Example sentences of "is [that] it [vb -s] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The chief virtue of a private property system is that it achieves this dispersal and is therefore structurally antagonistic to coercion . |
2 | A final objection to a Christian view of the Bible is that it bypasses human thought , and makes men into machines . |
3 | He regards PR as a crucial issue and when told that one of its main criticisms is that it produces indecisive government , he came out with that wonderfully ironic comment — ‘ like the weak old government in Switzerland and in Germany and nearly the whole of Europe ’ . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Its relevance here is that it defines general insurance business ( and divides it into seventeen classes ) and long-term insurance business ( divided into seven classes ) . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | The answer is that it lacks human agency or human intention . |
9 | One more positive criticism of the Economic theory of regulation is that it lacks sufficient structure to make it testable . |
10 | You see , the very exciting thing about multimedia from Ready Systems ' point of view is that it requires real-time software . |
11 | A key feature of the thesaurus database is that it requires specialized management ; not only must relationships be recorded and updated , but certain constraints on relationships must be imposed . |
12 | The importance of skill theory is that it relates human performance to systems concepts and to individual differences . |
13 | As its name implies , the distinctive feature of this automated trading system is that it emulates physical pit trading on the screen ; other electronic screen systems are order matching systems only . |
14 | One frequent argument for state control is that it facilitates economic planning of key sectors of the economy . |
15 | The point of this fracture between regulation broken and its consequences is that it facilitates corporate crime ; executives need only concern themselves with the likelihood of being leniently punished for breaking regulations , whilst ignoring its consequences for the law does not concern itself with the consequences either . |
16 | A unique feature of the Video Guide is that it offers alternative lesson plans . |
17 | The chief advantage is that it offers greater protection against predators . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | The most interesting result is that it gives quicker search times for a long word list over the 26-way methods . |
20 | If the objection to a hatchback is that it means more noise in the cabin , the Safrane is an exception . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | The underlying rationale for any psychological or linguistic assessment is that it provides objective evidence which can be appropriately interpreted and evaluated . |
27 | That 's up is that it looks that way . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | The benefit of the first method is that it cuts total lead time while leaving each individual stage length unchanged . |