Example sentences of "it is [verb] [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously , as it is situated near to the famous Vale of Evesham , the market garden of England , the produce is excellent . |
| 2 | It is as inadequate to argue , for example , that the PCF was simply the institutional terrain in which Nizan pursued a carefully orchestrated campaign of political and literary self-advancement and careerism , as it is to argue that for the majority of the ten years that he spent in the PCF Nizan remained unaware of the imperfections of Stalinist Soviet communism . |
| 3 | The future is a plate of steel floor covering that creaks and whistles as it is dragged clear of the supports to which it was bolted down thirty years before . |
| 4 | I am now 70 years of age and whilst my hair still grows quickly in length , it is getting thin on the scalp and it is still fine , flyaway and dry . |
| 5 | This result is probably implicit in the concept of appropriation ( or ‘ conversion ’ ) ; but it is made explicit by the provision in clause 3(1) that a person 's assumption of the rights of an owner ‘ includes , where he has come by the property ( innocently or not ) without stealing it , any later assumption of a right to it by keeping or dealing with it as owner . ’ |
| 6 | It is made redundant by the enormity of the city . |
| 7 | The price for tax purposes will now include any accessories added to a car after it is made available to an employee , unless these were made available on or before 31 July 1993 and excluding those worth less than £100 . |
| 8 | It is made active by a chemical switch which is only found in malignant tissue . |
| 9 | Motivation is often increased if it is made clear to a group that they are covering a topic on behalf of the whole class and that their results will be shared by the rest of the class . |
| 10 | ( vii ) In every case it is made clear to the prisoner from the information supplied to him that he may not be recommended for release at the end of his tariff period at the first or any subsequent review . |
| 11 | It is made clear to the prisoner from the moment he sets foot in the institution that his personal feelings are considered irrelevant . |
| 12 | Bob Ewell who is the father of the so called victim , Mayella , is prepared to use his influence as a white to get Tom convicted even though we know that it is Bob Ewell who should be taking the punishment as it is made clear in the trial that he is the person who abuses Mayella not Tom . |
| 13 | ( 7 ) Where a bona fide offer has been communicated to the board of the target company , or the board has reason to believe that a bona fide offer may be imminent , the issue of any further shares in the target will ( unless it is made pursuant to a contract entered into earlier ) constitute frustrating action under Rule 21 ( see para 18.2.2.2 below ) and will be prohibited unless approved by shareholders in general meeting . |
| 14 | If it is to do this in a more precise , less trade-distorting way , it is bound to be less helpful to big and efficient farms than to small ones . |
| 15 | Earlier , there had been disturbances in Snowdrop Street in the Kirkdale area of Liverpool where it is understood one of the youths being questioned was arrested . |
| 16 | The liberationists , with the possible exception of Rollin , do seem to regard the use of animals for food as the cardinal vice , although it is run close by the fuss over furs and field sports . |
| 17 | Now it is assumed all in a household have an equal share of the total income . |
| 18 | It is wiping sick from the carpet , worrying about the size of my thighs , being woken in the night by a crying baby and meeting my children from school that I want to remember , laugh at and celebrate . |
| 19 | It is believed one of the major problems facing the clubs ' proposals then was the fact that they were both in the same league . |
| 20 | When it is realized that of the fifteen largest corporations in the world in 1978 , three were car manufacturers , eight were oil companies , and one was in chemicals , it can be appreciated that the largest corporations within the most concentrated sections of international capital formation are committing more than their share of law violations . |
| 21 | The literary essay is a species always on the edge of extinction , and ( unlike most endangered species ) it is threatened most by the professionals in the field . |
| 22 | It is a matter of deep concern to many small businesses — it is killing some of the most enterprising small firms — that they are not able to obtain proper payment of debt , often from larger and better-funded institutions than themselves . |
| 23 | A large brood is spawned , and it is recommended some of the developing fry be removed from the parents within the first two weeks of them becoming free-swimming , so as to achieve a high survival rate . |
| 24 | This is not to say that the world dictates the pattern for the Church to adopt , but to point out that the Church must be constantly examining itself to ensure that it is remaining true to the gospel and that the only barrier is the inescapable offence of the atoning message of the cross which stands at the centre of that gospel . |
| 25 | The gaps between them are so big that if you plunge your arm through into the mantle , the clam is quite unable to grip it — though the experiment is a little less unnerving if it is tried first with a post . |
| 26 | It is standing firm with the United States , in its clipped and undemonstrative sort of way . |
| 27 | Although the company has a plant in London , it is expected some of the work will go to the company 's French factories . |
| 28 | It is expected some of the Manual will be suitable to be offered to the Contracts and Purchasing Working Group charged with producing their own procedures document for BS5750 . |
| 29 | Specifically , a stricture in ulcerative colitis is more likely to be malignant ( 1 ) if it occurs after 20 years of duration of the disease , ( 2 ) if it is located proximal to the splenic flexure , and ( 3 ) if it presents with obstructive symptoms . |
| 30 | It is introducing more of the latter which is posing the biggest problems . |