Example sentences of "[is] [conj] it [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The value of the sociological perspective is that it enables students to see why society believes in the discipline in question . |
| 2 | One of the advantages of this approach , or so it is claimed , is that it enables governments to pursue policies based upon consent and voluntary cooperation and thereby to avoid both the ‘ law of the jungle ’ ( monetarism ) and the ‘ jungle of the law ’ ( statutory incomes policies ) . |
| 3 | The advantage of using a sound-based code with working memory is that it produces memories which are more durable than those based upon a purely visual code , and this gives us more time to calculate the meaning of the sentence . |
| 4 | The most likely explanation of anting is that it helps birds like the European jay to keep their feathers in good condition . |
| 5 | The rationalization is that it helps patients . |
| 6 | We sometimes claim that the merit of an English sixth-form education is that it accustoms pupils to think for themselves . |
| 7 | The one thing that can be said in favour is that it sends vegans and animal rights activists incandescent with rage . |
| 8 | Although one character does get to chunter on for half a page about how the real point of fund-raising is its feelgood side effects ( get-away ! ) , there is really no satirical content here at all : the real point of the book is that it features loads and loads of cartoon rumpy-pumpy : randy housewives and naughty underwear , haystacks and giant inflatable condoms , improbable sexual positions and unlikely transvestites . |
| 9 | The problem with the former , i.e. the standard on depreciation , is that it requires organizations to provide for depreciation of fixed assets having a finite useful life . |
| 10 | the major benefit of the system is that it allows partners and managers to tap into the system directly . |
| 11 | ‘ The benefit of massage is that it allows patients to talk to someone on a one to one basis . |
| 12 | ‘ The benefit of massage is that it allows patients to talk to someone on a one to one basis . |
| 13 | The point of the idiom of companionship is that it allows individuals to form and to dissolve ties with one another with greater ease and frequency than would the idiom of shared substance . |
| 14 | And although this research is industry-specific , the hope is that it offers insights and design lessons applicable in many areas . |
| 15 | Another argument for Quattro Pro is that it offers products in both the DOS and Windows worlds . |
| 16 | The reason is that it has muscles which work to resist gravity and other physical forces bearing upon the whole body . |
| 17 | One of the consequences of the RUC 's dual role is that it has features typical of most police forces and qualities special to it . |
| 18 | The rationale is that it gives artists a share in the value of their work as and when it is resold by dealers and galleries . |
| 19 | The big advantage of film or video in teacher training is that it gives trainees access to a range of classrooms they could not otherwise enter . |
| 20 | The attraction of the book is that it gives clinicians an easily readable albeit superficial overview that will serve as a useful introduction : and even specialists in the field are likely to find useful information in one or more of the chapters . |
| 21 | The value of a religious noviciate which asks novices to try out a variety of these functions in turn is that it exposes novices to the value of each . |
| 22 | ‘ The problem with the Touche Ross report is that it makes assumptions that lead it to overestimate the savings associated with smaller , more numerous councils . |
| 23 | ‘ The effect of the strike is that it makes customers walk away from us , ’ he said . |
| 24 | ‘ Practically the only good thing which can be said about the patronage system , ’ said the Archdeacon , ‘ is that it prevents dioceses selling off or pulling down at least some few of their beautiful buildings . ’ |
| 25 | The best that I can say for a personality explanation is that it prevents executives from thinking about changing their behaviour , because it understandably makes little sense for them to undergo some kind of therapy . |
| 26 | A further consequence of benefit to employers of this nuclear-family form , is that it places women in a weak position when competing on the labour market . |
| 27 | The importance of recognition as a goal is that it provides managers with unlimited opportunity . |
| 28 | The value of the writing is that it provides points of reference for the voyager within . |
| 29 | In fact one of the problems of a stratificational analysis is that it classifies women in a somewhat arbitrary manner , sometimes assigning to them the class of their husbands or fathers and sometimes determining their class by their own occupations . |
| 30 | Thus a full description of what is wrong with pornography is that it reinforces desires on the part of men to treat women as objects , as means , and thus , indirectly , it reinforces male power . |