Example sentences of "[be] that it [vb -s] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advantages of restricting the stories in length in this way are that it saves time , forces students to focus only on details which they regard as essential , and yields versions which are comparable in terms of length and economy to the Hemingway version . |
| 2 | Disadvantages of the stuff are that it attracts fluff , hair and biscuit crumbs . |
| 3 | For the Governor , though , the main benefit has been that it gives prison officers ‘ permission to be concerned ’ in a structured and consistent way . |
| 4 | The force of law is that it becomes part of common sense , and makes ‘ common sense ’ prescriptions about public order , theft and hard work . |
| 5 | The value of the sociological perspective is that it enables students to see why society believes in the discipline in question . |
| 6 | One of the advantages of this approach , or so it is claimed , is that it enables governments to pursue policies based upon consent and voluntary cooperation and thereby to avoid both the ‘ law of the jungle ’ ( monetarism ) and the ‘ jungle of the law ’ ( statutory incomes policies ) . |
| 7 | The uniqueness of the Christian faith is that it orients man to hope in God , to respond to his love and to rest in God alone as the only source of ultimate happiness . |
| 8 | The official line is that it remains Government policy never to comment on allegations of this nature . |
| 9 | An equally important reason for God 's giving music to us is that it forms part of our response to him . |
| 10 | The advantage of using a sound-based code with working memory is that it produces memories which are more durable than those based upon a purely visual code , and this gives us more time to calculate the meaning of the sentence . |
| 11 | The first major problem with Fforde 's work is that it equates collectivism with socialism , which is as historically wrong as it is jejune . |
| 12 | Because the ministry has been brought into being by God , the result is that it bears fruit , whether it is among the gentiles in Pisidian Antioch or the whole group of hearers in Lystra . |
| 13 | The most likely explanation of anting is that it helps birds like the European jay to keep their feathers in good condition . |
| 14 | Professor Lynch is uncertain how the fungal growth enhancer works ; a likely possibility is that it helps combat natural toxins that develop in seed and potting composts . |
| 15 | The rationalization is that it helps patients . |
| 16 | The point about sacrifice is that it represents slog , sweat and tears . |
| 17 | We sometimes claim that the merit of an English sixth-form education is that it accustoms pupils to think for themselves . |
| 18 | The one thing that can be said in favour is that it sends vegans and animal rights activists incandescent with rage . |
| 19 | One of the principles of hypnopaedia is that it transforms sleep into hypnosis . |
| 20 | What all the programmes indicate is that it takes commitment and enthusiasm on the part of Rover , the schools and their pupils , if such initiatives are to produce the engineers of the future . |
| 21 | The one useful generalisation about war in impoverished Africa is that it takes place where there are not many expensive weapons for soldiers to kill each other with , but where the conditions of organised life are so fragile that its disruption causes lots of civilians to die of famine and disease . |
| 22 | Although one character does get to chunter on for half a page about how the real point of fund-raising is its feelgood side effects ( get-away ! ) , there is really no satirical content here at all : the real point of the book is that it features loads and loads of cartoon rumpy-pumpy : randy housewives and naughty underwear , haystacks and giant inflatable condoms , improbable sexual positions and unlikely transvestites . |
| 23 | One quality of backbench life which is distracting for those with a professional or commercial training is that it lacks coherence , and there is an aimlessness which is debilitating . |
| 24 | The problem with the former , i.e. the standard on depreciation , is that it requires organizations to provide for depreciation of fixed assets having a finite useful life . |
| 25 | the snag with this option is that it requires people to be rational and let their ‘ heads rule their hearts ’ . |
| 26 | This can create something of a dilemma for the anthropologist and for the discipline itself , for one of the tenets of social research is that it requires detachment . |
| 27 | A characteristic feature of the gastric parietal cell apical membrane is that it possesses omeprazole sensitive H + , K + -ATPase . |
| 28 | But the chief advantage of the linguistic analogy in any narrative theory is that it allows literature in general and narrative in particular to be read as a self-contained system independent of any realist function . |
| 29 | the major benefit of the system is that it allows partners and managers to tap into the system directly . |
| 30 | One advantage of this approach is that it allows time to test the technologies that build the confidence on which sensible arms control rests . |