Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] [conj] it [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One other aspect of hovering in a wind is that it will tend to mask any offset in the tail rotor trim . |
| 2 | The first merit of P. N. Furbank 's admirable biography is that it should revive interest in Diderot . |
| 3 | One additional benefit of adjustable string tension is that it can allow tightening to compensate for natural string slackening . |
| 4 | In my view , the value of research is that it can help teachers to define more clearly the problems that they themselves must solve . |
| 5 | A further element of contrast built into the research is that it will explore how inter-agency policies are negotiated and enacted at a local level , in a small number of tightly defined neighbourhoods which will be chosen in such a way as to reflect demographic variations , differences in housing stock and employment , varying local crime rates , ethnic diversity , and other relevant factors . |
| 6 | As far as the marine conservation society is concerned , the tragedy is that it may have taken an ecological disaster to finally make people listen . |
| 7 | Part of the beauty of scientific study is that it can take you in a number of different directions , expected and unexpected . |
| 8 | As a basic point , you should enquire whether the scheme is contracted in or out of SERPS and whether the intention is that it should remain so in the future . |
| 9 | Once the settlor has put the property into the settlement the general rule is that it will cease to be his for all tax purposes . |
| 10 | ‘ What is most worrying about this kind of action is that it could complicate matters if someone else were to decide to intervene , say in Romania . |
| 11 | Its only disadvantage is that it will project the curtain fixture further into the room and when the curtains are open the batten will be visible . |
| 12 | The second condition is that it must specify the conditions under which the behaviour will occur . |
| 13 | Your psychological view of marriage is that it can destroy a relationship . ’ |
| 14 | One of the attractions of this work is that it would employ a lot of labour . |
| 15 | The rationale of the overall programme of work is that it will have clear implications for policy and the prevention of problems associated with the consumption of addictive substances and clear implications also for the social sciences . |
| 16 | The real difficulty about this type of individual help is that it may provide immediate relief but not necessarily the understanding to cope with the same or similar situations in the future . |
| 17 | One objection to the BBC 's plan is that it would occupy the whole band from 88 to 108 MHz , leaving no room for new developments such as ‘ community radio ’ . |
| 18 | An additional advantage of the ring core is that it will accept more than one overwound pickup coil and they have different orientations to the external magnetic field . |
| 19 | Carr : Well , there will be some new jobs , David , but the really important issue is that it will mean permanent jobs . |
| 20 | We can only reach the conclusion — which will be noted by the further education sector in Scotland — that the reason behind the Government 's proposal for a further education funding council is that it might help the Bill 's passage . |
| 21 | ‘ The question is whether it will satisfy all the requirements of openness . ’ |
| 22 | Expo '92 is forecast to exceed all records as the biggest exhibition of its kind , but the important question is whether it will live up to long term expectations . |
| 23 | So whatever verb is chosen will determine what functional predicate/argument structure is created — for HIT , it will be HIT ( AGENT , GOAL , INSTRUMENT ) because part of the lexical specification for the verb HIT is that it must have three arguments and they must be AGENT , ACTED-UPON , INSTRUMENT . |
| 24 | Even though the statutory offence that replaces it reduces the public order characteristics of the offence and raises doubts as to whether affray is properly characterised as a public order offence at all , the likelihood is that it will continue to be employed in the prosecution of spontaneous brawls that result in no great injury in circumstances where the evidence of specific offences against the person is deficient . |
| 25 | Current high levels of unemployment can be accounted for without recourse to an explanation from technology ; consumer appetite for yet more goods and services still appears to be insatiable ; and even those economists who advance reasons why new technology might cause unemployment at some point in the future acknowledge that just at present the likelihood is that it will cause labour shortages rather than an overall labour surplus . |
| 26 | Conversely , publication in breach of a " ID " notice is not , of itself , a criminal offence although the likelihood is that it will fall within the ambit of the legislation . |
| 27 | However , the most striking difference is that it would see not a motion picture , but a succession of still frames , rather like a slide show . |
| 28 | But he winced at that , and she thought , this has nothing to do with ego , and continued , ‘ I 'm thinking that really the big difference is that it must make it more difficult to handle things . |
| 29 | Ordering and receipt of materials for the school library is not normally a large part of the school librarian 's work but it can prove time-consuming and one advantage of having a microcomputerbased acquisitions package is that it will help to free the school librarian for other more curriculum-related work and will allow easy access to books and other items on order using a program which can be searched in various ways . |
| 30 | The basis of the traditional antipathy of churches to gambling is that it can encourage greed , become addictive and is looking for a reward that has not been earned either by virtue or by effort . |