Example sentences of "[is] [conj] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The disadvantage of this is that it creates all the lingering resentment and hostility of ‘ win/lose ’ situation . |
| 3 | One of the evolutionary advantages of segmentation ( the division of the body into a series of similar parts ) is that it becomes possible to maintain an old function and acquire a new one simultaneously , by modifying the organs of one segment while leaving those of another unchanged . |
| 4 | The advantage of non-recourse lending from the point of view of a developer of promoter is that it becomes possible to structure the deal so that the entire transaction does not appear in the annual report and accounts . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | However , a consequence of so extending the scope of the imperative is that it becomes relevant only to the logic of value judgments , and has no direct bearing on how far a creature adapted to heed only what pleases it can push towards awareness against the grain of organic functioning . |
| 7 | The worrying aspect is that it gets worse each year . ’ |
| 8 | The case for loans has been most strongly argued by a group at the London School of Economics whose main criticism of an entirely grant-based approach is that it favours better-off families , and as it is currently operated it leaves many students in poverty . |
| 9 | The information available to me , provided by Liverpool city council , is that it accepted 397 households as homeless in the second quarter of this year . |
| 10 | One of the chief attractions of the Reader 's Digest DOUBLE PAYOUT PLAN , however , is that it does more than offer you family financial security in the event of your death . |
| 11 | The problem with this definition is that it neglects other chemically and biochemically responsive sensors which lack a biolayer but which share not only similar functional principles , but offer equivalent analytical advantages . |
| 12 | The hon. Gentleman is asking a question which he knows will receive no answer , because the nature of a deterrent is that it remains uncertain — the nation that has it might be prepared to use it . |
| 13 | The chief virtue of a private property system is that it achieves this dispersal and is therefore structurally antagonistic to coercion . |
| 14 | A final objection to a Christian view of the Bible is that it bypasses human thought , and makes men into machines . |
| 15 | One of the problems arising from reliance on parental contributions is that it produces wide disparities between the resources available to schools with different catchment areas . |
| 16 | He regards PR as a crucial issue and when told that one of its main criticisms is that it produces indecisive government , he came out with that wonderfully ironic comment — ‘ like the weak old government in Switzerland and in Germany and nearly the whole of Europe ’ . |
| 17 | The essential feature of jobbing production is that it produces single articles or ‘ one-off ’ items . |
| 18 | The problem with such a characterisation of pluralism is that it bears little resemblance to what pluralists actually say pluralism means , and consequently it is hardly surprising that even the most cursory of empirical investigations can show such a naive version of pluralism is untenable as a description of the distribution of power in Western liberal democracies . |
| 19 | is that it helps all the 910 missionary dioceses of the world through a central fund , to which all countries , including the missionary countries themselves , contribute . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Its relevance here is that it defines general insurance business ( and divides it into seventeen classes ) and long-term insurance business ( divided into seven classes ) . |
| 22 | An almost universal feature of determination is that it involves subtle chemical changes , almost certainly turning on or off genes , and the overt result may not be seen for many hours . |
| 23 | The crucial feature of the market as a coordination device is that it involves voluntary exchange of goods and services between two parties at a known price . |
| 24 | The remarkable thing about Daryl Runswick 's operatic project , following a tradition set by Britten himself and acknowledged as such by the generous support of the Aldeburgh Foundation , is that it involves whole classes from primary and middle schools around Suffolk , not just the few so prematurely labelled ‘ musical ’ . |
| 25 | The value of a condensing boiler is that it retrieves most of the expensively generated heat from flue gases and puts this heat back into the system . |
| 26 | I should point out that in one of the features of adhesions is that it takes two to tango , so to speak ! |
| 27 | Therefore we want to think ahead to future access to the information in the Journals , and the price is that it takes more time now . |
| 28 | The answer is that it lacks human agency or human intention . |
| 29 | One more positive criticism of the Economic theory of regulation is that it lacks sufficient structure to make it testable . |
| 30 | You see , the very exciting thing about multimedia from Ready Systems ' point of view is that it requires real-time software . |