Example sentences of "[is] that it [verb] [det] " 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 disadvantage of this is that it creates all the lingering resentment and hostility of ‘ win/lose ’ situation . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | The chief virtue of a private property system is that it achieves this dispersal and is therefore structurally antagonistic to coercion . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | is that it helps all the 910 missionary dioceses of the world through a central fund , to which all countries , including the missionary countries themselves , contribute . |
7 | The value of a condensing boiler is that it retrieves most of the expensively generated heat from flue gases and puts this heat back into the system . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 2.2 Business secrets The particular importance of an express clause covering business secrets during employment is that it avoids some of the problems encountered in Bjorlow ( GB ) Ltd v Minter ( 1954 ) 71 RPC 321 . |
10 | One of the reasons it thinks that COSE is interested in its participation is that it has some key technology that in typical DEC fashion , it has failed to trumpet . |
11 | If the objection to a hatchback is that it means more noise in the cabin , the Safrane is an exception . |
12 | One of the work 's main strengths is that it covers all social positions . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | A particular advantage of the telephone interview method is that it makes less demands on the time of managers than conventional ‘ face-to-face ’ interviews . |
17 | The most obvious definition for labouring poets is that it includes all those whose support normally depended on manual work , either their own or that of their families . |
18 | A second important contribution made by the notion of implicature is that it provides some explicit account of how it is possible to mean ( in some general sense ) more than what is actually " said " ( i.e. more than what is literally expressed by the conventional sense of the linguistic expressions uttered ) . |
19 | That 's up is that it looks that way . |
20 | Which in some senses , defining it crudely , is that it matters more what you are than what you do . |
21 | BUYER : The problem with your tractor is that it costs more than your competition . |
22 | The advantages of this technique is that it puts less strain on the legs than straight front pointing and the uphill foot ( the one most difficult to flex when flat footing ) is kept horizontal . |
23 | The problem with this type of promotion is that it undermines any sensible perception which purchasers of children 's books might have of what constitutes value for money . |
24 | The first is that it introduces more subjectivity into the accounts . |