Example sentences of "[is] that it [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The first is that it maintain a monopoly of economic power . |
2 | The cute remark about the Irish tour is that it lasted a week too long . |
3 | One of the major benefits of this approach is that it promotes a sense of being ‘ in control ’ of the disease . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | The traditional view of the visual system is that it involves a cascade of processing stages running from the retina to the ‘ association ’ cortex . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Although it is frightening that so many people take Ecstasy to guarantee a ‘ good time ’ , what is more frightening is that it takes a Class A drug for them to feel they can lose their inhibitions . |
8 | The best thing about publishing is that it takes a book away from you and kills it . |
9 | In short , it is that it offers a way of by-passing ‘ the awkward corner ’ , Nearly twenty years ago Professor Joan Robinson observed that the predictable consequences of the attainment of near-full employment must , if institutions and attitudes did not accommodate themselves to the new circumstances , be so far to strengthen the power of the trade unions as to prompt a vicious spiral of wages and prices ; and that it would become chronic . |
10 | A special feature of the Video Guide is that it offers a variety of lesson plans to fit different teaching situations . |
11 | Its interest , as will already be clear , is that it offers a prospect of closing the gap between fact and value , bypassing the issue of whether or how one can draw prescriptive conclusions from descriptive premisses alone : it affirms the apparently naive claim that to know how to act I have only to be sufficiently aware of myself and my surroundings . |
12 | An added benefit , they say , is that it offers a lifeline to the unemployed . |
13 | The advantage of the échelle des crus system is that it recognises a distinction in quality between two undeniably fine and relatively similar growths . |
14 | The best estimate that I can get is that it has a development value of El 5 million . |
15 | The problem with trying to reduce particulates is that it has a trade-off in higher nitrogen oxides ( NOx ) produced , which are frowned upon in environmental legislation in the U.S. and EC . |
16 | The problem with such large fields is that it means a lot of walking , but the alternative is to search in smaller fields , which is not a good alternative . |
17 | The third benefit is that it yields a measure of capital . |
18 | The argument against trickle transfer is that it makes a nonsense of rational rational housing management . |
19 | One of the more significant aspects of the panel 's report is that it makes a try at preventing repetitions of the affair . |
20 | What emerges from an examination of the FFYP is that it set a pattern for the Soviet economy that persists up to the present day . |
21 | A further and very important advantage of this method is that it suggests a way of testing the validity of the rational expectations hypothesis itself . |
22 | In the wild the importance of this mechanism is that it prevents a bird from becoming totally ‘ hooked ’ on one kind of foodstuff , so that if that type of seed suddenly disappears it is not left stranded . |
23 | The essential feature of the family centre is that it provides a service to the whole family and not just the child although family centres may also provide other child-centred services such as day care , out-of-school activities and child health clinics. ( d ) Support at home Local authorities must make appropriate provision for the following services to be available to children in need who are living with their families ( Sched 2 , para 8 ) : ( i ) advice , guidance and counselling ; ( ii ) occupational , social , cultural and recreational activities ; ( iii ) home help ( including laundry facilities ) ; ( iv ) transport or assistance with travel expenses to and from the home so that the child may take advantage of any service offered ; ( v ) assistance to enable the child and his family to have a holiday . |
24 | The joy of a golden thread approach is that it provides a way of moving between the past and the very different circumstances of the present . |
25 | One of the differences , in my view , is that it provides a foot in the door for extremist parties of the sort that we do not want in Britain . |
26 | Thom 's main claim for his basic theory is that it provides a language enabling qualitative description of a system of moderate complexity embracing discontinuities . |
27 | Hence the geometric view of the path of a body in free fall is that it follows a geodesic in space time . |
28 | The answer reached by the court is that it awards a sum which is in the nature of a conventional award . |
29 | A characteristic of human verbal expression of pain is that it contains a mixture of private suffering and public display . |