Example sentences of "[is] [conj] it [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of the considerable achievement of Michael Mann 's imaginative but faithful treatment is that it manages to make acceptable for the 1990s some of the outmoded attitudes of its characters , and yet refuses to go for that eco-trendiness that will make Dances With Wolves look dated by the turn of the century . |
| 2 | My understanding of the Bill is that it seeks to improve the inspection performance of the worst authorities in the country by insisting on a minimum number of regular inspections of schools . |
| 3 | So the surprising feature of Ibstock Johnsen is that it continues to make any money at all . |
| 4 | One principal advantage of an integrated approach is that it helps to spread employment throughout the year rather than to be concentrated in peak periods . |
| 5 | Another important feature is that it helps to overcome distractability so that people can focus attentively in prayer or meditation . |
| 6 | The significance of this ability is that it helps to identify the surfaces of things . |
| 7 | If the glass has any virtue at all , he wrote , it is that it refuses to pretend . |
| 8 | The best that can be said for the education available for the children of the eighteenth-century poor is that it managed to maintain the levels of the later seventeenth century . |
| 9 | The problem with New Right Conservatism is that it has to claim to be reducing the influence of the State in the field of welfare , health , income support and education , but has to maintain the strong State in the arena of law and order . |
| 10 | The whole point of tea , is that it has to brew , is n't it . |
| 11 | In Germany , the Bundespost Telekom 's argument is that it has to complete the reconstruction of eastern Germany 's telecommunications infrastructure before it can allow competition , Vallance said . |
| 12 | Yes , I think I agree with everything that Elizabeth said , and I think this is why erm one of the things I very much feel is that it has to start with the schools , as well as at home , of course , when children are young . |
| 13 | The problem for the potential incumbent is that it has to get enough customers signed up to enable the prices quoted to be profitable . |
| 14 | One story told against the KGB is that it tried to steal the design secrets of the Anglo-French supersonic aircraft Concorde . |
| 15 | One of the major arguments against the approach is that it attempts to deal with curriculum problems involving value issues in a procedural way , i.e. by applying a suitable formula or technique . |
| 16 | The attractiveness of the cultural explanation of religion is that it appears to account for the diversity in religious practices and beliefs without the necessity to get involved in controversy . |
| 17 | One qualification that should be made to the general formula that Lord Goddard laid down in Hinchcliffe v. Sheldon is that it appears to make a person guilty of obstructing by omission , and the view may be expressed that this is not the law . |
| 18 | This conception of services has its attractions , not least of which is that it appears to distinguish the output of services from that of manufacturing . |
| 19 | The main difficulty with the HCF approach , however interpreted , is that it tends to jettison most of what is distinctive of religion . |
| 20 | One problem with dependency reversal is that it tends to take development strategies for granted while it assesses the benefits , or costs , of particular activities . |
| 21 | The flaw of monism is that it tends to view a text as an undifferentiated whole , so that examination of linguistic choices can not be made except on some ad hoc principle . |
| 22 | The advantage of a Statutory Demand over the filing of a High Court writ or County Court summons is that it tends to bring on matters at a faster and more urgent rate . |
| 23 | The problem with this ‘ high ’ structuralism is that it tends to offer only an extremely objectivist account of social action , in which the human actor is merely a vehicle for the autonomous working of certain ordering principles . |
| 24 | As I said before , the risk of collective action of this sort , which is regretted by many teachers ( as reflected in the rise and fall of the memberships of the different unions over the last few years ) , is that it tends to reduce to the lowest common denominators of more pay on the one hand and a narrow-minded , knee-jerk resistance to change on the other . |
| 25 | One problem which remains , even in Dearlove 's formulation , however , is that it tends to present options in rather too clear-cut a fashion . |
| 26 | A further criticism which has been levelled at the Keynesian model is that it tends to understate the influence of money on the real variables in the economy . |
| 27 | … is that it tends to make us perceive and evaluate formula literature simply as an inferior or perverted form of something better , instead of seeing the ‘ escapist ’ characteristics as aspects of an artistic type with its own purposes and justification . |
| 28 | This was first proposed in 1974 but when the Environmental Protection Bill becomes law , the UK will be the first European country to put in place a national system of integrated control The importance of IPC is that it aims to treat the environment as it is : an inter-related system where pollutants can be exchanged between air , water and land . |
| 29 | The crux of a personality article is that it aims to satisfy a reader 's curiosity . |
| 30 | Mr Duncan Nichol , the NHS chief executive , told the Guardian yesterday that the Government 's negotiating position is that it wants to split the service so crews with medical skills can earn extra money and non-emergency services can be contracted out . |