Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [is] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 When it is electro-plated with silver it is called electro-plated nickel silver ( EPNS ) .
2 In future it is hoped that information will be posted at the nearest car parks , as well as at the crag , allowing for a change of plan before walking to the climbs !
3 In effect it is conceded that society was in a state of flux , consisting not of four but of five estates , subject nevertheless to fundamental reservations , for the labouring poor are not adjudged worthy of an independent voice .
4 The National Government had been allotted a definite task , and on its completion it is understood that Parliament should be dissolved as soon as circumstances permit , and that each of the parties should be left free to place its policy before the electors for their approval .
5 John Fordham on the Miles Davis session it 's taken four years to release and the week 's other albums Twisting , teasing trumpet Jazz .
6 ‘ The only people who are are the politicians whose job it is to sort this crisis out . ’
7 Certainly few people in the West , even the intelligence agencies whose job it is to monitor such dissidence , had much idea of the latent forces that this choice in the wilderness represented in Iran itself .
8 Even the Nato arms controllers meeting in Vienna , whose job it is to negotiate East-West reductions in conventional armed forces , can only pursue their objectives on the basis of confrontation between their alliance and the Warsaw Pact .
9 He could even turn up as one of soccer 's infamous ‘ jobsworths , ’ the stony-faced commissionaires whose job it is to keep ticketless journalists in a state of blind panic .
10 So clueless and misguided are these sorry types — so lacking in insight , intent and , bloody hell , a sense of humour — that if a great comedy show ever makes it to TV List magazine it can only be DESPITE the pony-tails whose job it is to shepherd these things to a laff-hungry public .
11 The two were never in danger and were helped down the trail by the men whose job it is to protect all presidents and vice-presidents .
12 Of course the bigger clients are getting the message and do keep in touch but with the rest it 's proving hard work teasing out the issues and reassuring there 's value in it for them .
13 The size and price of Sharp 's range of pocket LCD TVs confirm what a nonsense it is to predict large panel screens to hang on the wall are ‘ just around the corner ’ .
14 For by insisting it is the only way to knowledge it is dismissing other ways as unimportant , irrelevant and probably misleading .
15 For example it is hypothesised that disagreement over the budget is the most likely single cause of the breakdown of co-operative arrangements ; and that the operation of explicit ‘ codes of practice ’ governing inter-p[arty relationships is likely to reduce the tension and uncertainty inherent in hungness .
16 It also has to struggle with the social and economic consequences of the recession vested on the country by central government and of course it is expected this year to meet the costs of what is an unwanted and will be a costly and unsatisfactory reorganisation of local government .
17 A case of gamekeeper turned poacher , given that she had been a fast-stream entrant to the Treasury , much of whose function it is to resist that sort of demand . ’
18 It is an increasingly competitive market and conference organisers whose function it is to provide complete package deals for buyers are continually looking for new hotels and venues that can provide something different every year .
19 If a suicide should occur in hospital it is recommended that attention is paid to dealing with the resultant feelings both of patients and staff .
20 In this model it is proposed that thinning of the lithosphere and its partial replacement by hot asthenosphere might allow convective upwelling to become established below the zone of extension .
21 In this situation it is argued that corporatism , or tripartism , better captures the reality of crucial state-interest-group relations .
22 He fully accepts that there is the problem of the car 's contribution to the greenhouse effect and the way it is making new car buyers more critical and raising their expectations .
23 These models and requests can be communicated throughout the network to specialist nodes containing data and techniques whose purpose it is to establish those answers .
24 Around the top panel , the simple guilloche is interlaced only twelve times , while around the bottom panel it is interlaced seventeen times .
25 At this stage it is anticipated that quota trading to secure premium payment on ewes that were already part of the 1993 claim will take place between 15 April and 15 June — although the dates could be put back and the period might be shortened .
26 And at this stage it is expected that tagging will be confined to specified types and not involve the routine identification of all sheep — including hill ewes — as many farmers feared .
27 Each team is composed of a group of people from a particular ‘ faulty ’ area , whose task it is to resolve any problems once and for all .
28 Management as a process appears to be understood as being about taking decisions which will be more likely to be unpopular than those taken by lower ranks , i.e. , middle managers , whose task it is to mediate higher decisions by making them palatable in some way .
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