Example sentences of "[is] that it [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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31 | 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 . |
32 | The most interesting result is that it gives quicker search times for a long word list over the 26-way methods . |
33 | Certainly , one of the organisational reasons for centralising the buying function in a company is that it gives senior buyers more clout . |
34 | If the objection to a hatchback is that it means more noise in the cabin , the Safrane is an exception . |
35 | What constitutes the novelty of the Hellenistic age is that it gave international circulation to ideas , while strongly reducing their revolutionary impact . |
36 | 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 . |
37 | 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 . |
38 | 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 . |
39 | 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 . |
40 | A particular advantage of the telephone interview method is that it makes less demands on the time of managers than conventional ‘ face-to-face ’ interviews . |
41 | 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 . |
42 | All that we ask is that it provides public answers to the question most people in this country are asking . |
43 | The underlying rationale for any psychological or linguistic assessment is that it provides objective evidence which can be appropriately interpreted and evaluated . |
44 | That 's up is that it looks that way . |
45 | 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 . |
46 | The thing is that it costs 40 lira to go up now , but if he had waited just one hour more , till the 11 a.m. departure , he would have had to pay only two lira . |
47 | 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 . |
48 | The benefit of the first method is that it cuts total lead time while leaving each individual stage length unchanged . |
49 | Another reason for the prominence of And waited in the above example is that it repeats verbatim information that has already been established in the previous sentence . |
50 | The relevance of Christian thinking is that it puts certain limits on the market place , not on the basis that they are politically necessary to secure greater freedom in the market economy , but that they are right and desirable in themselves . |
51 | The importance of this work is that it puts economic factors firmly back on the agenda as explanations of crime . |
52 | The advantages of this technique is that it puts less strain on the legs than straight front pointing and the uphill foot ( the one most difficult to flex when flat footing ) is kept horizontal . |
53 | The first is that it introduces more subjectivity into the accounts . |
54 | One disadvantage , however , is that it acquires static electricity , causing it to pick up dirt easily . |
55 | The usual reality is that it applies histrionic measures to tackle topical crime . |
56 | The general principle underlying the definition of the term is that it excludes physical property which a potential purchaser can inspect . |