Example sentences of "method is [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the radical difference between this and previous dieting methods is that it makes the food you consume more filling and also renders some of the calories it supplies non-fattening , as you will begin to learn in the next chapter . |
| 2 | The major advantage of this method is that it does not depend on the calculation of MNI , which at best is an unreliable estimate of the true numbers of individuals in a sample . |
| 3 | A further advantage of this method is that it allows the phonetic location of an incipient change to be identified rather precisely , and particular variants to be associated with particular groups of speakers : ‘ The main difference between the boys and the girls in the use of ( r ) is that the girls are almost always rhotic and most frequently use [ ? ] , while the boys are less frequently rhotic and tend to use [ ? ] more frequently than the girls ’ ( Romaine 1978a : 150 ) . |
| 4 | The main advantage of the new method is that it requires only water . |
| 5 | The major problem with the method is that it takes a great deal of time , attention and patience . |
| 6 | The weakness of this method is that it takes no account of what happens after the payback date is reached . |
| 7 | The weakness of this method is that it takes no account of what happens after the payback date is reached . |
| 8 | The benefit of the first method is that it cuts total lead time while leaving each individual stage length unchanged . |
| 9 | A further and very important advantage of this method is that it suggests a way of testing the validity of the rational expectations hypothesis itself . |
| 10 | The beauty of this method is that it makes you aware of the most harmonic choices that are avaible to you on any chosen scale degree . |
| 11 | A particular advantage of the telephone interview method is that it makes less demands on the time of managers than conventional ‘ face-to-face ’ interviews . |