Example sentences of "it is [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is good news for jobs and it is good news for the town . |
| 2 | It is terrible news for publicists and headline hunters everywhere but the secret has to be revealed . |
| 3 | It is standard practice in museums to ‘ register ’ objects as they are acquired , and the register is the primary record of a museum 's holdings . |
| 4 | It is normal practice for hotels to require confirmation from a prospective guest in writing . |
| 5 | Rather than rely on common law , it is normal practice for purchasers to specify in the sale agreement the basis on which damages will be calculated . |
| 6 | It is that community of persons whose lives are dedicated to a life of prayer and contemplation . |
| 7 | It is that pattern of perceptions , feelings , attitudes , goals and values that individuals have about themselves . |
| 8 | While , for each , the idea of critical abilities is important , it is one feature among others . |
| 9 | Now , it is one thing for parties to produce programmes which offer a choice , but it is quite another matter as to whether the parties actually implement their programmes once in office . |
| 10 | It is one application of psychometrics to man-power planning ( see previous chapter ) . |
| 11 | If anything stands at variance with the evidence , it is this system of beliefs . |
| 12 | It is this existence of policies determining most everyday practice in a department that provides the most crucial group of constraints for a new minister . |
| 13 | It is this range of performances rather than any coherent body of theology which most social anthropologists have in mind when they refer to the magico-religious system . |
| 14 | It is this state of affairs which Labour and the Liberal Democrats would have continue . |
| 15 | It is this gap of values , arising from the use of imprisonment in a free society , that largely sets the prison reform agenda . |
| 16 | It is a text which explores the pain and grief caused by having one 's desires destroyed by the pressures of social convention and it is this set of emotions which has sustained its reputation in gay subcultures . |
| 17 | Hence , the challenge for GIS user interface design is to gain credibility for generic forms of interface : it is this form of GIS use that will ensure wider and more informed use of GIS in the years ahead . |
| 18 | It is this stage of trials that can be quite lengthy as teachers need to be able to try out material at a suitable place in the curriculum . |
| 19 | It is this combination of factors that has led to a stream of government interventions over pay determination , productivity and working practices , investment and closure decisions , and industrial conflict . |
| 20 | It is common practice for workers to take the spare pack home to peruse — the bureau that assigns time to a worker specifically for reading is rare ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 21 | It is common practice for diplomats to be tortured for information . |
| 22 | In formal debates only one amendment may be before the meeting at any one time , but it is common practice in committees to allow several amendments to be moved , seconded and accepted . |
| 23 | If this is true of differences between the two superpowers , then it is truer still of differences between the First and Third worlds . |
| 24 | But if it is bad news for borrowers , investors have never had it so good . |