Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [noun] [is] " in BNC.
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1 | if the return to Conservatism is to be something more than the transient apparition of a spectre from the past , and its voice in national affairs not merely to be a sepulchral warning against the dangers of rash courses , the Conservative leaders must bestir themselves to some purpose … [ the Conservative Party ] must be ready to meet the programme of the Labour Party not simply with a non-possumus but with an alternative which will in some measure satisfy certain of the needs which Labour is concerned to satisfy , and at the same time avoid the perils with which it insists Labour policy is beset . |
2 | A child who is continually told it has low status is likely to grow into a low-status adult . |
3 | It uses Advanced Micro 's patented programmable macrocell technology and offers up to 16 product terms per output . |
4 | And he told reporters before the meeting : ‘ I support the IRA 's right to engage in armed struggle — where it wages armed engagements is a matter for itself . ’ |
5 | I have been elaborating the point , made much earlier on , that one of the really basic features of human thinking as it affects social action is the polarization of " we " versus " they " . |
6 | ‘ It showed British football is behind the Germans ' in technique . |
7 | Amid talk of rebuilding and reorganising resources it appears suitable material is in short supply . |
8 | Innocence may be the first casualty of war , as the posters for the film boldly quoted , but it seems good taste is the first casualty in computer-game marketing . |
9 | ‘ This was blown out of the water by the Supreme Court in 1990 , when it said Irish unity is a constitutional imperative . |
10 | That it had paradisal origins is a simplistic assumption . |