Example sentences of "[noun sg] it is [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The holding company , General Synod , files a separate set of accounts , as do the Church Commissioners , whose job it is to manage the greater part of the Church 's historical property . |
| 2 | Furphy , whose recent past included a spell in the United States , ( where a high flyer leisure executive delivered the ‘ amazing ’ one liner , which has stuck in his mind to this day ) is the hands on marketing man whose job it is to oversee the vast membership growth that is enabling Lloyd to expand at the rate of two clubs per year . |
| 3 | The fashion industry has a complicated early warning network of expert consultants who job it is to identify the sure commercial looks of the future . |
| 4 | Sometimes the photographers will organise this for you , but if there are a large number of photographs to take then you should consider using a specialist photographic accessoriser whose job it is to provide a good selection of suitable props from which you and the photographer can choose on the spot . |
| 5 | We have branches in every part of Wales whose aim it is to protect the local environment , while encouraging sustainable forms of development . |
| 6 | Originally , the cross celebrated the vernal equinox and the rites of spring associated with the goddess Eostre , from whose name it is said the Venerable Bede derived the name for Easter . |
| 7 | Because there are three parts to this definition it is called the tripartite definition or the tripartite account ; it defines propositional knowledge , knowledge that p ; it does not define knowledge by acquaintance as in ‘ a knows James ’ nor knowledge-how , e.g. knowledge how to ride a bicycle , unless these can be shown to reduce to knowledge-that . |
| 8 | A typical form is shown in Figure 6.6 ( d ) , and you can see that there are several concentric rims , in which case it is called a multiringed basin . |
| 9 | In both cases the camouflage is interfering with the natural elements , but in one case it is attacking the whole shape , while in the other it is blotting out the appendages . |
| 10 | In addition to the various extrinsic leg-muscles mentioned above , whose function it is to move the whole limb , there are also muscles lying within the segments of the leg . |
| 11 | One of the remarkable features of Troilus and Cressida is that Shakespeare has developed , out of sources as diverse as Chaucer and Chapman 's Homer , two prose characters , one for the Trojan , one for the Greek camp , whose function it is to reduce the two great themes of epic , love and war , to their lowest common denominator : appetite . |
| 12 | When the disk is found to be free from a virus infection it is given an electronic signature code . |
| 13 | When the disk is found to be free from a virus infection it is given an electronic signature code . |
| 14 | To this end it is creating a universal type for Cobol ‘ 97 to enable any message to be sent or any method to be invoked . |
| 15 | The LAN Support Group has also said that later in the year it is to add a fourth module , the Software Distribution Manager , which enables BindView to distribute applications across several local area networks from a single site . |
| 16 | It was the beginning of the birth pangs of quantum theory , whose characteristic it is to replace the continuous by the discrete , the smoothly varying by the fitful . |
| 17 | At the same time it is bringing a new generation of management into the MB Group boardroom to mastermind the next phase of the company 's expansion . |
| 18 | Seriously though , what a fillip it is to have the stylish Danes here for what is , after all , the proper start to the European Cup . |