Example sentences of "it is [adv] the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet in their courses of professional training , it is normally the information retrieval classes that most students describe as boring , difficult and irrelevant . |
| 2 | It is probably the water tank . |
| 3 | It is also the colour pattern flaunted by hover flies and clear-wing moths that visit English gardens alongside bees and wasps . |
| 4 | It is also the banking centre of the ship and carries out all administrative work required to allow the passengers to enjoy their holiday . |
| 5 | It is also the tax district to which the company submits forms P11D . |
| 6 | Its material significance , however , derives from the fact that it is also the workaday language for certain state authorised adjudicators . |
| 7 | Maeve Binchy 's The Copper Beech ( Orion ) is a collection of linking stories which read as a whole ; it is also the launch title for Orion entering the mass market area . |
| 8 | The discussion is based on what the author calls the ‘ Boltzmann-Gibbs ’ entropy , but in the terminology used above it is just the Gibbs entropy . |
| 9 | Indeed , it is undoubtedly the Wolfenden Committee who were responsible for the generally high level of debate concerning reform of the law in this area in the following eight or nine years . |
| 10 | WELL , IF you want to go on strike , the place to do it is obviously the London borough of Barnet . |
| 11 | It is chiefly the noun metaphor which has caused philosophers and estheticians to worry so greatly about the relationship of these two terms and the basis on which they are compared . |
| 12 | In the case of glass the important defect is usually the surface crack , in the case of brittle crystals it is usually the surface step . |
| 13 | Whereas in the West it is generally the province of the privileged , in developing countries it is often the beating heart of resistance to oppression . |
| 14 | These signatures are more readily attributed to source regions within the continental lithosphere , and there are strong indications that it is often the mantle lithosphere that contributes isotopically ‘ enriched ’ ( low- 143 Nd/ 144 Nd ) material . |
| 15 | It is often the CD worker who elicits a response by being involved in some form of needs assessment and the partnership between community and professional is formed in the process . |
| 16 | It is mainly the interest rate . |
| 17 | When you transfer your hands from boom to mast , remember that it is always the back hand that leaves the boom first . |
| 18 | When such questions are raised it is always the kin family that people are thinking of . |
| 19 | Significantly , for Lukacs , it is precisely the material situation of the writer in relation to socialism that sets the socialist realist apart from the bourgeois critical realist . |
| 20 | It is merely the football programme . ) |
| 21 | erm there is basically , as you know , and as Queenie at the beginning , it is actually the County Council who is the highway authority and we are their agent . |
| 22 | X , as it is now the default operating environment on all Sun Sparc 10 systems and is the only operating environment available on Sun 's Sparcstation LC and LX and SuperSparc multiprocessor systems , the company notes . |
| 23 | There was no fire in the dining hall ( it is now the committee room and the adjoining waiting area ) . |
| 24 | Honeywell , which reckons that it is now the industry leader in design and development of integrated avionics systems — anyone that disagrees , do n't tell us , tell them — will manufacture an Electronic Library System incorporating a ruggedised avionics version of the new Macintosh Quadra 800 . |
| 25 | ( It is now the district manager 's office . ) |
| 26 | Yet in the National Heritage department , it is only the tourism funding , specifically to ETB , which , over the coming three years , is to be greatly reduced , while all other areas reflect at least modest growth . |
| 27 | There are innumerable aquatic snails available for the pool , but it is only the ramshorn type ( Fig. 16 ) that can be depended upon to restrict its appetite to undesirable algae . |
| 28 | It is assumed that it is only the field man who ‘ really knows ’ what is happening ‘ out there ’ . |
| 29 | Chris Young , Chelmsford : ‘ If you were to believe that people buy a record by The Smiths because they wish to change something , even if it is only the music industry , then you are being very naïve about things . |
| 30 | In the general problem , however , it is only the background region I that is taken to be flat , and regions II and III , as well as IV , are curved . |