Example sentences of "about [noun sg] [is] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole point about chaos is that it roars down on you when you least expect it , like a motorcycle messenger . |
| 2 | The remarkable thing about teacher-in-role is that it allows the teacher to change into a different gear , as it were , as subtly or as crudely as the occasion seems to require . |
| 3 | The reason the coding metaphor has such currency in contemporary talk about perception is that it seems to suggest a way in which very simple and apparently homogenous elements such as nerve impulses can generate the richness and variety of consciousness . |
| 4 | At the same time we should also recall that , as Levinas puts it ‘ the best thing about philosophy is that it fails ’ . |
| 5 | And of course , the thing about fun is that it exists solely in retrospect , in retroscendence ; when you 're having fun you are perforce abandoned , unthinking . |
| 6 | The point about sacrifice is that it represents slog , sweat and tears . |
| 7 | The first thing to notice about functionalism is that it does not fare any better than behaviourism in providing an account of what it is that V knows and BS does not , for BS could know all about V 's functional or covertly behavioural states ; so there is no lack of knowledge that his deficit could consist in . |
| 8 | The first thing to be said about mistake is that it does not usually provide a defence , for liability in conversion is strict : |
| 9 | The best thing about publishing is that it takes a book away from you and kills it . |
| 10 | The point about folklore is that it has to be interpreted . |