Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [noun sg] [noun] be " in BNC.

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1 This might seem onerous but it guarantees that configuration control is maintained and , with some care , should be a very unusual occurrence .
2 The CEGB disclosed the escalation in nuclear costs as it announced that operating profits are £603 million lower than expected at £355 million .
3 Even the Irish edition of the Daily Star said something positive about Sellafield recently when it reported that radon gas was to blame for 500 deaths every year .
4 The UN has said it has strong evidence Iraq is hiding about 100 of the Scud missiles of the type it fired at Israel and Saudi Arabia in the Gulf war , but Iraq denies it .
5 It seemed that record companies were always too interested in other places to look .
6 A few months ago it seemed that oil markets were in for a chill spring .
7 It seemed that time scales were important to him .
8 Does it follow that Citizen Kane is seeking the BS5750 business accreditation for playing and performances ?
9 IBM is hoping that the popularity of workflow computing models will drive uptake , but it acknowledges that message queuing is not a new concept ; what is new it says , is the attempt to implement it across multiple manufacturer 's machines .
10 It senses that division managers are both suspicious of their motives and covering up their suspi-cions .
11 As is the case with the parasitic wasp , it seems that sex allocation is occurring in response to environmental variation .
12 Tangible links are where SBUs have buyers , distribution channels , technology or competitors in common ( Porter has three categories , but it seems that competitor interrelationships are just as much a tangible link as those he specifies under that heading ) .
13 Now it seems that percentage rugby is the name of the game .
14 It seems that potency level is as much to do with satisfying the need of the practitioner to feel that they are doing something as being a systematic deductive process !
15 It seems that portal hypertension is the essential feature of this association .
16 Latics ' cash-strapped manager Joe Royle admitted he may still try to arrange a loan deal for the Anfield veteran , but it seems any transfer fee is beyond the range of the Lancashire club 's purse .
17 It seems popular science writing is being redefined thanks to the arrival of a clutch of lavishly-packaged works that investigate new realms where the once-separate worlds of physics , spirituality and human adventure emerge .
18 But in the course of the conveyancing , it emerges that planning permission was not obtained .
19 Thus it follows that skill training is more generalised and generalisable and is better fitted to the overall role of human operators .
20 But complaining , I mean , if he 's got ta complain it means that quality assurance is n't there .
21 The frequency of such bids has made it seem that stockmarket valuations are arbitrary , that bidders are stealing money from somebody else rather than creating wealth , and that American and British managers spend too much time shuffling assets and too little investing ( that is , building factories ) for the future .
22 But it admits that Adobe technology is often the default standard , and wants to make the technology available within NewsPrint .
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