Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] that it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The particular benefits of this approach for this study were that it provided quantitative data on important treatment/intervention issues in a population where group-comparison studies alone would be inappropriate , because of the individual nature of each person 's challenging behaviour and the small number of potential subjects . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The most interesting result is that it gives quicker search times for a long word list over the 26-way methods . |
| 4 | The most telling comment on the wealth of the metropolis is that it had more men worth upwards of £100 than most other towns had taxpayers of all grades ; indeed , the number of four-figure assessments equalled the total taxpayers of some tiny market towns . |
| 5 | A common theme emerging from much of the second tradition of cross-national research is that it becomes possible to examine the complex ways in which national industrial relations variations are bound up with wider processes of political and economic development , particularly the phasing of industrial development ( as in Dore 's work ) , the nature of the state and underlying class relations . |
| 6 | However , a consequence of so extending the scope of the imperative is that it becomes relevant only to the logic of value judgments , and has no direct bearing on how far a creature adapted to heed only what pleases it can push towards awareness against the grain of organic functioning . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Much of the attraction of NVOCC carriage is that it offers discounted rates , especially for less than a full container load of cargo . |
| 9 | The general principle underlying the definition of the term is that it excludes physical property which a potential purchaser can inspect . |
| 10 | The conclusions of one other major research was that it had substantial social implication of personal family in community lives so these papers were discussed in great detail . |
| 11 | The real clincher was that it made better tea and beer than the pump muck . |
| 12 | The importance of this work is that it puts economic factors firmly back on the agenda as explanations of crime . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The argument of all crackdown law is that it applies special , draconian measures to tackle some heinous crime . |
| 15 | Any initial work in multicultural mathematics may be seen to be tokenistic , especially if the only obvious reason for its inclusion is that it represents other cultures . |
| 16 | An almost universal feature of determination is that it involves subtle chemical changes , almost certainly turning on or off genes , and the overt result may not be seen for many hours . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Advanced foundations — Max Factor 's High Definition Foundation , £5.49 , contains moisturisers and sunscreens but the difference is that it contains smaller than ever coloured pigments . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | A final objection to a Christian view of the Bible is that it bypasses human thought , and makes men into machines . |
| 22 | That , that 's , that And your other point was that it had some quite specific information about what the problem was . |
| 23 | What was impressive about the group was that it included six US Nobel laureates in economics and a broad bi-partisan collection of the best of American economic thought . |
| 24 | The whole raison d'etre of that early Christian community was that it believed certain things of Christ — at the very least , that it was he whom God had raised from the dead . |
| 25 | Its greatest drawback is that it requires human beings to adapt themselves to the production process , and in most Western countries , there has been a reaction against this requirement . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The significance of the concept of the linguistic variable is that it allows quantitative statements to be made about language use , so that Speaker A might be said to use more or less of a particular variant than speaker B , rather than categorically to use it or not to use it . |
| 28 | What constitutes the novelty of the Hellenistic age is that it gave international circulation to ideas , while strongly reducing their revolutionary impact . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | One of the criticisms frequently made by industry concerning pollution control policy is that it causes severe economic dislocation and unemployment . |