Example sentences of "[is] that it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus we have Macdonald reporting on the " almost unanimous chorus of opinion that women 's work as compositors is so inferior to men 's that it does not pay in the long run " ( the chorus in question being from employers ) But the testimony of individual employers is far from unanimous or even consistent . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's that it does n't suit you . |
| 3 | Not you , it 's that it 's , it 's been on show . |
| 4 | Compania de Telefonos de Chile SA 's $182.6m proposed convertible bond issue won ratings of triple-B-minus rating from Standard & Poor 's Corp , and Baa-3 from Moody 's Investors Service Inc ; Standard & Poor 's said its rating reflects the company 's dominant position in local telephone services , growth prospects , and favourable regulatory framework ; Moody 's that it believes the company will continue to be the largest telecommunications company in Chile and will benefit from a supportive regulator . |
| 5 | But consider now a misgiving voiced by Linda Woodbridge and shared by many others : ‘ To me the one unsatisfying feature of the otherwise stimulating transvestite movement is that it had to be transvestite : Renaissance women so tar accepted the masculine rules of the game that they felt they had to look masculine to be ‘ free'' ’ ( Women and the English Renaissance , 145 ) . |
| 6 | Gandhi 's implicit suggestion here is that it had yet to support non-violence for , as he says , bishops still felt able to support slaughter in the name of Christianity . |
| 7 | While agreeing with this description of Hoccleve 's illness as of psychotic severity , our own evaluation is that it had a more depressive quality , many of the symptoms described by Hoccleve meeting the modern criteria for serious depression . |
| 8 | The most telling comment on the wealth of the metropolis is that it had more men worth upwards of £100 than most other towns had taxpayers of all grades ; indeed , the number of four-figure assessments equalled the total taxpayers of some tiny market towns . |
| 9 | All I can remember is that it had nothing to do with his feet . |
| 10 | The reason , I believe , is that it had in mind the defeat inflicted on the previous Conservative government over the Jonathan Aitken trial to do with Biafra . |
| 11 | There can be no doubt that this course has heightened the management skills of some of those working in the voluntary sector , but an extra benefit is that it had widened the links between I B M and you , and widened the understanding between both of us . |
| 12 | The first is that it maintain a monopoly of economic power . |
| 13 | And these are things like thalidomide , that of course everybody knows about , and of course , tragic and terrible as it was , the fact is that it affected just four hundred and fifty children . |
| 14 | But the main argument against the view that ‘ there are enough churches already ’ is that it depends what you mean by ‘ enough ’ . |
| 15 | The truth of the matter is that it depends on the person and not the music we listen to . |
| 16 | The danger in utilizing a theory of ‘ mind ’ to solve the problem of grounding the sociology of knowledge is that it depends on concepts that relate to individual and inaccessible behaviour — ‘ thought ’ , ‘ consciousness ’ , etc . |
| 17 | The second , and more important , is that it depends on the test conditions . |
| 18 | ‘ The thing about directing is that it depends on how you read a play . |
| 19 | There is , however , a problem with this theoretical account , which is that it depends , as mentioned , on the validity of the efficient market hypothesis , that is , it assumes that the underlying value of the company 's business is accurately reflected in the market price of its shares . |
| 20 | The answer to that question is that it depends how you plan to use the recording . |
| 21 | The advantage the pure watercolour has over all other media is that it depends greatly on the light passing through the colour being reflected back from the white paper . |
| 22 | The answer is that it depends whether or not you think that the history of the earth is divisible into units by means of natural events ( or revolutions ) detectable by man . |
| 23 | And the answer of course is that it depends how much you make God like yourself , and that 's a test that Milton does n't come altogether well out of . |
| 24 | As Cumings has pointed out , the importance of this paper is that it foreshadowed with considerable accuracy the sequence of events over the next three years , culminating in the formal establishment of the Republic of Korea in 1948 . |
| 25 | A second problem with compensation theory is that it ignores the period during which any changes are taking place — the transitional period . |
| 26 | One of the criticisms of reporting convertible debt as a liability is that it ignores the equity rights which are inherent in an issue of convertible debt . |
| 27 | The response of Dr P to communications , it will be remembered , is that it ignores the aesthetic , that it is so obsessed with ‘ ideological statements and political texts ’ that it can no longer make a distinction between good and bad . |
| 28 | The weakness of this approach in terms of the British civil service is that it ignores the force of ministerial responsibility . |
| 29 | But the main weakness of this type of explanation is that it ignores the relationship between the various parts of the state apparatus and their socio-economic environment under both pre- and post-independence regimes . |
| 30 | One of the reasons for the beneficial effect of dietary fibre is that it reduces the absorption of cholesterol — but there are other ways , too , in which it would appear to perform useful functions in keeping the heart healthy . |