Example sentences of "it is [art] [adj] [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has a blessing to give his eldest and favourite son , but it is a poor thing compared with Jacob 's , so poor it is hardly recognizable as a blessing and could be taken for a curse : |
| 2 | A more difficult question in relation to severable contracts is whether a breach of condition in relation to one or more instalments entitles the innocent party to regard the whole contract as repudiated or whether it is a severable breach confined to the instalments in question . |
| 3 | Ought not the pharmacologist or the villager to obey the law , given that it is a good law issued by a just government ? |
| 4 | It is a mid-18th-century mansion built by the famous architect , John Adam , and typically consists of a main building with two connecting wings . |
| 5 | This book does not aim to be a comprehensive text covering the philosophy and principles of Homoeopathy ; it is a practical book designed to be used by anyone wishing to treat the common acute illnesses , particularly those occurring during childhood . |
| 6 | Its unacceptability would be shared by a great number of people , except that it is a levelling process restricted to a single aspect of human life , whereas the advantages of wealth can operate effectively and valuably in so many others . |
| 7 | The emphasis of the book from now on is of a pragmatic nature , but I hope it is a sanctified pragmatism applied to operating within and shaping the contemporary manifestations of the Church of Christ . |
| 8 | It is a modern building built about thirty years ago . |
| 9 | It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit . |
| 10 | This does not convey authority over the specialist ; it is a co-ordinating role added to the specialist role . |
| 11 | It is a confidential service staffed by professionally trained counsellors . |
| 12 | It is a powerful text based database , primarily set up by typing in field names and parameters . |
| 13 | It is a computer-generated image based on the calligraphy of Kobo Daishi , the 9th century monk who is said to have invented the Japanese phonetic script . |
| 14 | Just 200 yards from the centre of town , it is a cool oasis set in a beautiful , mature garden with deckchairs . |
| 15 | A charming cluster of house , rectory and church , it is a perfect gem set in peaceful parkland overlooking its lakes . |
| 16 | In the Lepismatidae and Pterygota the hypopharynx is typically a simple lobe with a number of suspensory sclerites but in most Diptera it is a stylet-like structure pierced by the salivary canal and in some cases is used as a piercing organ . |
| 17 | It is a white villa hidden in pine-trees in the tree-clad part of the island , Calavría . |
| 18 | It is a free workshop run by four musicians-producers who have worked with many of the great names : Pete Towhshend , Chaka Khan , Desmond Dekker , Alexander O'Neal , Joan Armatrading , The Gypsy Kings and question mark Sinitta . |
| 19 | It is a superbly-run event staged upon a sumptuous golf course , and although it is the youngest of the four major championships , it has built itself a tradition founded on the legendary career of Bobby Jones . |
| 20 | But , in some respects , it is a conservative policy adopted by a museum weak in the New Art created during the last ten years . |
| 21 | Whether it is a Christian student surrounded by relativism on a university campus or a Christian family surrounded by the influence of the mass media , too few are awake to the danger . |
| 22 | It is a special effect used in thousands of films and TV dramas — the charges trigger a flash to create a realistic gun shot effect . |
| 23 | Mastering phrasal verbs and idioms is frequently the greatest challenge facing the advanced learner , and it is a considerable challenge given the idiomatic richness of the English language . |
| 24 | It is a romantic adventure set in a time when the role of women was very much restricted by dress and their rights , but compared to ‘ Anna Karenina ’ it is a modern novel , first published in 1941 . |
| 25 | It is a remarkable column surmounted by a Doric capital which is in one block of marble 14 feet square and nearly five feet high ( 101 ) . |
| 26 | It is a dramatic island viewed from the sea and I can understand Alexander Dumas choosing it as a setting for his novel The Prisoner of Zenda . |
| 27 | This is not a private prison as such — it is a public building built and run by taxpayers ’ money . |
| 28 | It is a cautionary tale told with sad humour on the border between innocence and togetherness . |
| 29 | To discover the electron is rather different from discovering the kangaroo , because it is a theoretical entity inferred from certain abstruse experiments ; and Thomson 's apparently crucial experiment turned out in the twentieth century not to be so . |
| 30 | It is a shared ritual quickened by dramatic action . |