Example sentences of "[be] that it [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The chief virtue of a private property system is that it achieves this dispersal and is therefore structurally antagonistic to coercion . |
| 5 | A final objection to a Christian view of the Bible is that it bypasses human thought , and makes men into machines . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The answer is that it lacks human agency or human intention . |
| 12 | One more positive criticism of the Economic theory of regulation is that it lacks sufficient structure to make it testable . |
| 13 | You see , the very exciting thing about multimedia from Ready Systems ' point of view is that it requires real-time software . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The importance of skill theory is that it relates human performance to systems concepts and to individual differences . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | One frequent argument for state control is that it facilitates economic planning of key sectors of the economy . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A unique feature of the Video Guide is that it offers alternative lesson plans . |
| 20 | The chief advantage is that it offers greater protection against predators . |
| 21 | One lucky spin-off from the system is that it reproduces intelligible sound at normal pitch , when the tape is played back at twice the intended speed . |
| 22 | The most interesting result is that it gives quicker search times for a long word list over the 26-way methods . |
| 23 | If the objection to a hatchback is that it means more noise in the cabin , the Safrane is an exception . |
| 24 | What constitutes the novelty of the Hellenistic age is that it gave international circulation to ideas , while strongly reducing their revolutionary impact . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | But for our present purposes , its interest is that it locates stylistic significance in the ideational function of language ; that is , in the cognitive meaning or sense which for the dualist is the invariant factor of content rather than the variable factor of style . |
| 27 | His basic criticism of the system is that it makes little sense on the level of integrity because it makes only superficial sense of human desire and action and , therefore , only poor sense of human happiness . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Lengthy works of great technical excellence have been written on the subject of costing , but the acid test of a well-organised system is that it provides useful information to management under each of the above headings . |
| 30 | The underlying rationale for any psychological or linguistic assessment is that it provides objective evidence which can be appropriately interpreted and evaluated . |