Example sentences of "it is [adj] to [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Keats called it ‘ negative capability ’ and it is akin to Ernest Hemingway 's ‘ becoming strong in the broken places ’ . |
| 2 | It is similar to Ostertagia spp. and can be differentiated by its greater length ( up to 2.0 cm ) . |
| 3 | Because its characteristics can be treated mathematically it is central to quality control via samples . |
| 4 | Because its characteristics can be treated mathematically it is central to quality control via samples . |
| 5 | Thus , although it is amenable to antibiotic therapy like a bacterium , it is , like a virus , an obligatory intracellular parasite . |
| 6 | Because it is inhumane to shuttle people between facilities these patients usually remain within the NHS . |
| 7 | It follows from the foregoing considerations that part ( a ) of question ( 2 ) in the Factortame case ( Case C 221/89 ) must be answered in the affirmative : it is contrary to Community law for a member state to stipulate as a requirement for the registration of a fishing vessel in its national register that the owners and operators of the vessel , whether they be natural or legal persons , or 75 per cent . |
| 8 | In other words , it is contrary to Community law for a member state to lay down as a requirement for registration that the owners , operators , shareholders and directors , as the case may be must reside and be domiciled in that member state and , in the case of a company , that it must have its principal place of business there . |
| 9 | ( 2 ) ( a ) It is contrary to Community law for a member state to stipulate as a requirement for the registration of a fishing vessel in its national register that the owners and operators of the vessel , whether they be natural or legal persons , or 75 per cent . |
| 10 | of the directors and shareholders of a company owning or operating the vessel must be nationals of the state , even if the competent national authority has the legal power to dispense with that requirement in the case of certain persons ; ( b ) it is contrary to Community law for a member state to lay down as a requirement for registration that the owners , operators , shareholders and directors , as the case may be , must reside and be domiciled in that member state and , in the case of a company , that it must have its principal place of business there ; and ( c ) it is not contrary to Community law for a member state to make the grant of its flag subject to the requirement that the vessel must be managed and its operations directed and controlled from within that member state . |
| 11 | It would be appropriate here simply to give a brief outline of events , and then limit any review to the ways in which it is relevant to John Howard and his cause . |
| 12 | It is critical , however , that practitioners bear in mind the basic principles of income tax namely that if income arises in the United Kingdom it is subject to income tax or if the taxpayer is resident in the United Kingdom income which is his wherever it arises will be chargeable to income tax . |
| 13 | There are a number of reasons for thinking that such information transmission may be easier to manage if it occurs within firms than if it is subject to market transactions , and this means that there is a case for thinking that R&D activities ( particularly the D ) may have to be part of a vertically related structure that extends back into important input markets , and forward into downstream consumer markets ( see Teece , 1986 , Geroski , 1992 , and Jorde and Teece , 1990 , who apply these arguments to the antitrust treatment of co-operative R&D ventures ) . |
| 14 | It is not a practice we can condone but it is preferable to brewery closure . |
| 15 | However , there are certainly other industries where it is normal to group activities in this way . |
| 16 | It is available to WACC members at the special price of £8 from WACC , 357 Kennington Lane , London SE11 5QY , UK . |
| 17 | It is available to WACC members at the special price of £8 from WACC , 357 Kennington Lane , London SE11 5QY , UK . |
| 18 | It is helpful to date entries . |
| 19 | Damage to the apical meristem shows similar patterns with respect to distance from adults and density of seedlings as the pathogen damage in Platypodium , though in Dipteryx it is due to insect herbivory and tree or litter fall . |
| 20 | But much more of it is due to consumer-goods firms having encouraged shoppers to buy on price by bombarding them with special offers . |
| 21 | It is due to blood poisoning ( septicaemia ) which sometimes goes with meningitis , particularly the meningococcal strain . |
| 22 | The solution for an elastic cylinder in place strain is need to be found from the boundary conditions , Now if is the circumferential tension in the thin band it is equal to b times the interfacial pressure . |
| 23 | It is exclusive to Harvey Nichols , Knightsbridge , London SW1 ( 071–235 5000 ) . |
| 24 | It is possible to programme variations on these by using both divergent and parallel curved and straight lines . |
| 25 | Many languages clearly have a common source so it is possible to group languages into families of which the following are the largest : |
| 26 | Many languages clearly have a common source so it is possible to group languages into families of which the following are the largest : |
| 27 | It is possible to book alarm calls , make transferred charge calls , telephone for travel information , for the time , the weather , or just to listen to a story or some music ! |
| 28 | It has of course been said that it is possible to practice veterinary medicine and that many doctors do not communicate in any language but it has to be said that there is room for improvement . |
| 29 | It is convenient to Birmingham City Centre , Birmingham International Airport , train stations , M5/M6/M40 Motorway Network . |
| 30 | In particular , it has been suggested , it is important to bombard pupils with questions , particularly with questions of the " why " and " how " type , in addition to the " what " type and comprehension type of question . |