Example sentences of "[be] [conj] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A hacksaw may be the only possible tool to cut existing pipe which is installed against a wall ; however , the disadvantages of a hacksaw are that it produces fine copper filings ( and care must be taken not to get these into the pipes ) and that it will tend to flatten the pipe slightly — particularly if this is held in a vice . |
| 2 | Its two main features are that it lifts cooperative R&D ventures from the suspicion that they are illegal per se and puts them under the rule of reason , and it provides a registration system which protects firms from treble damages in the event that they are subsequently deemed to have violated the antitrust statutes . |
| 3 | This proved to be a fateful oversight since one of the most devastating criticisms to be levelled at Keynesian macroeconomics in recent years has been that it has such shaky foundations in microeconomics . |
| 4 | The disadvantages of market-orientation may be that it requires special leadership ( a ‘ bureaucratic ’ management would fail to achieve the required inter-relationships between the organisation and its customers ) and is likely to be costly in terms of staffing and other overheads . |
| 5 | The design of an aircraft structure falls into this category as the preferred solution for a component design would be that it has zero mass and infinite strength . |
| 6 | THE only way men could be relied on to take the proposed male contraceptive pill would be if it enlarged certain parts of their anatomy in the way the female pill enlarges breasts . |
| 7 | What would your ‘ payoffs ’ be if it came true ? |
| 8 | Well i by definition it must be if it excludes all A classes for example . |
| 9 | But if X + Y is an organic unity then the fact that it has 100 degrees of value may be because it has 90 degrees of value as a whole while Y has none . |
| 10 | The question then arises as to how specific the Community legislation has to be before it precludes national legislation . |
| 11 | As well , the rest of the house was as near to immaculate as a house could be when it contained three teenage boys and a busy man . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Dr Neil made vain attempts to stifle the bleeding , his own face now as grey as the bedlinen had been before it turned red . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The disadvantage of this is that it creates all the lingering resentment and hostility of ‘ win/lose ’ situation . |
| 16 | One of the evolutionary advantages of segmentation ( the division of the body into a series of similar parts ) is that it becomes possible to maintain an old function and acquire a new one simultaneously , by modifying the organs of one segment while leaving those of another unchanged . |
| 17 | The advantage of non-recourse lending from the point of view of a developer of promoter is that it becomes possible to structure the deal so that the entire transaction does not appear in the annual report and accounts . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The worrying aspect is that it gets worse each year . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | One of the chief attractions of the Reader 's Digest DOUBLE PAYOUT PLAN , however , is that it does more than offer you family financial security in the event of your death . |
| 24 | The problem with this definition is that it neglects other chemically and biochemically responsive sensors which lack a biolayer but which share not only similar functional principles , but offer equivalent analytical advantages . |
| 25 | The hon. Gentleman is asking a question which he knows will receive no answer , because the nature of a deterrent is that it remains uncertain — the nation that has it might be prepared to use it . |
| 26 | The chief virtue of a private property system is that it achieves this dispersal and is therefore structurally antagonistic to coercion . |
| 27 | A final objection to a Christian view of the Bible is that it bypasses human thought , and makes men into machines . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | The essential feature of jobbing production is that it produces single articles or ‘ one-off ’ items . |