Example sentences of "[that] it is [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although haggling is common in countries such as India , it is a mistake to assume that it is standard practice throughout the world . |
| 2 | The point is that it is middle management who spoil and destroy this potential relationship . |
| 3 | Over two thousand organisations receive it , your initial response has been very encouraging , and many people saying within the sector , that it is essential reading . |
| 4 | The referral form is physically passed to the social worker or social work assistant in the allocation process , indicating that it is that person 's responsibility to initiate action on behalf of that client . |
| 5 | He defined shared values in the 1980s in the broadest sense , But I maintain not only that it is valid to speak about shared values in that sense , but also that it is that commonality that defines us as a society . |
| 6 | With Kiesling he argues that it is that femininity signifies inferiority to Thomas , and not femininity as such , which makes a woman unsuitable . |
| 7 | What makes The Rape so durably haunting is not its ( rather banal ) conceit of a woman viewed literally as a sex object , but the fact that it is that woman with that neck and that terrifying and terrified hair . |
| 8 | The objection to the claim is that it is mere assertion or , more kindly , an act of faith . |
| 9 | Surely the Secretary of State agrees that it is economic madness to switch electricity generation from coal to gas , close scores of collieries and throw thousands of miners on to the dole ? |
| 10 | Is the Minsiter aware that most people in north-west England , including the Railway Industry Association , believe that it is economic madness to open the channel tunnel without first providing a proper linkage between the north-west and the channel tunnel ? |
| 11 | Does the Prime Minister agree with the proposition that it is entirely sensible for a Government to borrow prudently in order to fund capital investment to build economic recovery but that it is sheer folly for a Government to borrow in order to buy votes for an election ? |
| 12 | Does he further agree that it is sheer hypocrisy to oppose privatisation in principle and to promise more nationalisation , yet to claim that there will still be privatisation proceeds to spend , as did a Labour Front-Bench Treasury spokesperson this morning ? |
| 13 | There are many of us who feel that it is sheer wilfulness if one assumes that there will be no contingency in the course of the year that needs to be budget . |
| 14 | The report does not insist that it is one man who has committed all the offences , but the implication is that is the case . |
| 15 | Finally , however , it has to be conceded that it is one thing to articulate a right of tax-diversion or participation in policy-making , and quite another to secure legal recognition for such a right . |
| 16 | He knew himself that it is one thing to get out of prison , another really to escape it . |
| 17 | I merely hope that I will not be a Charles talking about the fire cover again for today and er perhaps in future times for the simple reason that it is one thing to make a budget , it is one thing to do a . |
| 18 | Pinnacle-1 has only half as much first-level instruction cache as SuperSparc and the lack of an on-chip data cache means that it is one cycle slower on every load or store . ’ |
| 19 | Talk about safer sex with your partner , or make it clear that it is safer sex you want by your actions . |
| 20 | When you look more closely at this apparently innocent use of words , it is easy to see that it is all part of a very carefully engineered process . |
| 21 | On a fast , gusty launch a wooden glider will treat you to a series of creaks and groans , and occasionally bangs , which are alarming until you realize that it is all pretence and that the structure is not in the least danger of breaking up . |
| 22 | Then there is toughened glass , which is homogeneous in the sense that it is all glass , but the outside , which is susceptible to cracks , is put into compression at the expense of a tension in the protected middle . |
| 23 | The most damaging effect of the Education Reform Act would be if it snuffed out teachers ' belief that it is worthwhile thinking and talking about what they are doing . |
| 24 | Before 1981 the authorities concentrated on a whole range of liquid assets and on broad measures of money supply , like M3 : the argument being that it is broad liquidity that determines credit creation and broad measures of money that influence aggregate demand . |
| 25 | Let us admit that good taste and proper judgement have to be worked out slowly and painfully and personally , and that it is each man for himself . |
| 26 | I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary on taking action against death riders — I agree with those who have already said that that is a much better way to describe these offenders who are not joyriders — and others who think that it is good fun to take somebody 's car and drive it dangerously , thereby damaging property and sometimes killing people , thus causing appalling misery to those whose lives may be wrecked in the process . |
| 27 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is good news that , even in the teeth of an international recession , the Government have achieved reductions in interest rates , which means that the family man with an average , typical mortgage of £30,000 pays £100 a month less ? |
| 28 | Steel and textiles are examples , though the government would reply that it is good marketing policy to renovate machinery , improve productivity and quality . |
| 29 | Communism is the left foot of socialism , and Fascism is the right foot , using socialism in the sense that it is total regimentation and control by the state . |
| 30 | Three other LEDs are used to set up the operating status , arranged in a horizontal ‘ traffic light ’ formation : red indicates that the input signal is below the Threshold level , yellow that it has reached Threshold , and the green that it is above Threshold . |