Example sentences of "[is] that it [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Cumings has pointed out , the importance of this paper is that it foreshadowed with considerable accuracy the sequence of events over the next three years , culminating in the formal establishment of the Republic of Korea in 1948 . |
| 2 | The sorry thing about teacher training is that it remains within such a restricting framework . |
| 3 | Another difficulty facing this definition or scope for pragmatics , is that it calls for some explicit characterization of the notion of context . |
| 4 | Of the many explanations for the collapse in the ninth century after such intensive cultivation without metals for 6–16 centuries , the most plausible is that it resulted from sustained failures of maize due to a leafhopper-borne virus , maize mosaic virus , which may have originated in northern South America at roughly the same time as maize was brought to the Caribbean by the Arawak about the time of Christ . |
| 5 | In fact one of the great things about this walk is that it keeps for most of the time to the shoulder of the fells so that they fall away steep sided below you giving you clear views out and down . |
| 6 | Moscovitch therefore suggested that the reason why the right hemisphere shows so little language ability under normal circumstances is that it suffers from inhibitory control by the left hemisphere . |
| 7 | But what makes the RNLI extra special is that it appeals to all ages . |
| 8 | ‘ The beauty of bonsai is that it appeals to all ages , ’ he says . |
| 9 | At roughly the same time Terence said , ‘ Another objection to Christianity is that it leads to passive acceptance of social inequalities because the real rewards are in … ’ |
| 10 | One is that it displaces wage costs out of the more expensive core to the somewhat cheaper periphery ; another is that it leads to stable long-term relations with suppliers which open up multi-directional flows of information between the partners in the subcontracting network . |
| 11 | The rationale behind such a comparative analysis is that it brings into sharper focus those very features of language which might elude stylistic analysis of a more traditional kind . |
| 12 | It is an imaginative use of the word , but what is significant about it is that it reappears in that sense in only one other place in the Old Testament , in the passage immediately preceding God 's appearance on Sinai . |
| 13 | The fundamental weakness of this approach is that it relies to some extent on the researchers ' imagination as to what the future may hold , particularly about what new goods and services might emerge , either directly from the new technology or simply because its higher productivity may give consumers greater spending power and so create demands for hitherto undreamed-of goods and services . |
| 14 | Secondly , a distinguishing characteristic of negligence liability ( and indeed of the legal approach in general ) is that it attaches to single episodes of management failure . |
| 15 | The only interesting thing about it is that it happened at all . |
| 16 | The good news is that it works for all ages . |
| 17 | But of course the thing about it is that it works for any shape . |
| 18 | The only good thing about it is that it lasts for six months , then immunity is acquired . ’ |
| 19 | The first is that it consists in visual imagery . |