Example sentences of "is that it has " in BNC.

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1 The only significant difference that I have observed in the Best Bitter from Newcastle is that it has a much higher level of secondary fermentation in the cellar .
2 She is , admittedly , pregnant at the time , but the problem with this familiar literary symbol is that it has rather more inside it than the play does .
3 Virgin 's boast is that it has grown organically and can continue to do so .
4 But Sir David said yesterday : ‘ We 've always had doubts about this policy , and the thing that now confirms our doubts is that it has n't worked . ’
5 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 .
6 The point is that it has taken players like Wallace and Hardenberger to contradict the cliches about the limitations of the instrument and to prove how flexible it really is .
7 One of the chief glories of this house is that it has been little altered since it was built around the middle of the sixteenth century .
8 The snag is that it has no main bank behind it .
9 One consequence of the breadth of this definition is that it has been held to cover psychological harm — where D causes V to become hysterical or to suffer substantial fear or fright , for example .
10 Then Arthur Miller added : ‘ The thing to remember is that it has not gone away for ever . ’
11 If the campaign has been logical to the strategists , the public perception is that it has been awful .
12 I think one of the justifiable criticisms of Radio 3 — though not of my predecessor — is that it has come across as being too much about itself .
13 The problem with trying to reduce particulates is that it has a trade-off in higher nitrogen oxides ( NOx ) produced , which are frowned upon in environmental legislation in the U.S. and EC .
14 What is interesting , however , is that it has taken over ten years to bring about the changes Leonard anticipated .
15 The main problem in windsurfing is that it has developed so rapidly in the last ten years that boards only a few years old are very out of date and lack the features mentioned earlier .
16 The problem is that it has the effect of actually reinforcing alienation , leaving room for that disjunction from the natural world which allows certain scientists to behave with inconceivable cruelty in their laboratories , which allows workers in slaughter houses to treat animals as if they simply had no rights or feelings at all , which allows people to justify all manner of exploitation , as if there were no moral obligations or injunctions upon us whatsoever .
17 My main criticism of intensive agricultural production , and of animal farming in particular , is that it has been locked for too long into a model-T-Ford-type philosophy , geared to produce a standard commodity as cheaply as possible .
18 The great appeal of methylation as a means of shutting genes off is that it has a known mechanism for perpetuating itself during cell division and thus ensuring its own inheritance .
19 One disadvantage of the tokamak is that it has a pulsed discharge ( although there have been various suggestions as to how we might design a continuous tokamak ) while the stellarator and EBT are DC ( continuous ) toroidal configurations .
20 The point about folklore is that it has to be interpreted .
21 ‘ But I think the most likely is that it has something to do with a girl . ’
22 The main problem for a private pilot is that it has the widest airspeed envelope available this side of the Harrier .
23 What is already clear is that it has been a success in developing our own AI-skilled personnel .
24 Mair said calmly : The answer is that it has n't ; the publicity was premature .
25 Its defining feature is that it has none except , as time goes on , a growing sense of unreality .
26 The most dramatic thing about the recent dietary fibre research is that it has , to a degree , altered the basis on which experts have been calculating potential weight loss over the past half century or so … the period during which overweight people have been begging diet doctors and dieticians to help them shed that surplus fat .
27 Another criticism he makes is that it has an uneasy relationship with such values as justice which some people should consider to be important in human life .
28 The answer , of course , is that it has never happened , and if it ever did there would be immediate and radical constitutional change to ensure it never happened again .
29 This solution induces vertigo if one thinks in terms of a self-contained realm of observation and inference ; does it mean that the most you can say of Einstein 's physics is that it has not yet been refuted , which can be said equally of ‘ Unicorns exist ’ ?
30 ‘ What has made it particularly difficult , for manufacturers of all sizes , but most of all for smaller ones , is that it has gone on for a long time .
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