Example sentences of "it is the [adj] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the first time crews outside London have decided to cut themselves off from controllers and to accept only those calls put through by the police , the fire service , GPs , hospitals and the public . |
| 2 | It is the first time troops have been brought in during an industrial dispute since 1978 . |
| 3 | It is the first time troops have been brought in during a dispute since 1978 . |
| 4 | This enterprising tour should be well worth following as it is the first time cricketers of this age from South Africa have toured in England . |
| 5 | Microport thinks it is the first Unix Labs licensee to make the compiler available in shrinkwrapped form . |
| 6 | I suppose it is the long term effects which need this particularly study . |
| 7 | It is the lower-level sampling units that are of interest . |
| 8 | Under ‘ capital expenditure ’ , the situation is reversed as it is the Regional Health Authorities who are responsible for planning , designing and building the major capital schemes . |
| 9 | It is the ongoing maintenance requirements which will be most scrutinised by the environmental health officer , and in many cases , it only takes a dirty grease filter system dripping onto the food cooking surfaces to alert the authorities . |
| 10 | It is the excellent wear characteristics of alumina which are the principal advantage in artificial hip systems . |
| 11 | It is the national insurance contributions that have become the second largest element , with 17 per cent of the total . |
| 12 | Wherever this national approach is taken it is the national library associations that are usually involved ; for example , in the USA the American Library Association through its Public Information Office generates a large quantity of various types of materials , produced in massive numbers and of a high professional ( artistic etc ) calibre . |
| 13 | Their role has been structural in the sense that it is the social security rules , rather than personal failure or character defect , that are the relevant factor to be considered . |
| 14 | It is the heavy brass diamonds upon my window , the security grilles ; when did I put them there ? |
| 15 | The error response in the Gloucester-Holyhead question is of interest because it is the top band pupils who are most likely to treat the obliquely placed town names as arrows pointing in the directions of the required figures . |
| 16 | There is evidence to suggest that the operation of vagotomy changes the ratio of primary and secondary bile acids found in the gall bladder and that it is the secondary bile acids that are carcinogenic . |
| 17 | It is the smaller protest parties , such as the Greens , who have benefited . |
| 18 | It is the local Battalion Ops Room . |
| 19 | And of these it is the small-to-medium family cars that sell in the greatest numbers . |