Example sentences of "its [noun sg] [is] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its advantage is that it allows a far deeper and richer assessment to be made than the pen and paper exercise . |
| 2 | Although methadone can be given in police custody only under supervision , its advantage is that it needs to be given only once daily . |
| 3 | Any initial work in multicultural mathematics may be seen to be tokenistic , especially if the only obvious reason for its inclusion is that it represents other cultures . |
| 4 | Its importance is that it provides a potential link from Heriot-Watt University campus to the residential areas of Currie and Juniper Green . |
| 5 | One of the reasons it thinks that COSE is interested in its participation is that it has some key technology that in typical DEC fashion , it has failed to trumpet . |
| 6 | Although he suggests he is not wholly against the permissive society , all that he can find to say in its favour is that it points to the continual necessity to make traditional values relevant to contemporary society , to the fact that the importance of the family , ‘ the very principles of order itself … are not … accepted by all ’ . |
| 7 | The only point in its favour is that it contains nothing that is toxic . |
| 8 | Indeed , its strength is that it casts a caustic eye over the club scene , dealing with familiar situations with enough self-deprecation and sarcasm to stem any pretension . |
| 9 | But for our present purposes , its interest is that it locates stylistic significance in the ideational function of language ; that is , in the cognitive meaning or sense which for the dualist is the invariant factor of content rather than the variable factor of style . |