Example sentences of "[is] [that] it [verb] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of the considerable achievement of Michael Mann 's imaginative but faithful treatment is that it manages to make acceptable for the 1990s some of the outmoded attitudes of its characters , and yet refuses to go for that eco-trendiness that will make Dances With Wolves look dated by the turn of the century . |
| 2 | So the surprising feature of Ibstock Johnsen is that it continues to make any money at all . |
| 3 | The problem for the potential incumbent is that it has to get enough customers signed up to enable the prices quoted to be profitable . |
| 4 | The main difficulty with the HCF approach , however interpreted , is that it tends to jettison most of what is distinctive of religion . |
| 5 | ( c ) Another point which I take to be in favour of the theory is that it begins to make some theoretical sense of the intuitive feeling that what was wrong in the Gettier cases was that there was too much luck around . |
| 6 | One of the main criticisms of The Health of the Nation is that it fails to pay serious attention to health inequalities . |
| 7 | The point about [ 20 ] is that it seems to achieve most of its relevance through this range of weak implicatures . |
| 8 | One problem with the Royal College of General Practitioners is that it seems to equate general practice exclusively with being an NHS general practitioner . |