Example sentences of "it is [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The centre would be expected to offer an appropriate studies advisory service as well as guidance and counselling , and it is strongly recommended that specialist travel staff are involved in the student recruitment process . |
| 2 | Yet it is fast becoming conventional wisdom about the liberal markets of America , Britain , Canada and Australia , both at home and abroad in their less financially liberal rivals , such as Germany , Japan and France . |
| 3 | In the Soviet Union it is officially acknowledged that government needs more and more highly qualified personnel and an increasingly professionalized state administration . |
| 4 | When it is officially opened next month by King Juan Carlos , it will launch ‘ Any Miró ’ , the season of activities commemorating the centenary of the artist 's birth and culminating in a major survey of his art being organised by the Joan Miró Foundation , Barcelona and the Museum of Modern Art , New York . |
| 5 | 10.7.5 For the avoidance of doubt , it is hereby stated that use of technical information pursuant to Clause 10.7 b , c and d includes in particular , but without limitation , the development adaptation merger modification or enhancement of software and the use of such developed , adapted , merged , modified or enhanced software . |
| 6 | It is generally accepted that superoxide anion is most frequently the initial reactive oxygen species that results in production of a cascade of other reactive oxygen species such as hydroxyl radical , H 2 O 2 , and hypochlorous acid . |
| 7 | It is generally accepted that gastrin controls the growth of the enterochromaffin like cells of the oxyntic mucosa . |
| 8 | It is generally accepted that privatisation will have the most favourable effect on competition when monopolies are broken up or when new competition is introduced . |
| 9 | Although portal pressure is determined by the interrelationship of blood flow and vascular resistance , it is generally accepted that portal hypertension is initiated by an increased resistance to portal blood flow . |
| 10 | It is generally accepted that energy reductions of 10 per cent may be possible through simple steps which are often termed ‘ good housekeeping ’ . |
| 11 | It is generally acknowledged that gritstone is the acid test of a climber 's ability ; if you can handle its subtleties and idiosyncrasies , the inadequate creases and sparse protection , then the grip and pull or sharphold security of other rock types will be easy meat in comparison . |
| 12 | It is generally regarded that liquidity is a very important factor in the management of unit trusts , given the ability of unit holders to require payment for the resale of their sales on any day , and the above conditions relating to investment policy largely reflect the need to plan for adequate liquidity . |
| 13 | Since it is generally agreed that intelligence has a genetic component , can it not be argued that social inequality has a biological basis ? |
| 14 | Gutted raw fish are smoked slowly over wood chips and it is generally agreed that oak gives the best flavour , although other woods are preferred in some part of the world . |
| 15 | It is generally agreed that opposition success in the election will depend on a unified challenge to Congress , especially in the densely-populated Hindi-speaking states of the north . |
| 16 | It is generally agreed that maize was domesticated in Mexico and that its ancestor was a grass called teosinte , which grows in the hills to the south-west of Mexico City . |
| 17 | It is generally agreed that consent implies some knowledge on the part of the victim as to the type of act which the defendant is contemplating . |
| 18 | It is thus having one worker in the family that enables the other members to take low-paid work . |
| 19 | It is reportedly putting European distribution in place . |
| 20 | It is little surprise that legend and lore should have built up around it . |
| 21 | It is little known that poll tax collectors not only have the authority to arrest those they suspect of defaulting on poll tax and strip them naked for the purposes of search ( without any obligation to mend or replace clothing which is destroyed in the process ) , but they can also apply torture in cases where they have reason to believe poll tax is being withheld — at any rate until such time as the defaulters reveal where their money is hidden . |
| 22 | That 's what this house is here for , it is here to introduce primary legislation if we need it and in my view we do need it in this area and it is it 's high time the government recognised that and should not be afraid t t t to take action simply because primary legislation is required . |
| 23 | It is widely believed that penicillin , a substance obtained from moulds of the family called Penicillium , was discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at St. Mary 's Hospital in London . |
| 24 | It is widely recognised that air pollution due to human activity in populated areas and in the vicinity of isolated sources has become one of the significant environmental health problems of our time . |
| 25 | In this era , it is widely accepted that collectivism was an ideal cultural trait which could be harnessed to the growth of aggressive nationalism . |
| 26 | It is widely accepted that fibrin degradation products released after the action of plasmin on fibrin contribute to the development of inflammatory changes in several organs by increasing the permeability of the vasculature to protein . |
| 27 | It is widely accepted that City regulation is too fragmented to meet the challenges of insider-dealing and market manipulation . |
| 28 | It is widely accepted that infection is the primary cause of Whipple 's disease , but the importance of an associated immune deficiency in starting or promoting persistence of the infection is less clear . |
| 29 | It is widely anticipated that LMS will lead to more job losses . |
| 30 | Now we are of course talking principally on this sixty hectare allocation for the district outside the Greater York area because I think it is well understood this enquiry can have comparatively little impact on how much development takes place within the surroundings of Greater York , because I understand the site that 's being discussed is already committed and it is in any case part of the York pool rather than the Harrogate pool . |