Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [adj] [noun] [be] " 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 adds that inflation is likely to be higher and domestic demand slower than it predicted in its last report six months ago . |
| 4 | It depends some students are good and some students are n't . |
| 5 | It uses Advanced Micro 's patented programmable macrocell technology and offers up to 16 product terms per output . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | It envisages those visits being as varied as the need — from the person wanting a four-month placement to work with elderly people in Poland or an adoption agency in Jamaica , to someone who is planning a two-week holiday in California who wants to take off a couple of days to spend them visiting the local branch of the US National Association of Social Workers . |
| 8 | It says unlicensed minicabs are the most dangerous form of public transport . |
| 9 | It says young people are the future and unless we invest in them , that future looks bleak . |
| 10 | Now the organisation which owns it says more room is needed to accomodate all the visitors . |
| 11 | It sees that marriage is between two unique persons , whose personhood is acknowledged to come from God . |
| 12 | 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 " . |
| 13 | So it appears that completion was around that time although the date is not er , is not certain . |
| 14 | Amid talk of rebuilding and reorganising resources it appears suitable material is in short supply . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | However , it seems that leave is refused for between a quarter and a third of all AJRs , and this might suggest that the leave requirement is performing some other function such as keeping the number of pending AJRs down so that the delay between the granting of leave and the hearing is not too great . |
| 17 | Instead , it seems that money is to be spent in an almost futile attempt to attract to the bay , at a time of recession , companies and start-up projects that , by rights , should be located elsewhere . |
| 18 | In the light of this it seems that severance is beneficial in that it stops one party acquiring the whole property in the event of the other 's death , but the actual shares of the parties would have to await determination by the Court ( or agreement ) . |
| 19 | It seems that androgyny is psychologically and socially valuable for women ( Jones et al . |
| 20 | Now , after experiment rather than speculation , it seems that stabilimenta are really early warning landmarks for birds . |
| 21 | In this case , it seems that Creole is being used , perhaps with its " jocular " symbolic value , to comment on the baby and its " cute " activities . |
| 22 | It seems that education is not even essential to happiness . |
| 23 | Looking back from the late 1980s it seems that decentralization was not a clean break , nor was it a temporary aberration , since elements of both continue to exist side by side in the British settlement system . |
| 24 | Meggitt contrasts the ‘ ritualised ’ literacy supposedly apparent in Melanesian politico-religious movements with a model of what literacy ‘ really ’ is in a way that obviously owes much to Goody : ‘ It seems that writing was rarely treated as a straightforward technique of secular action , one whose prime values is repeated and surrogate communication of unambiguous meanings in a variety of situations ’ ( 1968 , p. 302 ) . |
| 25 | I was given some advice about you — advice which I took against my better judgement , but it seems that advice was wrong . " |
| 26 | Finally , it seems that attempt are being made in the United Kingdom , Flanders , and the Netherlands to create a more positive image and role for residential care ( see National Institute of Social Work , 1988 ) . |
| 27 | From the bidding so far it seems that East is sitting over North with a strong and long diamond holding . |
| 28 | It is important not to be inflexible when looking at housing options , although sometimes it seems that dogma is of overriding importance to staff and , indeed , more important than finding solutions which suit individuals . |
| 29 | It seems that symmetry is a useful means of combating a dominant force , such as gravity . |
| 30 | At the moment it seems that Labour is poised to pick up a good swathe of its targets — but not , yet , quite enough of them to put Mr Kinnock safely into Downing Street . |