Example sentences of "[be] that it [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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31 | 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 . |
32 | 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 . |
33 | All that we ask is that it provides public answers to the question most people in this country are asking . |
34 | The underlying rationale for any psychological or linguistic assessment is that it provides objective evidence which can be appropriately interpreted and evaluated . |
35 | Another syntactic feature of topic is that it controls anaphoric reference so that ( a ) once an element is announced as topic , this element may be omitted altogether in subsequent clauses , hence the proliferation of subjectless clauses in languages such as Chinese and Japanese ( see Chapter 6 , p. 185 , for an example of Japanese subjectless clauses ) , and ( b ) an element announced as topic overrides possible coreferential links with other elements in the sentence . |
36 | 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 . |
37 | The benefit of the first method is that it cuts total lead time while leaving each individual stage length unchanged . |
38 | Another reason for the prominence of And waited in the above example is that it repeats verbatim information that has already been established in the previous sentence . |
39 | 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 . |
40 | The importance of this work is that it puts economic factors firmly back on the agenda as explanations of crime . |
41 | One disadvantage , however , is that it acquires static electricity , causing it to pick up dirt easily . |
42 | The usual reality is that it applies histrionic measures to tackle topical crime . |
43 | The general principle underlying the definition of the term is that it excludes physical property which a potential purchaser can inspect . |
44 | 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 . |
45 | It has been shown above that those with larger mortgages and those on higher incomes benefit most from MITR , but one of the main arguments originally put forward to justify its existence was that it benefited first-time buyers , enabling them to purchase a house which would otherwise have been beyond their means . |
46 | The main point of the case was that it involved domestic property where the client would suffer ( as a private purchaser ) a relatively great loss if the report were negligent , while the risk that would have been undertaken by the surveyor , if he had accepted liability for negligence , would have been relatively low , since it was a routine survey of domestic property , and for him , as a businessman , the value of the property in question was not relatively a great amount of money . |
47 | One notable feature of the gold standard was that it allowed automatic adjustment to take place via changes in expenditure and output . |
48 | The positive achievement of this tradition was that it allowed different communities , and their claims over their members , to be acknowledged and valued with a new , official respect . |
49 | One of the good things about the school was that it overlooked open countryside , where there were usually buzzards and kestrels flying around . |