Example sentences of "[is] [conj] it [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gandhi 's implicit suggestion here is that it had yet to support non-violence for , as he says , bishops still felt able to support slaughter in the name of Christianity . |
| 2 | And these are things like thalidomide , that of course everybody knows about , and of course , tragic and terrible as it was , the fact is that it affected just four hundred and fifty children . |
| 3 | The advantage the pure watercolour has over all other media is that it depends greatly on the light passing through the colour being reflected back from the white paper . |
| 4 | The mark of a good organisation is that it responds positively when things get tough . |
| 5 | One drawback is that it responds only to quick changes in humidity , but the inventors point out this should not be a problem with a fuel gauge . |
| 6 | The advantage of this structure is that it responds swiftly to meet most developments whether from competition , government or consumer bodies . |
| 7 | One of the strengths of this approach is that it becomes much more immediately apparent why certain issues are felt to be important . |
| 8 | One consequence of augmenting the focus registers as in SPAR is that it becomes more common for candidates to be separated only by a weak focusing preference . |
| 9 | The great advantage of this approach is that it gets away from picking out odd texts from the bible to ‘ prove ’ one thing or another and asks after the underlying message . |
| 10 | The interest of this triple acclamation is that it sounds emphatically and oddly hellenistic ( cp . |
| 11 | The main criticism about information provided to employees is that it arrives too late . |
| 12 | The advantage of the pen system in Eo 's machine is that it does away with the keyboard , so enabling applications to be written for all language forms — non-Roman script like Japanese or Arabic for instance . |
| 13 | The appeal of Brand A is that it does all the work for the slimmer . |
| 14 | But the trouble with the picture is that it does absolutely nothing with its various prognostications except play the fool with them . |
| 15 | A major problem for LTOM is that it derives only 30 per cent of its turnover from retail investors unlike the average of 70 per cent achieved at other pure options exchanges such as the CBOE and the EOE . |
| 16 | When we five and a half years of life of the coral from Isabella Island in the Galapagos the remarkable thing about this coral record is that it represents nearly three hundred and eighty years of continuous coral growth . |
| 17 | But for some villagers who the remember the Lambourn as it used to be , all that matters is that it flows once again . |
| 18 | Another strange quality of warning coloration is that it varies remarkably little from one species to the next . |
| 19 | What happens is that it falls apart , its rib-cage falling away and the limbs dropping from their sockets . |
| 20 | The reason for MI5 's inefficiency is that it wastes far too much time and resources chasing after the wrong sort of people who it believes to be subversive , while real enemies of the state are able to go on spying undetected for decades . |
| 21 | An advantage of this use of directories is that it caters naturally for cases where a student 's work involves several different files . |
| 22 | The major difficulty , however , with this view is that it stems again from a misreading of realism . |
| 23 | One feature of tendon repair of which there is no doubt , is that it takes longer than you think for tendons to repair well . |
| 24 | The first thing someone familiar with Christine Brooke-Rose 's fiction notices about the novel is that it reads almost like conventional science fiction . |
| 25 | The attractiveness of this model is that it requires only a modest increase of temperature of around 100°C at the base of the lithosphere . |
| 26 | The main advantage of the new method is that it requires only water . |
| 27 | ONE problem with a high-tech war is that it requires so much technology . |
| 28 | The catch is that it operates only at temperatures just above absolute zero . |
| 29 | Indeed , the only good thing about their confrontation against Sukova and Novotna is that it took just 50 minutes to complete , with the established Czech combination sweeping to a 6-2 , 6-2 victory and a place in the semi-finals against the United States . |
| 30 | My claim is that it functions regularly whenever an adult or older child is in contact with a younger child . |