Example sentences of "[is] [that] it [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Compania de Telefonos de Chile SA 's $182.6m proposed convertible bond issue won ratings of triple-B-minus rating from Standard & Poor 's Corp , and Baa-3 from Moody 's Investors Service Inc ; Standard & Poor 's said its rating reflects the company 's dominant position in local telephone services , growth prospects , and favourable regulatory framework ; Moody 's that it believes the company will continue to be the largest telecommunications company in Chile and will benefit from a supportive regulator . |
2 | The first is that it maintain a monopoly of economic power . |
3 | But the main weakness of this type of explanation is that it ignores the relationship between the various parts of the state apparatus and their socio-economic environment under both pre- and post-independence regimes . |
4 | A second problem with compensation theory is that it ignores the period during which any changes are taking place — the transitional period . |
5 | One of the criticisms of reporting convertible debt as a liability is that it ignores the equity rights which are inherent in an issue of convertible debt . |
6 | The weakness of this approach in terms of the British civil service is that it ignores the force of ministerial responsibility . |
7 | My main difficulty is that it reduces the principle enunciated by this House in the Hoffmann-La Roche case to the status of an arbitrary rule — what Dillon L.J . |
8 | One of the reasons for the beneficial effect of dietary fibre is that it reduces the absorption of cholesterol — but there are other ways , too , in which it would appear to perform useful functions in keeping the heart healthy . |
9 | But one consequence of such stylistic infection is that it reduces the difference between the text being written about and the essay , and dissolves the boundary ( and difference of purpose ) between the two . |
10 | On a portable , the justification for this is that it reduces the weight , but the BJ-200 is n't a portable . |
11 | One interpretation of the intermittent energy which Joseph Sturge put into the free produce movement in the 1840s is that it constituted an attempt by a Friend who had launched out into public and even political life to maintain links with more traditionally quietist brethren who none the less looked for greater perfection in the world . |
12 | His view of this " delirious " material ( note the etymology of délire ) is that it breaks the rules of language ( grammar , syntax , semantic cohesion ) but that it does not mean nothing . |
13 | Winch 's criticism of this way of looking at morality , as we have shown , is that it separates the person who acts from the world in which he acts , and a man has to be shown that it is worthwhile for him to act morally . |
14 | Where data analysis differs from conventional systems analysis is that it separates the data structures from the applications which use them . |
15 | The cute remark about the Irish tour is that it lasted a week too long . |
16 | ‘ It is unacceptable in our democratic society that there should be a restraint on the publication of information relating to government when the only vice of that information is that it enables the public to discuss , review and criticise government action . |
17 | ‘ It is unacceptable in our democratic society that there should be a restraint on the publication of information relating to government when the only vice of that information is that it enables the public to discuss , review and criticise government action . |
18 | Perhaps its most useful asset is that it enables the user to locate references in relevant literature . |
19 | An attractive aspect of this approach is that it enables the designer to concentrate on particular areas of the processor 's operation . |
20 | One of the major benefits of this approach is that it promotes a sense of being ‘ in control ’ of the disease . |
21 | One of the distinctive things about modern Darwinism is that it exploded the myth of group selection . |
22 | The most significant aspect of the New Historicism , political questions apart , is that it represents a move away from the contextless , intensive concentration on particular texts equally characteristic of the New Criticism , classical structuralism , and deconstruction . |
23 | What gives a name as a name its special status is that it represents the transcendence " of the object relative to any particular description that might be given of that object . |
24 | An additional advantage of this method of presentation is that it made the situation less realistic for subjects . |
25 | The second major respect in which the assertion of the social rights of citizens has become more important is that it expresses the claims of very diverse groups in society to equal treatment , and at the same time broadens considerably the range of what are to be regarded as social rights . |
26 | The traditional view of the visual system is that it involves a cascade of processing stages running from the retina to the ‘ association ’ cortex . |
27 | Bortoni-Ricardo 's main hypothesis about change in social structure associated with the change from rural to urban life is that it involves a move from an insulated network consisting largely of kinsfolk and neighbours to an integrated urban network where the links will be less multiplex and associated with a wider range of social contexts . |
28 | The essence of the crime of assault , as distinct from battery , is that it involves an apprehension of the immediate application of unlawful force . |
29 | The reason why a search of premises which is not authorised by law is illegal is that it involves the tort of trespass to those premises : and any trespass , whether to land or goods or the person , that is made without legal authority is prima facie illegal . |
30 | One of the implications of the interrelation of Truth and ahi sā in Gandhi 's thought is that it involves the welfare of all men . |