Example sentences of "[subord] it [is] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | If the policy-making area is technical and complex , public officials have a decided advantage , even though the state may not have a total monopoly of technically relevant knowledge in policy areas where it is pursuing corporatist arrangements . |
2 | The aim throughout the year will be to cover all aspects of accompaniment ; Piano in October , Percussion in January , Taped Music in March and , finally in June a Music Workshop where it is hoped qualified teachers will bring along tapes and records that they have used in their classes and which might be helpful to other teachers . |
3 | If it is still more important to you to enjoy your fishing , using methods and approaches more akin to your liking , than it is to catch big fish at the cost of a great deal of enjoyment , then there are still a few waters where you can use ‘ classic ’ tactics . |
4 | Teacher support groups are increasingly being set up to provide the opportunity for greater honesty , and it can be less threatening for people who feel isolated to join one of these than it is to make individual overtures within their own staffroom . |
5 | ‘ We believe it is no more difficult , no more expensive and no more labour intensive to provide healthy , nutritious , tasty , well-presented food than it is to provide unhealthy food . |
6 | In the last chapter , I discussed the kinds of things the brain must be doing if it is to generate observed behaviour . |
7 | It is as well to appreciate that a body in free fall from a fixed starting event will follow different geodesics if it is given different starting velocities . |
8 | The main programming problems are likely to arise in the correct timing of the phase excitation changes ; the program segment responsible for the time delay between Steps must be carefully written if it is to provide accurate timing , as well as perform a useful secondary function . |
9 | The disciplines of active life in the sense of worldly help to others , or the necessity for study , are to be like " stikkes " laid on the burning coal that represents man 's innate desire for God and needs to be nourished if it is to provide full light and heat ( 35 – 9.397 – 449 ) . |
10 | Processes such as DVI , for example , will need to improve radically if it is to provide acceptable video at HDTV standards . |
11 | The expedient of the withholding of manifestations of love from the very young child amounts to the instilling of the first tiny measure of fear , and fear , used in conjunction with reward provides the fundamental tools which the adult population must have if it is to maintain steady progress towards the civilisation it desires . |
12 | If it is to have empirical consequences it must rule out many other ways of understanding the pattern of metaphors . |
13 | The legislature 's vote was an embarrassment for Mr Kravchuk , but it has left Ukraine with a paralysed government at a time when the country must react swiftly if it is to survive increased prices for Russian fuel . |
14 | He says that if it 's given regular pruning there 's no reason why it should n't live for a few hundred years more . |
15 | Erm it 's obviously right and proper that a local planning authority if it 's releasing green field sites has to justify why those sites should be released . |
16 | At the moment paid employment ( even if it 's making rubber ducks for export ) brings status and income , whereas work , which we all do to keep going and may well do voluntarily in our communities , carries neither income nor status . |
17 | Yeah , cos it 's called Early Learning Centre . |
18 | In addition , wood will deteriorate and eventually rot unless it is given regular maintenance . |
19 | Does he agree that steps must be taken to persuade the Turkish authorities to give such compensation , because it is causing great hardship ? |
20 | The Bulgarian government has decided to suspend production at the country 's biggest lead plant for several months because it is causing severe pollution to nearby agricultural land . |
21 | I just think that will have to change , because it is creating utter havoc and misery in the community . ’ |
22 | Cleared , were dispersed , and what have you got next , anyway after that , that that 's obviously a very problematic thing , because it 's using poetic images which are very difficult to move into modern standard English , but what have we got for the rain of heaven please ? |
23 | The latest victim of the IRA 's border sniping , lance corporal Lawrence Dickson , was hit from a distance of just 200 metres , while it is estimated private Paul Turner , killed in Crossmaglen last August , was hit from just 125 metres . |
24 | According to the Post , the government watchdog took the step because it is battling with the two companies over discount and marketing data , which it reckons it needs in order to determine whether it is paying fair prices for computer products . |
25 | The choice of economic incentive ultimately depends upon the purpose of this strategy , whether it is to reduce specific types of pollution generally or in given geographical areas , to reallocate funds for investment in pollution control or to compensate victims of air pollution . |
26 | Drama is a piece of literature that only works when it 's given threedimensional form . |
27 | ‘ The need for proof is essential because many organisations fail to recognise bullying , even when it is causing serious disruption within their workforce . |
28 | The incidents came at a time when Sellafield was already facing prosecution for allegedly not taking proper safety precautions at its high-level waste processing plant ( see above ) and when it is seeking new authorisations for discharges into the air . |
29 | But it too uses passive tests most frequently when it is studying female subjects . |
30 | They will actually responsibility of Local Government and er we 've tried to put in here something that even Conservative Councillors could support , even though it 's attacking Conservative Ministers , cos they must actually believe in Local Government to actually serve on Local Government , one would think , but er , but th the problems of under-funding are th could be very serious . |