Example sentences of "it is [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ICI 's catalysts are used extensively in the production of ammonia , hydrogen and methanol , although it is developing markets in refining petrochemicals and organic synthesis . |
| 2 | This results primarily from the greater longevity of women compared with men ; life expectancy at birth is 78 years for women and 72 years for men , while at 65 it is 17 years for women and 16 years for men . |
| 3 | IT is twelve years since the last Stratford Coriolanus : an absurd neglect of Shakespeare 's best political play . |
| 4 | In practice this boils down to the governments being saddled with the bulk of the foreign hard currency debts , while it is private individuals in those same countries who hold most of the hard-currency assets . |
| 5 | Now it is eight hours by bus along a narrow asphalt road . |
| 6 | It is specific conditions like these , and others such as arthritis , diabetes , blindness or deafness , which lead some older people to need extra help . |
| 7 | Firstly , although referral patterns will reflect individual practice , continued use of dilatation and curettage by gynaecologists reinforces the notion for general practitioners and patients that it is appropriate treatment for menstrual irregularity in women under 40 . |
| 8 | There is no space to go into detail about the ding-dong and the relevance of that remark , but it is gentlemanly mayhem at its best and I wish I had seen the first encounters between the CSIRO and its critic , who , I infer , also had a go at the research on skeleton weed . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | Babies are born with a sense of fairness , justice , morality , and a great capacity for kindness and forbearance , and it is sheer disappointment in the character and nature of parent and world that changes this eager infant into a murderous teenager . |
| 11 | It is sheer dogma by the Labour party to reject them out of hand without even considering individual applications . |
| 12 | She feels it is good experience for her children too . |
| 13 | I have been preaching a few times and invitations are coming in , so it is good experience for me . |
| 14 | While it is not necessary to prove the employer knew of any defect it is good evidence for the prosecution if he admits he did . |
| 15 | Fundamentally , the reason why it is good policy for us to try to explain biological phenomena in terms of gene advantage is that genes are replicators . |
| 16 | It is good advice for there is no substitute for the sort of general information that can be gathered in this way . |
| 17 | A further useful beginning to identifying needs is the long article on the History of Education in the Encyclopaedia Britannica ; whilst much of this is not relevant directly to the study of local history , it is good background to the history of the English national systems of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries . |
| 18 | It is good news for the club and the fans , ’ Edwards said yesterday . |
| 19 | It is good news for his firm , Chemical Discoveries ; ‘ But perhaps more importantly it will enhance our ambitions for innovating large-scale land reclamation projects to benefit underdeveloped countries . |
| 20 | But it is good news for the insurance fraternity : the US government , which owns the satellite , did not bother to take out insurance on it . |
| 21 | Clearly it is good news for the people of Rugby and especially for patients attending St. Cross hospital . |
| 22 | It is good news for jobs and it is good news for the town . |
| 23 | It is good news for jobs and it is good news for the town . |
| 24 | It is good news for our workforce , clients and sub-contractors . ’ |
| 25 | Eochaid said , ‘ It is good news from Fife . |
| 26 | It is good practice for a trainee to be given the opportunity to work in more than one department to broaden his experience . |
| 27 | It is good practice for the vendor to keep an index and central store of all documents sent in response to the information questionnaire . |
| 28 | But it is good practice for the tenant 's adviser to ensure that a right of entry is expressly conditional on the landlord making good any damage caused by his entry . |
| 29 | If a form HO/RT/1 is issues and the driver elects to produce the document at a distant police station it is good practice to also request the suspected driver to produce his registration document at the same time . |
| 30 | It is good practice in any event to use a colour that is specific to manual detergents . |