Example sentences of "[vb base] it is [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Available evidence confirms sorry first of all the increase in the provision of affordable dwellings identified by this monitoring survey er is not being maintained , so there is a national problem South East regional problem field and in our own er monitoring report on housing development and population change we say four point seven two available evidence confirms the existence of a social housing problem in West Sussex and surveys studies suggest it is significant and that table on page forty items , gives you the precise er application position erm it is I think erm just . |
| 2 | To discover arbitrage possibilities in the FT-SE 100 index it is necessary to keep track of the prices of the 100 shares in the index i.e. £S , as well as the present value of the expected dividends before delivery for each of these 100 shares , i.e. £D , for each of the three available delivery dates . |
| 3 | I expect it is warmer than |
| 4 | ‘ If Britain is going to produce a Wimbledon Champion it is vital that young school children are continually attracted to tennis at an early age , ’ said Durie . |
| 5 | The tone of your information and the authority with which you report it is important . |
| 6 | They say it is incorrect , ’ says Bookseller Association director Tim Godfray . |
| 7 | Tories say it is essential to win the battle against inflation if they are to reduce the dole queues . |
| 8 | The people who designed the drill say it is capable of drilling for oil in almost any direction , and will penetrate deposits that today 's drills can not reach . |
| 9 | Some teachers say it is useful to have a pact with someone else , preferably another teacher , which allows you to complain in the most dreadful and unreasonable way to each other , in turn , for a fixed period of time like ten minutes . |
| 10 | If the conditions in which a lineage of animals lives remain constant ; say it is dry and hot and has been so without a break for 100 generations , evolution in that lineage is likely to come to a halt , at least as far as adaptations to temperature and humidity are concerned . |
| 11 | We say it is unclear why free phones should only be issued for incoming and outgoing calls and for nine nine nine calls . |
| 12 | A difficult route to grade , and some say it is nearer E3 than E2 . |
| 13 | say it is sad ? |
| 14 | Many China-watchers say it is impossible to be as specific as that . |
| 15 | Some say it is good for the Prime Minister to mix with the crowd and others that for a Prime Minister it is less than dignified . |
| 16 | For one thing , the attitudinist view escapes an objection to subjectivism made by Moore that if when I say an action is bad I report my negative feelings towards it , and when you say it is good you report your positive feelings towards it , then there is no disagreement between us ( since we will probably both agree that the other has the feelings he reports ) which Moore thought an absurdity . |
| 17 | They say it is good news and they will shop where its cheaper . |
| 18 | Senior sources say it is appropriate for Whitbread to move away from being a family-dominated group , saddled with an arcane share structure , in 1992 , its 250th anniversary . |
| 19 | It is not too much to say that the quoted argument has the strength of this : We say it is probable that the spoon is under the napkin ; the relation of " being under " is therefore a relation of probability . |
| 20 | Police say it is possible the driver may not realise an accident has happened . |
| 21 | People in a bombed-out residential quarter by the Karun river say it is better than living under canvas , although the nearest tap is 500 metres away . |
| 22 | When people set off in a boat to prove whether the Earth was round , they did not fall off so that proves that the Earth is flat , but people just say it is round . |
| 23 | Some say it is 0.5 microgram per cubic metre . |
| 24 | Officers interviewed the couple , in their early 30s , but say it is unlikely either will press charges following the 2am bust-up . |
| 25 | Acquaintances say it is hard to believe the same charming woman they knew is now a convicted IRA terrorist . |
| 26 | They say it is unjust for the publicans and bad for the pubs . |
| 27 | The property of being whiter is an obvious example , for one thing is compared with another when we say it is whiter than the other . |
| 28 | Erm and the difference in appraisal between the groups of people that knew about the speaker before and those that did n't know anything , they say it is important to the similarity attraction . |
| 29 | ‘ You say it is urgent , a matter of life or death for me . ’ |
| 30 | Professor Alan Smithers and Pamela Robinson , of Manchester University , say it is vital for Britain 's economic future that more young people are persuaded to stay at school after 16 . |