Example sentences of "it is [verb] [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , it is not uncommon for alterations to be made to a side from the time it is announced until the team actually takes the field . |
| 2 | In areas of readily eroded rocks the rivers may carry so much load that one of two things may happen : either the estuary may be filled soon after it is formed or the aggradation may keep pace with the rising sea level so that there is not a stage of actual ria or estuary formation . |
| 3 | It is formed when the sun 's ultraviolet radiation breaks up the two atoms of oxygen molecules into single atoms . |
| 4 | But when it is discovered that a substance harms women 's reproductive health , women of childbearing age are usually kept from jobs that might expose them to it . |
| 5 | However , where it is discovered that the tax law does not have the effect that the Government and taxpayers generally thought it had , there are circumstances in which it is right to introduce legislation to restore the position retrospectively to what it was thought to be . |
| 6 | When it is discovered that the combination of certain proportions of charcoal , sulphur and saltpetre produces disagreeable results , then there is no reason why the benefits of gunpowder should be restricted to China . |
| 7 | If it turns out that this is not the case , if it is discovered that the prohibition denies the would-be rapists more of a chance to pursue the good life than it gives their possible victims , then one may have to adjust other features of the political framework to make sure that this does not result in inequality of ability to pursue one 's conception of the good . |
| 8 | When the sentence has been passed , possibly ( as the sentencer indicated in this case ) with the benefit of some mitigation , it is discovered that the means to pay either did not exist or have in one way or another disappeared . |
| 9 | It is fitting that a hero so maladroit should be a Malaprop as well . |
| 10 | In a university which aims to teach every official European language , it is fitting that the Centre for Speech Technology Research ( CSTR ) , Europe 's largest research institute dealing with speech-based human/computer interface , is a partner in the ESPRIT 2 ( POLYGLOT ) project to build multilingual speech input/output systems for seven of the major European languages . |
| 11 | ‘ Lord , ’ he said , ‘ it is fitting that the ambassador should be your man , and not mine . ’ |
| 12 | It is fitting that the river should , according to legend , be associated with Tamara , a beautiful nymph who in ancient times lived in a cave deep below the earth . |
| 13 | Stepan Trofimovich Verkhovensky is the most suggestive of all Dostoevsky 's accidental men , and it is fitting that the phrase itself should never be used of or by him . |
| 14 | The structure of the Pacific — its enormous , landless centre , its contorted and congested peripheries — is due entirely to the plates of which it is constructed and the manner in which they have moved in relation to each other . |
| 15 | The mountain before them was the birthplace of mankind ; and he referred the ladies , while excusing himself with an ingratiating laugh for mentioning an indelicate subject , to the authority of Our Saviour 's words to Nicodemus , where it is stated that a man can not enter a second time into his mother 's womb and be born once more . |
| 16 | It is stated that the moneys have to be additional to any funding by a member country which qualifies for assistance — hence the word ’ additionality ’ , which is associated with funding . |
| 17 | I NOTE that in Durham County Council 's publication Charter for the Environment it is stated that the council intends to reduce domestic and industrial waste by preparing a recycling plan for County Durham and encouraging district councils to collect waste for recycling . |
| 18 | I NOTE that in Durham County Council 's publication Charter for the Environment it is stated that the council intends to reduce domestic and industrial waste by preparing a recycling plan for County Durham and encouraging district councils to collect waste for recycling . |
| 19 | Later , in a treatise written in the eighteenth century , Mémoire sur la manière de cultiver la vigne et de faire le vin en Champagne ( written , it is believed , by Jean Godinot c. 1718 ) , it is stated that the Champenois had begun to study how to produce a ‘ grey … almost white wine ’ some fifty years before , that is to say approximately 1668 . |
| 20 | ‘ … In recent literature it is stated that the diet of Haas ( Banana-diet ) and Fanconi ( fruit and begetables ) gives the best results in the treatment of patients suffering from coeliac disease . |
| 21 | On many occasions assessments will be carried out because it is suspected that a child is experiencing some difficulty with linguistic communication , or because there are other areas of functioning in which the child is having difficulty which may have implications for language development . |
| 22 | Where it is suspected that a piece is made up of unrelated fragments , the composition can sometimes be studied to sort out which fragments are original , or at least which ones belong together . |
| 23 | It was threatening to resume bombing on the mainland and it is suspected that the closures were linked with indirect negotiations to induce them to change their intention . |
| 24 | It is suspected that the issue of lexical acquisition will form the basis of further studies . |
| 25 | Since most theses are lent for a period of one month , it could be that most borrowers are able to digest the contents of theses within this period , but , due to the widespread availability of photocopiers , it is suspected that the regulations on thesis copying are frequently broken . |
| 26 | It is suspected that the peat serves as a sediment filter in the watershed of Lake Kinneret . |
| 27 | Nor from the point of view of the speaker , is there any hard and fast boundary between these and a non-restrictive adjective used in order to make explicit some property , when it is suspected that the hearer is unaware that it is implied by the use of the noun , as with poisonous in : ( 10 ) she threw Maisie 's lunch-box out of the window because it had a poisonous red-back spider in it Note that ( 10 ) further exemplifies the fact that whether an adjective is taken as restrictive or not depends on the rest of the entity-identifying phrase rather than just on the head noun . |
| 28 | Investors do not usually grasp the minutiae of the trading experiences of the businesses in which they invest , but it is unsettling when a company such as Pentos , which has been proclaiming its readiness to do battle with the big boys over the Net Book Agreement , has a financial setback . |
| 29 | Secondly if the first question is answered affirmatively , it is necessary to consider whether there are any considerations which ought to negative , or to reduce or limit the scope of duty or the class of person to whom it is owed or the damages to which a breach of it may give rise . |
| 30 | In other words , it is to argue that the problem is a technical problem which admits of a technical solution . |