Example sentences of "is that it [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The case for loans has been most strongly argued by a group at the London School of Economics whose main criticism of an entirely grant-based approach is that it favours better-off families , and as it is currently operated it leaves many students in poverty . |
| 3 | The information available to me , provided by Liverpool city council , is that it accepted 397 households as homeless in the second quarter of this year . |
| 4 | The chief virtue of a private property system is that it achieves this dispersal and is therefore structurally antagonistic to coercion . |
| 5 | A final objection to a Christian view of the Bible is that it bypasses human thought , and makes men into machines . |
| 6 | One of the problems arising from reliance on parental contributions is that it produces wide disparities between the resources available to schools with different catchment areas . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | The essential feature of jobbing production is that it produces single articles or ‘ one-off ’ items . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The remarkable thing about Daryl Runswick 's operatic project , following a tradition set by Britten himself and acknowledged as such by the generous support of the Aldeburgh Foundation , is that it involves whole classes from primary and middle schools around Suffolk , not just the few so prematurely labelled ‘ musical ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The answer is that it lacks human agency or human intention . |
| 16 | One more positive criticism of the Economic theory of regulation is that it lacks sufficient structure to make it testable . |
| 17 | You see , the very exciting thing about multimedia from Ready Systems ' point of view is that it requires real-time software . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | One theory is that it awakens distant memories of floating in the comfort of the womb . |
| 21 | The importance of skill theory is that it relates human performance to systems concepts and to individual differences . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | What this means in essence when when you look at the geography of of the district is that it imposes severe restrictions on where you can distribute reasonable sized employment allocations around the district . |
| 25 | The advantage of this concept of function is that it avoids absolute distinctions between one kind of text and another . |
| 26 | One frequent argument for state control is that it facilitates economic planning of key sectors of the economy . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | A unique feature of the Video Guide is that it offers alternative lesson plans . |
| 29 | The chief advantage is that it offers greater protection against predators . |
| 30 | Much of the attraction of NVOCC carriage is that it offers discounted rates , especially for less than a full container load of cargo . |