Example sentences of "[is] [conj] it [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The force of law is that it becomes part of common sense , and makes ‘ common sense ’ prescriptions about public order , theft and hard work . |
| 2 | The uniqueness of the Christian faith is that it orients man to hope in God , to respond to his love and to rest in God alone as the only source of ultimate happiness . |
| 3 | The official line is that it remains Government policy never to comment on allegations of this nature . |
| 4 | An equally important reason for God 's giving music to us is that it forms part of our response to him . |
| 5 | The first major problem with Fforde 's work is that it equates collectivism with socialism , which is as historically wrong as it is jejune . |
| 6 | Professor Lynch is uncertain how the fungal growth enhancer works ; a likely possibility is that it helps combat natural toxins that develop in seed and potting composts . |
| 7 | The point about sacrifice is that it represents slog , sweat and tears . |
| 8 | One of the principles of hypnopaedia is that it transforms sleep into hypnosis . |
| 9 | What all the programmes indicate is that it takes commitment and enthusiasm on the part of Rover , the schools and their pupils , if such initiatives are to produce the engineers of the future . |
| 10 | The one useful generalisation about war in impoverished Africa is that it takes place where there are not many expensive weapons for soldiers to kill each other with , but where the conditions of organised life are so fragile that its disruption causes lots of civilians to die of famine and disease . |
| 11 | One quality of backbench life which is distracting for those with a professional or commercial training is that it lacks coherence , and there is an aimlessness which is debilitating . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A characteristic feature of the gastric parietal cell apical membrane is that it possesses omeprazole sensitive H + , K + -ATPase . |
| 14 | But the chief advantage of the linguistic analogy in any narrative theory is that it allows literature in general and narrative in particular to be read as a self-contained system independent of any realist function . |
| 15 | One advantage of this approach is that it allows time to test the technologies that build the confidence on which sensible arms control rests . |
| 16 | One is that it displaces wage costs out of the more expensive core to the somewhat cheaper periphery ; another is that it leads to stable long-term relations with suppliers which open up multi-directional flows of information between the partners in the subcontracting network . |
| 17 | A more serious objection to Anderson 's account is that it assumes consistentalignment between left and right in politics , and ‘ progressive ’ and ‘ traditional ’ in intellectual life . |
| 18 | A third argument for state control is that it facilitates income redistributional measures . |
| 19 | A good feature of the Solution is that it offers flexibility in the depth of the decompression range , so that for an indicated ceiling of three metres it will accept that you are in the correct range if you are between nine and three metres depth . |
| 20 | Moderator the convenor in his introduction and in the deliverance says that the church 's position is that it offers baptism to parents who are not er who , who is seeking to explain the church 's position to parents who are not communicant members or intending members of the church . |
| 21 | And you place it carefully on the printing plate so there 's lots of spare paper round it because the essence of a good etching is that it has breathing space all the way round . |
| 22 | The central characteristic of social action is that it has meaning for the people who are involved in it . |
| 23 | The major advantage of considering children 's language as a complex set of learned behaviours is that it gives rise to direct implications for language intervention . |
| 24 | The major attraction of a fully-fledged GIS is that it gives access to large volumes of cartographic and attribute data which can be manipulated according to the needs of the user and the flexibility of the system software . |
| 25 | The reason for being aware of sexism in language is that it biases experience constantly towards the male sex and gives little or no prominence to the role of women in society . |
| 26 | The only thing that can be said for astrology is that it makes money for those who write and publish horoscopes , despite being wrong on most occasions . |
| 27 | But the point is that it makes sense for him to reject such a statement as false on a given occasion , only if he is prepared to admit that in different circumstances the same statement could be true . |
| 28 | The only element specifically defined is that it includes unconsciousness ; otherwise , its definition remains vague . |
| 29 | Head of Department : ‘ The only real difference is that it includes paint . |
| 30 | The reason why this amendment in my view is one that can take us forward is that it places responsibility now for clearing up the mess clearly where it belongs and that 's with the Labour group . |