Example sentences of "[noun] [is] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The attractiveness of the cultural explanation of religion is that it appears to account for the diversity in religious practices and beliefs without the necessity to get involved in controversy .
2 The real importance of the Christian religion is that it claims to be true irrespective of how I regard it .
3 The relevance of Christian thinking is that it puts certain limits on the market place , not on the basis that they are politically necessary to secure greater freedom in the market economy , but that they are right and desirable in themselves .
4 One problem with this experiment is that it presented subjects with a very artificial task and , not surprisingly , various criticisms have been made by authors such as Hupet and Le Boudec ( 1977 ) and Schultz and Kamil ( 1979 ) .
5 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 .
6 If the campaign has been logical to the strategists , the public perception is that it has been awful .
7 The rationale for trying to obtain verbatim records of children 's speech in naturalistic settings is that it provides the best indication of what language a child actually uses in ordinary , everyday settings .
8 However , one of this industry 's main characteristics is that it attracts the maverick .
9 The problem with this reasoning is that it comes very close to construing a clause to the extent that the plaintiffs seek to enforce it rather than as it stands .
10 But the radical difference between this and previous dieting methods is that it makes the food you consume more filling and also renders some of the calories it supplies non-fattening , as you will begin to learn in the next chapter .
11 It is often said that one of the problems with antiracism is that it knows what it is against , but not what it is for .
12 The first question I want to ask of contemporary antiracism is whether it does not collude in accepting that the problems of ‘ race ’ and racism are somehow peripheral to the substance of political life .
13 The problem with weight loss is that it takes a long time to get what you want .
14 Its positive side is that it implies man 's ability to recognise his aptitude for self-pollution , and thus trigger the dynamic power which first clears the mess through the sacrament of penance ( repentance , confession , satisfaction ) and then works through self-discipline to keep the channels running clear in thought , word and deed .
15 Because the ministry has been brought into being by God , the result is that it bears fruit , whether it is among the gentiles in Pisidian Antioch or the whole group of hearers in Lystra .
16 The most interesting result is that it gives quicker search times for a long word list over the 26-way methods .
17 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 .
18 The gravest doubt which has assailed historians about Charlemagne 's moral and educational programme is whether it had much effect .
19 ‘ The irony is that it 's all been dead for us lately .
20 Everybody has read about out of body experiences and I do n't know if that is what it was , but I was not frightened by the person who was looking at me and the image that I had and that I still have in my mind is that it looked like me
21 Everybody has read about out of body experiences and I do n't know if that is what it was , but I was not frightened by the person who was looking at me and the image that I had and that I still have in my mind is that it looked like me .
22 Mildew is not so very difficult to stop in the early stages , and there are several fungicides that will give it a severe check — all the chemical manufacturers have their own products and trade names which , like everything else , are constantly being improved and changed — but by far the most important point to bear in mind is that it has to be hit early and repeatedly .
23 One story told against the KGB is that it tried to steal the design secrets of the Anglo-French supersonic aircraft Concorde .
24 The only real problem with QBasic is that it does n't come with any sort of printed documentation — this is where we can help .
25 One of the work 's main strengths is that it covers all social positions .
26 But the only reason that it 's called The Dark Ark is because it travels in the shadow of Noah 's Ark .
27 But the only reason that it 's called The Dark Ark is because it travels in the shadow of Noah 's Ark .
28 My only reservation with his classification of roles is that it reflects a Western preoccupation with task behaviours .
29 The loss should not fall on the totally innocent taxpayer whose only fault is that it paid what the legislature improperly said was due .
30 This can create something of a dilemma for the anthropologist and for the discipline itself , for one of the tenets of social research is that it requires detachment .
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