Example sentences of "it is [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it is unseemly that the law should protect the publication of malicious falsehoods , absolute privilege is justified on the practical ground that without it , persons with a public duty to speak out might be threatened with vexatious actions for slander and libel . |
| 2 | It is higher than a year ago in every EFTA country and in every G7 country except Japan . |
| 3 | In the case of the high head , the stressed syllable which begins the head is high in pitch ; usually it is higher than the beginning pitch of the tone on the tonic syllable . |
| 4 | The rate of tax ( the ‘ poundage ’ ) differs ; it is higher where the property values are lower and where the needs for local expenditure are greater . |
| 5 | It is late and the sea is a little rougher so Tor decides to head for a sheltered inlet that he knows . |
| 6 | However , if it is unambiguous that a user wishes to change his mode of operation from , say , navigation to content search , his status will be changed transparently from , in this case , REPLAY to INACTIVE . |
| 7 | But it is paramount that the soloist be so directly acquainted with the score that he or she is able to offer us a personal interpretation of it ; in a sense , a critical commentary on it . |
| 8 | This excludes the Gettier cases because in them it is coincidental that the belief is true . |
| 9 | It is lamentable that the Government have not set up a Select Committee on Scottish Affairs , which could help us to deal with Scottish matters . |
| 10 | The aircraft were not insured , so the bill to repair them will be staggering and I 'm sure it is frustrating that the Museum 's project can not take top priority at the moment . |
| 11 | For example , in Littlewoods Organisation Ltd v Harris [ 1978 ] 1 All ER 1026 Megaw LJ said : … it is appropriate that a covenant , restricting an employee from full freedom of taking other employment when he leaves his existing employment , should be included in the contract of employment where there is a real danger that the employee will in the course of that employment have access to and gain information about matters which could fairly be regarded as trade secrets ; and that applies even though the information may be carried in his head and even though ( perhaps , particularly though ) it may be extremely difficult for the employee himself , being an honest and scrupulous man , to realise that what he is passing on to his new employers is matter which ought to be treated as confidential to his old employers . |
| 12 | He has been European golf 's generalissimo and it is appropriate that the decade opened to the sound of a Ballesteros devastation . |
| 13 | It is appropriate that the worship of the eternal-maternal should be the subject of one of the opening images of the exhibition . |
| 14 | It is appropriate that the image of beauty should not be fixed . |
| 15 | Referring issues to a named firm or company can run into similar problems but , again , it is appropriate when a dispute has already arisen : see 8.2.4 . |
| 16 | In the low head the stressed syllable which begins the head is low in pitch ; usually it is lower than the beginning pitch of the tone on the tonic syllable . |
| 17 | It is one-trial , because it requires only a single peck for the bird to learn ; it is avoidance because the result of the learning is for the bird to stop doing something it otherwise would ; and it is passive because the bird is not required actively to avoid , as it would if it had to escape from some unpleasant condition , but merely to refrain from pecking . |
| 18 | But whatever purpose your music has been commissioned for , it is typical that the company who commissions the piece obtains the copyright to it as well . |
| 19 | It is undeniable that a novel , as a text , consists entirely of language , and that we gain access to the fictional world only through language . |
| 20 | To put it no more strongly , it has not been proved beyond doubt that self-paced learning is the most effective , and it is odd that a movement claiming to " individualize learning " has paid such scant attention to individual personality and other differences among learners in its practice . |
| 21 | It is not clear to what extent the Securitate is now a ‘ state within the state ’ and to what extent it is directly answerable to President Ceausescu , but it is odd that the service 's worst excesses have occurred when the head of state is on an official trip abroad , in this case to Iran . |
| 22 | It is odd that the holder of such a view of human beings could have appeared in history as a humanitarian and heroic opponent of cruelty and barbarism ; it seems more appropriate to Hitler than to Beccaria . |
| 23 | Provision is made for timing differences between the treatment of certain items for taxation and accounting purposes to the extent that it is probable that a liability or asset will crystallise . |
| 24 | Provision is made for timing differences between the treatment of certain items for taxation and accounting purposes , to the extent that it is probable that a liability or asset will crystallise . |
| 25 | Provision is made for timing differences between the treatment of certain items for taxation and accounting purposes , to the extent that it is probable that a liability or asset will crystallise . |
| 26 | It is probable that a maypole tradition had already been in existence for many years , if not centuries . |
| 27 | The rate of growth of agricultural output in the Meiji period is subject to considerable dispute , but it is probable that a rate of around 1.8 per cent annual growth in output was maintained through to the early 1900s at least , far outstripping the rate of population growth in the same period . |
| 28 | For example , the pressures on nomadic and tribal peoples to adopt a more settled way of life are increasing , and it is probable that a number of these groups may either cease , or radically alter , their rug-making traditions in the foreseeable future . |
| 29 | Deferred tax should be accounted for to the extent that it is probable that an asset or liability will arise . |
| 30 | Deferred tax should be provided to the extent that it is probable that an asset or liability will arise . |