Example sentences of "[is] that it [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The chief virtue of a private property system is that it achieves this dispersal and is therefore structurally antagonistic to coercion .
2 A final objection to a Christian view of the Bible is that it bypasses human thought , and makes men into machines .
3 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 ’ .
4 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 .
5 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 ) .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 The answer is that it lacks human agency or human intention .
9 One more positive criticism of the Economic theory of regulation is that it lacks sufficient structure to make it testable .
10 You see , the very exciting thing about multimedia from Ready Systems ' point of view is that it requires real-time software .
11 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 .
12 The importance of skill theory is that it relates human performance to systems concepts and to individual differences .
13 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 .
14 One frequent argument for state control is that it facilitates economic planning of key sectors of the economy .
15 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 .
16 A unique feature of the Video Guide is that it offers alternative lesson plans .
17 The chief advantage is that it offers greater protection against predators .
18 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 .
19 The most interesting result is that it gives quicker search times for a long word list over the 26-way methods .
20 If the objection to a hatchback is that it means more noise in the cabin , the Safrane is an exception .
21 What constitutes the novelty of the Hellenistic age is that it gave international circulation to ideas , while strongly reducing their revolutionary impact .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 The underlying rationale for any psychological or linguistic assessment is that it provides objective evidence which can be appropriately interpreted and evaluated .
28 That 's up is that it looks that way .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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