Example sentences of "it is [vb pp] to [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Considerable effort by senior management needs to be devoted to refining information so that it is related to local units , uses easily understood concepts and yardsticks , has illustrations and examples , is consistent and is a careful balance between mentioning failures and successes . |
| 2 | He was the first gold medal winner ( 1902 ) of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy , his obituary in Nature noting : ‘ It is given to few men to discover a process which has had such a far-reaching effect in almost every branch of civilised life . ’ |
| 3 | A further criticism may be levelled against the ‘ past use ’ theory of weeding , particularly when it is applied to public libraries , where most of Slote 's studies were carried out . |
| 4 | The internal picture would then look exactly like that for the Hall effect in any normal conducting solid , except that it is limited to two dimensions . |
| 5 | The language of section 20(1) ( iv ) ( b ) is wide enough to cover larceny by a bailee or part owner and embezzlement ; but it is a matter of dispute whether it does so or whether it is limited to those types of misappropriation , originally not criminal , for which the Act of 1901 was intended to provide . |
| 6 | Finally , and significantly , voting rights exercisable by discretionary portfolio managers are attributed to them ( although member states are allowed to postpone the notification requirement in this last case so that it is tied to general meetings ) . |
| 7 | Well , there is the fact that it is connected to sensory endings that are designed specifically to respond to vibrations in the air . |
| 8 | The process is of course , the reverse of the lowering , the ladders being used until it is raised to forty-five degrees , then the ropes take over . |
| 9 | It is left to individual men to find the way — to create small islands of sanity in an ocean of storms . ’ |
| 10 | Where enamel remains on these teeth it is restricted to small islands separated by areas of dentine . |
| 11 | It is used to different degrees in different authorities , which indicates that some have found a way to avoid this particular form of compulsory removal . |
| 12 | Secondly , recent changes in the structure of the civil service with the development of the agency model through the Next Steps programme will not improve matters unless it is linked to changing roles and relationships . |
| 13 | However it is linked to these things because they and it are part of a complex whole , and this rules out the simple correlations between two elements which Engels sought to establish in his ‘ historical ’ discussion . |
| 14 | This molecule has two possible structures , one within the potassium atom bound to a single oxygen atom and one in which it is attached to two oxygens . |
| 15 | Two principal types of construction are used : on street sections grooved tram rail is laid directly on to a solid track-bed , while on the Promenade it is spiked to wooden sleepers . |
| 16 | Our quantified investigations ( for example , J. Milroy , 1984 ) , however , have repeatedly demonstrated that the only environments that show a consistent front-raising pattern are these velar environments ; thus , while it affects the whole phoneme /ae/ in conservative RP , it is confined to velar environments for most Belfast speakers . |
| 17 | Since pollution is noticeable to others , and not necessarily at its source , it is suited to reactive methods of enforcement and field staff are accordingly sensitive to the need to respond to complaints . |
| 18 | It is supplied to commercial users in a roll and usually by weight in 1 kilo quantities to be cut to desired lengths . |
| 19 | Where it is suggested to professional advisers , the suggestion will commonly be met with the caution and dubiety they naturally bring to a proposal lying outside their experience or practice . |
| 20 | When this definition is filtered through the banking domain filter set it is reduced to 84 words in length . |