Example sentences of "it is [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | K has literally just rung over the moon that I had fixed this as her mother is very fond of David and has known him for years — and it is fitting that widow of first Prof of CEGS ( as above ) be included — her dad built up the department enormously and I knew him through European seminars etc via Law Society with and others including who is a Heriot Row neighbour . |
| 2 | For example it is hypothesised that disagreement over the budget is the most likely single cause of the breakdown of co-operative arrangements ; and that the operation of explicit ‘ codes of practice ’ governing inter-p[arty relationships is likely to reduce the tension and uncertainty inherent in hungness . |
| 3 | In the last chapter , I discussed the kinds of things the brain must be doing if it is to generate observed behaviour . |
| 4 | And although Jesus himself remains to a significant degree elusive , it is as possible to deduce plausible information about him as it is to deduce such information about Arthur , or Robin Hood . |
| 5 | ‘ The need for proof is essential because many organisations fail to recognise bullying , even when it is causing serious disruption within their workforce . |
| 6 | As far as he knows Women in Love has not been adapted for the stage before , but already it is causing much interest from other theatres and companies . |
| 7 | Does he agree that steps must be taken to persuade the Turkish authorities to give such compensation , because it is causing great hardship ? |
| 8 | The Bulgarian government has decided to suspend production at the country 's biggest lead plant for several months because it is causing severe pollution to nearby agricultural land . |
| 9 | Certainly few people in the West , even the intelligence agencies whose job it is to monitor such dissidence , had much idea of the latent forces that this choice in the wilderness represented in Iran itself . |
| 10 | It is intended that care will be taken to ensure that important relics such as the wheels are retained . |
| 11 | It is intended that yarn for hard twist carpets will form the bulk of production in the future months . |
| 12 | 3.3 In making detailed arrangements for phasing of the transition , it is intended that implementation will be arranged in such a way that all centres offering a particular course will transfer to the new system in the same year . |
| 13 | It is intended that priority then will be given to obtaining planning consent for this Section . |
| 14 | It is said that Sun 's SunSelect , the unit that picked up WABI when it acquired Norwood , Massachusetts-based Praxsys Technologies Inc , has already received a letter from Microsoft complaining that WABI violates its intellectual property rights . |
| 15 | It is called deoxyribonucleic acid , or DNA for short . |
| 16 | It is called Long Life . |
| 17 | It is called Fifth Street , and where it meets Blackhills Road is Horden Conservative Club . |
| 18 | When it is electro-plated with silver it is called electro-plated nickel silver ( EPNS ) . |
| 19 | The Indian government has announced that it is to refuse further World Bank funding for the highly controversial Narmada Dam project [ see EDs 61 ; 64 ] . |
| 20 | It is presumed that ivalon injected to plug the liver biopsy leaked intraperitoneally and caused the foreign body reaction seen . |
| 21 | When the crack is very shallow it is consuming more energy as surface energy than it is releasing as relaxed strain energy and therefore the conditions are energetically unfavourable for it to propagate . |
| 22 | Whilst TechDoc is certainly one of the older and more established of these compartments it is undergoing rapid change as the vendors break away from the dedicated hardware platforms of their recent past . |
| 23 | The disclosures come at a time when there are three known bids by senior civil servants to buy out part of the Crown Suppliers when it is privatised next year . |
| 24 | In effect it is conceded that society was in a state of flux , consisting not of four but of five estates , subject nevertheless to fundamental reservations , for the labouring poor are not adjudged worthy of an independent voice . |
| 25 | There is the special delight Britons have in gossip , especially when it is hinted that politics are spiced with sex . |
| 26 | Where liability is admitted , or it is acknowledged that liability is likely to be established , then it may be sensible to try and agree an interim payment because it will probably be possible to secure a lower sum in interim damages than would be awarded by the Court if matters were so to proceed . |
| 27 | Public Health Nursing is still to a large extent task-oriented and the findings in a survey of the work load of the Public Health Nurse in Ireland in 1986 showed that only a small percentage of time ( 0.2% ) was spent directly on health education , although it is acknowledged that health promotion is a component of tasks and policy in all aspects of their role . |
| 28 | In addition , wood will deteriorate and eventually rot unless it is given regular maintenance . |
| 29 | However , it is given greater symmetry and therefore becomes a fairer competition for the contestants . |
| 30 | It is as well to appreciate that a body in free fall from a fixed starting event will follow different geodesics if it is given different starting velocities . |