Example sentences of "[noun sg] that it is [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Three other LEDs are used to set up the operating status , arranged in a horizontal ‘ traffic light ’ formation : red indicates that the input signal is below the Threshold level , yellow that it has reached Threshold , and the green that it is above Threshold . |
2 | The first contends that the word ‘ appropriate ’ has built into it a connotation that it is some action inconsistent with the owner 's rights , something hostile to the interests of the owner or contrary to his wishes and intention or without his authority . |
3 | The matter had been taken up with the Bank of Ireland and he would be recommending to the incoming Executive Committee that it should be referred to the Labour Court , on the basis that it is gross discrimination . |
4 | Studies to detect the exact mutation or deletion in the APC gene are needed in this and other atypical families before conclusive evidence that it is this locus and not another locus close by such as the MCC gene that is affected . |
5 | The most damaging effect of the Education Reform Act would be if it snuffed out teachers ' belief that it is worthwhile thinking and talking about what they are doing . |
6 | Mr Powell , of course , has not been notably shy about declaring his belief that it is black people who are at the root of the decline and fall of the ‘ British way of life ’ . |
7 | This underlines the argument that it is poor children whose rearing is most likely to appear to agencies to be unsatisfactory . [ … ] |
8 | We can also recognise , as we did , at an , on an earlier paper that it is national government policy and increasingly so , to encourage the development of capital schemes , borrowing , we noted that in relation to transport and the availability of S C A's I think it 's also right to say that the government does set down the level of borrowing which can be entered into in in any one year , that is the credit approvals are controlled by the government and they do make them available to the County Council and to district Councils , so in a sense , the government is both saying that we expect borrowing to be a feature of a budget and also that we want to control , and restrict the amount of money that can be borrowed through the amount of credit approvals . |
9 | before before the meeting proper may I refer you to first of all the voice amplification system is currently working but er there are some difficulties with it and it may during the day deteriorate to a state that it is more trouble than it 's worth . |
10 | Then there is toughened glass , which is homogeneous in the sense that it is all glass , but the outside , which is susceptible to cracks , is put into compression at the expense of a tension in the protected middle . |
11 | Communism is the left foot of socialism , and Fascism is the right foot , using socialism in the sense that it is total regimentation and control by the state . |
12 | Before 1981 the authorities concentrated on a whole range of liquid assets and on broad measures of money supply , like M3 : the argument being that it is broad liquidity that determines credit creation and broad measures of money that influence aggregate demand . |
13 | I merely hope that I will not be a Charles talking about the fire cover again for today and er perhaps in future times for the simple reason that it is one thing to make a budget , it is one thing to do a . |
14 | And that success led to television programmes about advertising , pages in the quality press about the media world , and , of course , the image that it is all Porsches , champagne and fun . |
15 | There is a strong tradition that it is bad luck to disturb a standing stone or stone circle and fear of retribution has undoubtedly helped preserve many that might otherwise have been removed for building stone , gateposts and the like . |
16 | If New Yorkers notice it at all , few have any idea that it is 1,500 years old , and many would be deeply shocked if they knew , reckoning that anything over 20 years old must be dirty and out of date . |
17 | This plausibly supports the view that it is relative deprivation which is causally related to crime , and that in conditions where unemployment is perceived as unjust and hopeless by comparison with the lot of other groups , this will act as a precipitant of crime . |
18 | It 's something both they and lesbians have always been blamed for , despite the now well-publicized fact that it is heterosexual men who commit by far the most assaults on boys , as well as girls . |
19 | What makes The Rape so durably haunting is not its ( rather banal ) conceit of a woman viewed literally as a sex object , but the fact that it is that woman with that neck and that terrifying and terrified hair . |
20 | A two year old car which is essential for the business — The fact that it is essential for the business would seem to rule out NRV whilst the fact that it is two years old would suggest that original cost is inappropriate . |
21 | The fact that it is underrepresented highlights the need to draw translators ' attention to it . |
22 | It can be argued that for a second chamber , whose main functions are the consideration of less controversial Bills and the revision of other Bills from the other place without , however , power finally to frustrate the will of the democratically-elected chamber , ( as is now the case with the House of Lords , see below , pp.98–9 ) the fact that it is undemocratic matters little , provided that it is competent to do the job expected of it . |
23 | ‘ It has proved reliable , and the fact that it is four-wheel drive is very handy if you 're coping with a greasy slipway or launching off a beach , ’ says Peaks . |
24 | Others questioned the fact that it is unskilled jobs that are disappearing and suggested that workers are , in general , being deskilled in manufacturing industry . |