Example sentences of "it is [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But again , what is often left out of such accounts of the unconscious , even as it is invoked as the prime destabilizer , is the importance of the perversions in precisely this respect : Freud insisted that what is operative from within the unconscious , producing this very instability , is repressed perversion . |
| 2 | It is a Germanic breed , known for the production of Munster cheese , though its milk yields are rather low , averaging only 2,500kg at 3.7 per cent butterfat , and it is related to the Black Forest cattle of Germany . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , these arrangements have been subjected to considerable criticism , although much of it is related to the high-rise building , difficulty of supervising children , industrialised building materials and the other , now familiar , complaints about such brutal townscapes . |
| 4 | Today it is reached by the main road , up the valley of the Petite Nive , through Arnéguy , which is the French frontier post , to the first Spanish village of Valcarlos and then Roncesvalles or , in its more familiar French form , Roncevaux . |
| 5 | Once it is determined that a particular exclusion clause is not invalidated under fiduciary law , it is then necessary to consider whether it is affected by the common law and statutory restrictions on exclusion clauses generally . |
| 6 | The ultimate in this sphere is to reach a state of ‘ Nirvana ’ — a state of ‘ passionless peace ’ as it is defined in the late Mr. Jim McCormick 's booklet ‘ What ever Christian should know about Hinduism and Yoga ’ . |
| 7 | But even the radical orthodoxy of Freire himself — at least as it is expressed in the celebrated book Pedagogy of the Oppressed — has recently been challenged . |
| 8 | Titled the Leopoldo Cicognara Conference , it is named after the eary nineteenth-century Venetian ( d. 1834 ) who compiled the first bibliography of art-historical literature . |
| 9 | But even if it is created by the new Warhol , will such explicit portraiture sell ? |
| 10 | Its name is a curious comment since it is situated beside the back garden of the Presidential palace , and boasts only one train a day . |
| 11 | It is situated on the Eastern outskirts of a large industrial city , with a fairly high level of children from different ethnic origins . |
| 12 | It is situated in the small highland village of Carrbridge and surrounded by beautiful countryside of sweet-smelling pine trees , dark moorland and mountain peaks . |
| 13 | It is situated in the small town of Melrose , which nestles comfortably between the Eildon Hills and the silvery River Tweed in the beautiful rolling countryside of the Scottish Borders . |
| 14 | It is situated in the picturesque surroundings of Cosmeston Lakes Country Park , near Penarth and is only 15 minutes by car from the centre of Cardiff . |
| 15 | It is situated in the charming old spa town of Moffat , a recent winner of both the ‘ Best Kept Village ’ and the ‘ Scotland in Bloom ’ awards . |
| 16 | It is situated in the main hospital corridor one full day a week . |
| 17 | It sets up an ideal world of nature , which is nevertheless represented as attainable reality ( to use a formula of Schiller 's ) In other words , it is constructed on the false premise that man is archetypally good and naturally artistic ( witness the absurd convention of the eternally virtuous hero forever bursting effortlessly into song ) . |
| 18 | But for the animal there is no escape ; it is condemned to the natural expressions in perpetuity , and the language-game we use of it is appropriately minimal . |
| 19 | It is diverted to the alien nest where it drops into the cuckoo 's mouth the food that had been destined for its own young . |
| 20 | First of all the LIFESPAN Manager must find out which LIFESPAN users , in addition to himself , wish to access LIFESPAN information once it is transferred to the selected database . |
| 21 | But when it is transferred to the printed page , where it is read and not heard , all the clues necessary for following the exchange have to be extracted from other sources in the text . |
| 22 | In D. microlepis , it is , to the best of my knowledge , always complete whereas in D. quadrifasciatus it is broken around the dorsal line with a more pronounced blotch terminating the upper length of the bar , beginning again immediately under the operculum around the pectoral fins . |
| 23 | A host state may restrict the activities of a financial institution as far as it is justified by the general good . |
| 24 | It is explained by the slow growth of GDP in the UK ; consequently , comparisons of GDP per head place Britain in a very lowly position . |
| 25 | ‘ It is recognised by the Prime Minister that the recovery will initially be slow and patchy … in time , it should give rise to sustainable economic growth and the creation of new jobs . ’ |
| 26 | As an archive it is recognised by the Public Records Act 1958 . |
| 27 | Although the EC has signed association agreements with these countries , it is prevented by the political need to protect its own industries from allowing imports of these commodities on the scale that would be possible . |
| 28 | When it is injected into the human body , it disperses throughout the living tissue , until it is removed by normal functions . |
| 29 | But the spirit is immortal and will recover its powers when it is freed from the physical brain . |
| 30 | It is calculated on the original cost of the assets at the following rates : |