Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] it [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 By loading specific parts of the system with food or water it has been possible to investigate , for example , the role of the stomach in the termination of eating and drinking .
2 Sun Microsystems has spent the last year revamping its American resellers program and has de-authorised some 900 low value add locations for not making the kind of long-term commitment and investment it believes is necessary to a sound business model .
3 One of the things I want to argue is that in order to construct certain exemplary models of antiracist policy and practice it has been necessary to operate in terms of a reductive representation of racism , one which not only scales down its reality , but ignores its more complex features .
4 That working-class wages would remain at subsistence level — the fact is that the real wage of the average worker has increased by a factor of over ten between 1900–70 in the UK and by a factor of fourteen in the U S over the same period ; that collective ownership of the means of production would result in an increase of wealth for the workers and so improve their lot — the fact is that in both Russia and Cuba it has been necessary to restore discipline in factories by introducing a military routine with the surplus value being siphoned off by the state ; that communist revolutions would start in such advanced industrial countries such as Britain , France , America and Germany — the fact is that a socialist revolution has taken place in none of these countries ; that conflicts between states are the results of capitalism and will cease under communism — the fact is that in the streets of Budapest and Prague , in Afghanistan and on the Soviet-Chinese border we have seen the power of the Red Army being used against fellow communists ; that the income difference between capitalists and workers will rise — the fact is that in all industrial countries the effective after-tax , after-benefits real income gap between rich and poor has diminished ; that capitalism will collapse because of its internal contradictions — the fact is that capitalism has not collapsed in any Western country , yet .
5 The control over text and graphics it allows is immense , and some of the functions that differentiate it from the rest of the Windows word processor league are particularly appropriate for a word processor — sentence selection being a case in point .
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