achievement of the statutory purposes and the development of one clearly understood set of general rules and principles . |
| 15 | One obvious disadvantage of a telephone survey is that it does not represent people who are too poor to afford telephones . |
| 16 | Its only advantage over BBCBASIC(Z80) 's normal error handling is that it gives the error number ; it would probably not be used in practice . |
| 17 | As James Tobin pointed out in his comments on the Coen and Hickman paper , a feature of their approach which exposes it to criticism from those macroeconomists who accept some variant of the NAIRU hypothesis is that it lacks a coherent explanation of the relationship between unemployment , be it Keynesian , classical or some mixture of the two , and inflation . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | One thing about leadership through team work is that it puts a much greater emphasis on training for the purposes of delegation and the word that they use to describe that piece is empowerment . |
| 21 | The main disadvantage of a Schedule E income tax charge is that it arises before the managers realise any cash from their shares to pay the tax , and that the benefit of indexation , which would apply were the gains to be subject to capital gains tax rather than income tax , will not be available . |
| 22 | The second point about the leisure economy is that it places people 's use of their ‘ free ’ time at the centre of capitalists ' ( and governments ' ) concern . |
| 23 | The sorry thing about teacher training is that it remains within such a restricting framework . |
| 24 | The big advantage of film or video in teacher training is that it gives trainees access to a range of classrooms they could not otherwise enter . |
| 25 | One of the major concerns about the tax system is whether it discourages or encourages the growth of the economy . |
| 26 | The problem with accident prevention is that it does n't occur to anyone until it 's too late . |
| 27 | The advantage of the group system is that it ensures that members of the respective parties put forward clear cut views at the meetings of the council . |
| 28 | The advantage of our body clock is that it improves the way in which we fit into a rhythmic environment ( this was considered in more detail in Chapter 8 ) . |
| 29 | The disadvantage of product departmentation is that it creates a new form of management and therefore increases the overhead costs and managerial complexity of the organisation . |
| 30 | The parties ' best current estimate of night traffic is that it has dropped from 190 to 29 movements per night since Norfolk Line 's departure . |