Example sentences of "[that] it is [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Microsoft says that it is developing tools which will enable C and C++ developers building Windows-based applications to target the Macintosh . |
| 2 | If New Yorkers notice it at all , few have any idea that it is 1,500 years old , and many would be deeply shocked if they knew , reckoning that anything over 20 years old must be dirty and out of date . |
| 3 | It 's something both they and lesbians have always been blamed for , despite the now well-publicized fact that it is heterosexual men who commit by far the most assaults on boys , as well as girls . |
| 4 | We have all had our share of fruitless journeys to find our dream home , set amid magnificent rolling countryside , only to find that it is 200 yards from the noisy A12 , hemmed in by an ugly industrial building , with a pungent smell of pigs wafting across the garden . |
| 5 | It strikes me that it is young people who are most at risk and who have most to lose . |
| 6 | Aston Villa manager Ron Atkinson last night heightened the tension surrounding today 's Premier League match of the day by recalling that it is six years to the day since Manchester United sacked him . |
| 7 | Although haggling is common in countries such as India , it is a mistake to assume that it is standard practice throughout the world . |
| 8 | A hotel advertises that it is 100 yards from the beach and all rooms have a sea view . |
| 9 | The point is that it is middle management who spoil and destroy this potential relationship . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | With Kiesling he argues that it is that femininity signifies inferiority to Thomas , and not femininity as such , which makes a woman unsuitable . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The objection to the claim is that it is mere assertion or , more kindly , an act of faith . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | Every now and then I have to kick myself to realise that it is 10 Jan. & everything must be very bleak in Lancaster . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The report does not insist that it is one man who has committed all the offences , but the implication is that is the case . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He knew himself that it is one thing to get out of prison , another really to escape it . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | A two year old car which is essential for the business — The fact that it is essential for the business would seem to rule out NRV whilst the fact that it is two years old would suggest that original cost is inappropriate . |
| 28 | Thus the first of Turan 's lists notes that it is nine years since the death of " sultan al- " ulema Muhammad Shah Pasha , Mevlana Shams al-Din Fenari-oglu " ( which therefore would have occurred in 840 ) , while the lists given by Menage record the death of " sultan al- " ulema Muhammad Shah Pasha " in 839 . |
| 29 | Talk about safer sex with your partner , or make it clear that it is safer sex you want by your actions . |
| 30 | 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 . |