Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The other advantages of a freezer are that it enables you to store food that can be brought out in an emergency when you have unexpected guests , or to store certain foods in bulk , such as bread , to save you from frequent trips to the shops . |
| 2 | In her foreword , Ruth Richardson , the Minister of Finance ( and not the most popular Kiwi politician ) , expresses it thus : ‘ The special advantages of accrual accounting are that it distinguishes between capital and current spending , and that it takes better account of the cost of current policies for future generations … |
| 3 | Ziegler ( 1978 ) , in his discussion of the Mass Observation records on the coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953 , records that the two most commonly cited reasons for supporting the coronation were that it created wealth and that it united the nation . |
| 4 | The particular benefits of this approach for this study were that it provided quantitative data on important treatment/intervention issues in a population where group-comparison studies alone would be inappropriate , because of the individual nature of each person 's challenging behaviour and the small number of potential subjects . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The real importance of the Christian religion is that it claims to be true irrespective of how I regard it . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | If the campaign has been logical to the strategists , the public perception is that it has been awful . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The problem with weight loss is that it takes a long time to get what you want . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The most interesting result is that it gives quicker search times for a long word list over the 26-way methods . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The gravest doubt which has assailed historians about Charlemagne 's moral and educational programme is whether it had much effect . |
| 20 | ‘ The irony is that it 's all been dead for us lately . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 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 | But the only reason that it 's called The Dark Ark is because it travels in the shadow of Noah 's Ark . |
| 26 | But the only reason that it 's called The Dark Ark is because it travels in the shadow of Noah 's Ark . |
| 27 | The loss should not fall on the totally innocent taxpayer whose only fault is that it paid what the legislature improperly said was due . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | A common theme emerging from much of the second tradition of cross-national research is that it becomes possible to examine the complex ways in which national industrial relations variations are bound up with wider processes of political and economic development , particularly the phasing of industrial development ( as in Dore 's work ) , the nature of the state and underlying class relations . |
| 30 | The most dramatic thing about the recent dietary fibre research is that it has , to a degree , altered the basis on which experts have been calculating potential weight loss over the past half century or so … the period during which overweight people have been begging diet doctors and dieticians to help them shed that surplus fat . |