Example sentences of "[be] that [pers pn] [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | One might , for instance , use the maxim to infer that because Eeyore 's sigh is a non-linguistic action , it 's a better sign that he 's out of thistles than Rabbit 's words are that he has some honey . |
2 | A hacksaw may be the only possible tool to cut existing pipe which is installed against a wall ; however , the disadvantages of a hacksaw are that it produces fine copper filings ( and care must be taken not to get these into the pipes ) and that it will tend to flatten the pipe slightly — particularly if this is held in a vice . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | The disadvantages of market-orientation may be that it requires special leadership ( a ‘ bureaucratic ’ management would fail to achieve the required inter-relationships between the organisation and its customers ) and is likely to be costly in terms of staffing and other overheads . |
5 | And the beauty of it is that she embodies this core value of intimacy in her music better than anyone else who 's arrived on the scene in years . |
6 | The case for loans has been most strongly argued by a group at the London School of Economics whose main criticism of an entirely grant-based approach is that it favours better-off families , and as it is currently operated it leaves many students in poverty . |
7 | The chief virtue of a private property system is that it achieves this dispersal and is therefore structurally antagonistic to coercion . |
8 | A final objection to a Christian view of the Bible is that it bypasses human thought , and makes men into machines . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 ’ . |
11 | The essential feature of jobbing production is that it produces single articles or ‘ one-off ’ items . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | Its relevance here is that it defines general insurance business ( and divides it into seventeen classes ) and long-term insurance business ( divided into seven classes ) . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | The remarkable thing about Daryl Runswick 's operatic project , following a tradition set by Britten himself and acknowledged as such by the generous support of the Aldeburgh Foundation , is that it involves whole classes from primary and middle schools around Suffolk , not just the few so prematurely labelled ‘ musical ’ . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | The answer is that it lacks human agency or human intention . |
19 | One more positive criticism of the Economic theory of regulation is that it lacks sufficient structure to make it testable . |
20 | You see , the very exciting thing about multimedia from Ready Systems ' point of view is that it requires real-time software . |
21 | A key feature of the thesaurus database is that it requires specialized management ; not only must relationships be recorded and updated , but certain constraints on relationships must be imposed . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | One theory is that it awakens distant memories of floating in the comfort of the womb . |
24 | The importance of skill theory is that it relates human performance to systems concepts and to individual differences . |
25 | The significance of the concept of the linguistic variable is that it allows quantitative statements to be made about language use , so that Speaker A might be said to use more or less of a particular variant than speaker B , rather than categorically to use it or not to use it . |
26 | As its name implies , the distinctive feature of this automated trading system is that it emulates physical pit trading on the screen ; other electronic screen systems are order matching systems only . |
27 | What this means in essence when when you look at the geography of of the district is that it imposes severe restrictions on where you can distribute reasonable sized employment allocations around the district . |
28 | The advantage of this concept of function is that it avoids absolute distinctions between one kind of text and another . |
29 | One frequent argument for state control is that it facilitates economic planning of key sectors of the economy . |
30 | The point of this fracture between regulation broken and its consequences is that it facilitates corporate crime ; executives need only concern themselves with the likelihood of being leniently punished for breaking regulations , whilst ignoring its consequences for the law does not concern itself with the consequences either . |