Example sentences of "[adv] it is [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spread over sixteen pages ( I , 56–71 ) these remarks function as part of a story , but as soon as they are put together it is a dull mind which does not reflect , ‘ Power corrupts , and absolute power corrupts absolutely ’ . |
| 2 | Apparently it is a big cut , but not so deep that it has done any irrevocable damage , at least that 's the impression I got . |
| 3 | Basically it is a good foundation to the day to include a glass of skimmed or semi-skimmed milk and a piece of fruit ( or fresh fruit juice ) with this meal . |
| 4 | Perhaps it is a distinctive signal which ensures that the parents do not eat the piglets but treat them with the restraint and solicitude due to babies . |
| 5 | If British Rail is under pressure to increase the frequency of its service , there is a case for a coordinated transport system operating bus and rail services , If there is a need for transport when it is not convenient to run rail services , or if only a certain number of trains can run on a line because goods trains and passenger services can not operate at the same time — although perhaps British Rail should be more innovative in its mix of passenger and freight services perhaps it is a good idea for British Rail and the bus services — as they are today , not as they will be affected by the Bill — to get together . |
| 6 | Perhaps it is a good question to ask . |
| 7 | This may , of course , be due to alcoholic withdrawal but then again perhaps it is a nervous reaction to the hell of this past week . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , yes , perhaps it is a classic situation . |
| 9 | Perhaps it is a basic rule of life that the deeper the emotional deprivations of the heart , the simpler our joys appear . |
| 10 | ( He is sometimes disturbed by the readiness of young women to do this ; perhaps it is a dietary taboo surfacing from his past . ) |
| 11 | An exquisite unreality catches the earth , or perhaps it is the ultimate reality . |
| 12 | Perhaps it is the extraordinary popularity of The Color Purple that has led some critics to accuse it of being an uncontentious , sentimental and harmless piece of libertarianism , a family homily that is not just optimistic but eventually even utopian . |
| 13 | Perhaps it is the hon. Member for Bolsover ( Mr. Skinner ) , who is willing to continue to enunciate the principle that there is no such thing as a free lunch . |
| 14 | If these examples reveal anything , perhaps it is the unwelcome truth that most of us are better at memorizing and applying formulae for solving certain types of predictable problems than we are at generating imaginative solutions to unfamiliar problems . |
| 15 | Perhaps it is the habitual leader of the group or perhaps the leader has arisen for that meeting on that topic . |
| 16 | Perhaps it is an acoustic source of sound waves . |
| 17 | ‘ But obviously it is a difficult decision for anyone to take . |
| 18 | He said she wrote better letters than any woman he knew — ‘ only it is a different letter each time you read it . ’ |
| 19 | It just it just takes the edge off it so it is a good tip actually it 's just if you 've time beforehand is just even as you were saying producing a thought pattern like this even just doing the first level just in pencil . |
| 20 | So it is a good practice to pay attention to your feelings as you learn , to try to pinpoint the cause of any negative feelings , and to take steps to remedy the situation . |
| 21 | So it is a major curriculum initiative itself and I am hoping it is going to have a knock-on effect and get people to consider the way they teach fairly radically . |
| 22 | So it is a major problem , this communication , and so we do have to work with local authorities , with teacher organisations , anyone who can help us in this task . |
| 23 | So it is a useful addition to our equipment . |
| 24 | Although this formalism is not strictly necessary for the analysis , the arrangement of spherical molecules of equal size in the liquid state will , to the first near neighbour approximation , be similar to a regular lattice structure and so it is a useful structure to use as a framework for the mixing process . |
| 25 | So it is a slow pitch , there 's very little pace in it for him , but it never puts him off , he still comes hurling in and er he 'll , he 'll flat out on anything , that it , we were saying some days he gets it right and others he does n't . |
| 26 | So it is a hostile atmosphere and so hostile was it in the United Nations that the Americans decided to cripple it , and what they did was to invoke erm an article which called for the removal of votes from those states who were in , who were in arrears in the payment of their dues , of their , their funds and there were several countries in that category , two of them the Soviet Union and France , and the reason why they had not pal paid their dues was because they objected to the use of the , these funds for peacekeeping forces which had not been authorized by the Security Council , in their argument the Security Council was the , the supreme authority and the General Assembly had in fact not the right to authorize er peacekeeping activities and indeed , if you read the charter , this is the case although legal advice is conflicting on that point as it usually is . |
| 27 | So it is a hostile atmosphere and so hostile was it in the United Nations that the Americans decided to cripple it , and what they did was to invoke erm an article which called for the removal of votes from those states who were in , who were in arrears in the payment of their dues , of their , their funds and there were several countries in that category , two of them the Soviet Union and France , and the reason why they had not pal paid their dues was because they objected to the use of the , these funds for peacekeeping forces which had not been authorized by the Security Council , in their argument the Security Council was the , the supreme authority and the General Assembly had in fact not the right to authorize er peacekeeping activities and indeed , if you read the charter , this is the case although legal advice is conflicting on that point as it usually is . |
| 28 | As is well known , the Italians are soccer mad and so it is a fair bet that come Saturday , Michaelangelo would forsake the Cistern Chapel and Leonardo Da Vinci break off from designing the clockwork egg slicer and instead be found occupying the terraces of Inter-Milan or Juventus . |
| 29 | So it is a wind-winnowing process that is responsible for the well sorted distribution of grain sizes that is characteristic of air-fall deposits . |
| 30 | Since then she has been but rarely seen here and so it is a special treat to have works on paper by her ( from the 1950s ) at Nicole Klagsbrun ( until 17 April ) . |