Example sentences of "[noun] [be] that it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The particular benefits of this approach for this study were that it provided quantitative data on important treatment/intervention issues in a population where group-comparison studies alone would be inappropriate , because of the individual nature of each person 's challenging behaviour and the small number of potential subjects .
2 The relevance of Christian thinking is that it puts certain limits on the market place , not on the basis that they are politically necessary to secure greater freedom in the market economy , but that they are right and desirable in themselves .
3 The most interesting result is that it gives quicker search times for a long word list over the 26-way methods .
4 The most telling comment on the wealth of the metropolis is that it had more men worth upwards of £100 than most other towns had taxpayers of all grades ; indeed , the number of four-figure assessments equalled the total taxpayers of some tiny market towns .
5 One of the work 's main strengths is that it covers all social positions .
6 A common theme emerging from much of the second tradition of cross-national research is that it becomes possible to examine the complex ways in which national industrial relations variations are bound up with wider processes of political and economic development , particularly the phasing of industrial development ( as in Dore 's work ) , the nature of the state and underlying class relations .
7 However , a consequence of so extending the scope of the imperative is that it becomes relevant only to the logic of value judgments , and has no direct bearing on how far a creature adapted to heed only what pleases it can push towards awareness against the grain of organic functioning .
8 As explains : ‘ The primary reason for promoting a positive quality attitude is that it enhances Scotland overall and the secondary effect is that it enhances each company as well .
9 Much of the attraction of NVOCC carriage is that it offers discounted rates , especially for less than a full container load of cargo .
10 The general principle underlying the definition of the term is that it excludes physical property which a potential purchaser can inspect .
11 The conclusions of one other major research was that it had substantial social implication of personal family in community lives so these papers were discussed in great detail .
12 The real clincher was that it made better tea and beer than the pump muck .
13 The importance of this work is that it puts economic factors firmly back on the agenda as explanations of crime .
14 A possible response to the dismissal of contract as a ground of corporate legitimacy is that it pays insufficient attention to the moral significance of contract .
15 The argument of all crackdown law is that it applies special , draconian measures to tackle some heinous crime .
16 Any initial work in multicultural mathematics may be seen to be tokenistic , especially if the only obvious reason for its inclusion is that it represents other cultures .
17 An almost universal feature of determination is that it involves subtle chemical changes , almost certainly turning on or off genes , and the overt result may not be seen for many hours .
18 The problem with such a characterisation of pluralism is that it bears little resemblance to what pluralists actually say pluralism means , and consequently it is hardly surprising that even the most cursory of empirical investigations can show such a naive version of pluralism is untenable as a description of the distribution of power in Western liberal democracies .
19 He regards PR as a crucial issue and when told that one of its main criticisms is that it produces indecisive government , he came out with that wonderfully ironic comment — ‘ like the weak old government in Switzerland and in Germany and nearly the whole of Europe ’ .
20 Advanced foundations — Max Factor 's High Definition Foundation , £5.49 , contains moisturisers and sunscreens but the difference is that it contains smaller than ever coloured pigments .
21 One of the problems arising from reliance on parental contributions is that it produces wide disparities between the resources available to schools with different catchment areas .
22 The crucial feature of the market as a coordination device is that it involves voluntary exchange of goods and services between two parties at a known price .
23 And the bleak conclusion is that it makes little difference whether the intruding whites are well- or ill-intentioned : the result , for the Indians , is disease and destruction .
24 A final objection to a Christian view of the Bible is that it bypasses human thought , and makes men into machines .
25 That , that 's , that And your other point was that it had some quite specific information about what the problem was .
26 What was impressive about the group was that it included six US Nobel laureates in economics and a broad bi-partisan collection of the best of American economic thought .
27 The whole raison d'etre of that early Christian community was that it believed certain things of Christ — at the very least , that it was he whom God had raised from the dead .
28 Its greatest drawback is that it requires human beings to adapt themselves to the production process , and in most Western countries , there has been a reaction against this requirement .
29 Therefore we want to think ahead to future access to the information in the Journals , and the price is that it takes more time now .
30 Its two main features are that it lifts cooperative R&D ventures from the suspicion that they are illegal per se and puts them under the rule of reason , and it provides a registration system which protects firms from treble damages in the event that they are subsequently deemed to have violated the antitrust statutes .
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