Example sentences of "it is [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | is the straightforward transaction reflecting cash flowing out of the authority ( assuming it is external loan repayment ) to repay loans . |
| 2 | It is good mining practice that if one is to work all the mine that has already been developed — and £60 billion has been spent in its development — one does not work it in the advance , but in the retreat . |
| 3 | It is good management practice that any change of policy should itself be assessed : the process should help to decide whether LMS can take the credit for any improvements that occur . |
| 4 | Steel and textiles are examples , though the government would reply that it is good marketing policy to renovate machinery , improve productivity and quality . |
| 5 | It is joyous dance anthems like her recent hits Everybody 's Free ( To Feel Good ) and Faith ( in the Power of Love ) that are the true '90s successors to the spirit of all those '60s Motown pop classics . |
| 6 | The company said : ‘ The traditionally stronger second half has started well and it is anticipated cash flow for the full year will exceed capital requirements . ’ |
| 7 | It is unlike East London , where over the last ten or twenty years the heart has been torn out of manufacturing industry in the docks and with it has gone traditional working-class organisation . |
| 8 | It is pointless allocating hours of teaching to irrelevant material . |
| 9 | It is easy to produce accurate pulses at very high speed yet it is 1 second pulses which are needed . |
| 10 | It is hot fuchsia pink and brand spanking new . |
| 11 | It is 18 percentage points behind the Liberal-National coalition . |
| 12 | It is fruitless asking patients if their injection sites are satisfactory , as they invariably say that they are ; they come to regard the abnormal as normal . |
| 13 | At this point a word of warning should be included : it is little use spending days/weeks describing and analysing one thin section if you are not sure whether this section is representative of the sedimentary sequence you are evaluating . |
| 14 | McNamara told the press bluntly : ‘ It is Labour Party policy to achieve a united Ireland by consent and , therefore , it would be foolish to create a further obstacle . |
| 15 | Perhaps more important , given that it is Labour party policy , what impact would that have on the price of electricity for consumers ? |
| 16 | It is encouraging business investments from abroad and private enterprise is beginning to take off . |
| 17 | Police are investigating an incident in which it is alleged leisure assistant Alan Deaton , 19 was assaulted during a roller disco at York 's Barbican Centre . |
| 18 | It is accepted trade practice that staff do not use the bar facilities of the hotel at which they work . |
| 19 | I will continue Mr Mayor that it is not meanness it is practical caring Conservative policy to ensure that this happens . |
| 20 | So it is worthwhile finding cleaning materials that are phosphate free . |
| 21 | FOLLOWING the recent decision to lift the ban on those cricketers who toured South Africa 2½ years ago , I find myself wondering whether it is worthwhile making laws and regulations at all . |
| 22 | When a company decides to sell to a specific target market , it is employing market segmentation . |
| 23 | It is best hat time in the ballroom of Buckingham Palace . |
| 24 | Many of us become hot under the collar over local issues , whether it is poor transport services , an objection to the proposed siting of an amusement arcade opposite where we live , or the lack of sports and other social facilities . |
| 25 | It is all good quality and every piece carries a special seal to prove it is genuine Madeiran embroidery . |
| 26 | ‘ It is not my window , it is that good-for-nothing Sunil 's window . ’ |
| 27 | When she had finished she said to Piers , to hide her confusion , ‘ I — I always think how odd it is that turtle soup does n't taste of turtle . ’ |
| 28 | Hence , the smaller the amount of equity the more likely it is that debt holders may have to bear some part of any losses . |
| 29 | there are advantages erm and quite honestly if erm er the way I put it is that salary company car and BUPA and all that sort of thing |
| 30 | IF THERE is one political lesson which recent events have underlined in Africa , South East Asia and Latin America , it is that peasant armies waging guerilla wars all end up committing the same sort of brutalities , whatever the flag they fight under . |