Example sentences of "[is] [conj] it [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Alcohol did me the greatest favour , which is that it brought me down to earth . |
| 2 | One key reason why leasing remains popular with companies is that it enables them to expand through investment without damaging cash flow . |
| 3 | Probably the most important aspect of this add-in is that it enables you to embed live graphs in your worksheet . |
| 4 | One of the more remarkable , and useful , aspects of language is that it enables us to pose questions . |
| 5 | The advantage of this is that it enables us to start focusing on content . |
| 6 | The most obvious is that it helps you prepare your position so that it is based on facts rather than speculation or wishful thinking . |
| 7 | The third thing about that is that it represents us saying continuum . |
| 8 | One drawback of the Masters for married men , who want to see the last putt in , is that it requires them to creep to bed as if they were returning from a night club . |
| 9 | The appeal of this closely-worked new study is that it presents him as a comprehensive human being . |
| 10 | In a moment I will produce the recipe — and please , will readers do their best to suspend disbelief until they have tried it ? — but one of the main points about this recipe is that it taught me ( for after all , one does not buy lobsters all that often ) that anisette is , improbably but incontrovertibly , a quite magical ingredient in fish dishes and sauces . |
| 11 | The advantage of the design is that it allows us to exclude other explanations . |
| 12 | The real use of this model linking personality development to subject choice is that it allows us to make predictions about how pupils might react to changes in school science curriculum and school organization . |
| 13 | One advantage of the self-concept is that it allows us to examine people as they are , as ‘ wholes ’ , not as a series of personality dimensions . |
| 14 | Perhaps the greatest value binocular vision has for us is that it allows us to judge distance . |
| 15 | If we look at this client server model today one of the most significant advantages it delivers is that it allows us to run different kinds of applications on different computers . |
| 16 | The value of counselling is that it allows you to state your points of view to each other , before a trained and unbiased third party who can help you to resolve the issues that bother you . |
| 17 | Another extremely useful feature of the Professional package is that it allows you to rotate a garment piece through any angle . |
| 18 | The second is that it allows you to make a fast flank attack on the end of the enemy 's line with the possibility of rolling along it and taking lots of his troops in the flanks . |
| 19 | One of the most useful benefits of this is that it allows you to create long filenames . |
| 20 | My main complaint about this book , however , is that it encourages us to become not so much rock climbers as consumers . |
| 21 | The advantage of this self-imposed discipline is that it forces you deliberately to do all that is involved in learning from experience and at the same time markedly increases the lessons learned from your various activities . |
| 22 | This intake of information from several sources at once is a complex process , and the value to learners of silent viewing is that it lets them concentrate on one element at a time . |
| 23 | It is as if the USA and the USSR were caught in the logic of the Prisoner 's Dilemma or the Chicken Game and the only sense in which this is not mere fiction is that it lets us predict successfully what will happen next . |
| 24 | Properly speaking , the force ( and also the weakness ) of a personal testimony is that it tells us as much about the person who believes as about the content of what he believes . |
| 25 | But what makes this machine really special is that it offers you the chance to create an unlimited range of embroidery designs . |
| 26 | The play 's strength is that it draws on Eliot 's earlier work and makes that earlier work transferable to the West End , a triumph in itself ; its weakness , like that of most of the plays , is that it offers us little we can not find more concisely and intensely expressed in the poetry . |
| 27 | What she most relishes about no longer having to worry about where the money to pay the rates is coming from is that it gives her the freedom to be creative . |
| 28 | The huge advantage of fame is that it gives me , for no proper reason , access to people that I would never otherwise have . |
| 29 | The only trouble is that it gives me an American accent . |
| 30 | Your Lordship er will see from paragraph three eleven that what the letter er says is as we discussed on the telephone , the advantage of the landlord 's objection is that it gives you time to put your finances in order , if the licence was forthcoming now you would be obliged to complete the transaction which at this stage you are unable to do . |