Example sentences of "[noun sg] it is an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In essence it is an internal management tool to identify potential liabilities , to highlight whether environmental performance can be improved and to indicate where financial savings can be made . |
| 2 | Er but at the festival it is an appropriate moment . |
| 3 | With its strong colour it is an ideal cheese for cooking in a microwave as it will add colour to dishes that would not otherwise brown . |
| 4 | As Lord Diplock pointed out in 1981 , on the one hand it constitutes ‘ a major invasion of privacy ’ , while on the other it is an important weapon available to the police and the security services , whose business it is to maintain law and order and protect national security . |
| 5 | In this sense it is an addictive illness although , unlike other addictions such as drug taking , the sufferer is not to be blamed for having allowed herself to become addicted . |
| 6 | In one sense it is an optimistic phenomenon . |
| 7 | Although this amounts to a transformation of theory and its object it is not clear in what sense it is an epistemological break . |
| 8 | In this sense it is an all-embracing world-view . |
| 9 | Again , in our case it is an absolute requirement that we should have the support of the localities in which we place our factories . |
| 10 | The microphone may be built into the camera , in which case it is an omnidirectional microphone which picks up sound in a very general way . |
| 11 | Feeding soldiers is not a glamorous business ; for the most part it is an administrative function that goes unnoticed . |
| 12 | ‘ For some older workers it would make a lot of sense , because together with our ordinary voluntary redundancy payment it is an attractive package . ’ |
| 13 | In theory VAT is a tax to promote efficiency In reality it is an added burden on those who are already geographically disadvantaged . |
| 14 | Congress against this background , the Northern region welcomes this report it is an impressive report which signifies the importance that the G M B attaches to issues of health and safety and it indicates that this union will continue to maintain its high standards in this crucial area . |
| 15 | While this delay may not cause difficulties for the production of the final version of a map it is an inefficient way to proceed during the stage of map design . |
| 16 | Used in one context it is an essential skill for handling difficult situations , in another it is used as an equivalent for laziness . |
| 17 | Much of the time it is an unsightly mud-channel . |
| 18 | Perhaps most importantly , it would seem that we have no grounds for believing that the meaning of a word , when viewed in this fashion , is finitely describable — without severe circumscription it is an unpromising candidate for formalisation , or representation in terms of logical or quasi-mathematical formulae . |
| 19 | Yet by any measurement it is an important factor . |