Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [is] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it is electro-plated with silver it is called electro-plated nickel silver ( EPNS ) . |
| 2 | In future it is hoped that information will be posted at the nearest car parks , as well as at the crag , allowing for a change of plan before walking to the climbs ! |
| 3 | In effect it is conceded that society was in a state of flux , consisting not of four but of five estates , subject nevertheless to fundamental reservations , for the labouring poor are not adjudged worthy of an independent voice . |
| 4 | The National Government had been allotted a definite task , and on its completion it is understood that Parliament should be dissolved as soon as circumstances permit , and that each of the parties should be left free to place its policy before the electors for their approval . |
| 5 | What a pleasure it is to hear some of these pieces for the first time in clear digital sound ! |
| 6 | John Fordham on the Miles Davis session it 's taken four years to release and the week 's other albums Twisting , teasing trumpet Jazz . |
| 7 | Yes , you 'll go to the bottom do n't you , alright , so if it goes to the bottom it 's sinking OK ? |
| 8 | I now realize what a great honour it is to have this Presidential Chain bestowed on me and I trust that I will be able to uphold and fulfil my obligations as President , particularly when I reflect upon the contributions made by my predecessors . |
| 9 | Its sunless position is intentional , for in the summer months its purpose is to remain cool and in the winter it is kept warm by its thick coat of thatch . |
| 10 | It was a happy house , a house in the sun , but at the moment it is standing forlorn and empty because he is dead . |
| 11 | ‘ The only people who are are the politicians whose job it is to sort this crisis out . ’ |
| 12 | Certainly few people in the West , even the intelligence agencies whose job it is to monitor such dissidence , had much idea of the latent forces that this choice in the wilderness represented in Iran itself . |
| 13 | Even the Nato arms controllers meeting in Vienna , whose job it is to negotiate East-West reductions in conventional armed forces , can only pursue their objectives on the basis of confrontation between their alliance and the Warsaw Pact . |
| 14 | The maintainers are those people whose job it is to make sure that the functionality , performance , documentation and quality of the software are appropriate to its purpose . |
| 15 | This course is primarily designed to help CPRW branch committee members whose job it is to get local campaigning activities into the news . |
| 16 | He could even turn up as one of soccer 's infamous ‘ jobsworths , ’ the stony-faced commissionaires whose job it is to keep ticketless journalists in a state of blind panic . |
| 17 | But of course the minute you put a , slap a cover on this information , it begins to , to change and people die and new governments are elected and whatever , er so yes , we are , we have in our employ someone who 's sole job it is to read all the newspapers , er watch the T V , all the media and keep all the information up to date , so the , that 's a full time job really and they 're working on the data base day and night |
| 18 | So clueless and misguided are these sorry types — so lacking in insight , intent and , bloody hell , a sense of humour — that if a great comedy show ever makes it to TV List magazine it can only be DESPITE the pony-tails whose job it is to shepherd these things to a laff-hungry public . |
| 19 | The two were never in danger and were helped down the trail by the men whose job it is to protect all presidents and vice-presidents . |
| 20 | It arose in the context of the thinking of people whose job it is to think big . |
| 21 | At some point it is thought necessary to confine them to pushchairs , later to backpacks . |
| 22 | I have sat with her for hours spooning broth into her and a tedious business it is to make sure any of it goes down . |
| 23 | This is unusual in the Near Eastern religions , although Christians sometimes talk of Jesus as ‘ God ’ ( as in the words of Thomas after the Resurrection , ‘ My Lord and my God ’ — John 20:28 ) , and in the doctrine of the Trinity it is made clear that the Father , the Son and the Spirit are all ‘ God ’ ( as stated in the Athanasian Creed ) . |
| 24 | Of course the bigger clients are getting the message and do keep in touch but with the rest it 's proving hard work teasing out the issues and reassuring there 's value in it for them . |
| 25 | The size and price of Sharp 's range of pocket LCD TVs confirm what a nonsense it is to predict large panel screens to hang on the wall are ‘ just around the corner ’ . |
| 26 | In 1819 the Board of Kandyan Commissioners stated that this ‘ practice is sanctioned by such long usage that , until by some proclamation it is declared illegal , it might be deemed harsh to visit the act by punishment . ’ |
| 27 | For by insisting it is the only way to knowledge it is dismissing other ways as unimportant , irrelevant and probably misleading . |
| 28 | All those seeds and apples were V , virile , and X , extremely bitter to the taste — not to say inedible — because of all the insects in them , which , since , Ketone-Etone-Methyl-Tri-Di-Meta-post-Oxy-Chlorane had been banned , flourished alarmingly ; if there is one thing more off-putting than finding a maggot in your apple it is finding half a maggot in your apple . |
| 29 | In my local authority it is estimated that only 9 per cent . |
| 30 | For example it is hypothesised that disagreement over the budget is the most likely single cause of the breakdown of co-operative arrangements ; and that the operation of explicit ‘ codes of practice ’ governing inter-p[arty relationships is likely to reduce the tension and uncertainty inherent in hungness . |