Example sentences of "it is [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gossip that Next Computer Inc might abandon its hardware business to focus on its NextStep object-oriented operating environment UX No 419 ) has proved all too valid and last week the company confirmed that it is to abandon manufacture of its workstations . |
| 2 | When a leader in the Independent accuses Freddie Mercury of being a bad example because of homosexual acts committed in strictly guarded privacy before he realised he was at risk , it is using science as a screen for unexamined prejudice . |
| 3 | And , as I hope to demonstrate from time to time in later chapters , it is as legitimate to utilize Lévi-Straussian notions where these seem appropriate and fruitful as it is to derive inspiration from Freud — without necessarily being a dogmatic , doctrinaire Freudian . |
| 4 | The department says that it is seeking advice from the Committee on safety of Medicines on B17 . |
| 5 | How easy it is to allow life to be swallowed up by the daily round and so to miss that pause to reflect and to take one 's bearings . |
| 6 | For southern observers , a good way to find it is to join Canopus to Rigel by an imaginary line ; this will cross Columba and Lepus . |
| 7 | It is condoning promotion of a drug which kills 110,000 people a year … it is , quite simply , unethical . ’ |
| 8 | It is arousing controversy within both LWT and ITV as independent television companies prepare for the fight to hold on to their franchises . |
| 9 | It is based north of Bolton , in the constituency of David Trippier , a DoE minister of state . |
| 10 | ‘ All metals expand when heated ’ will only be a legitimate generalization if the observations of expansion on which it is based range over a wide variety of conditions . |
| 11 | ‘ It is called Queen of my Heart … ’ |
| 12 | The International Telecommunications Satellite Organisation , Intelsat , owned by some 120 nations worldwide , is under such pressure to increase capacity that for the first time , it is to lease capacity on three satellites that it does not own . |
| 13 | That is ‘ No comment ’ , but it 's ‘ No comment ’ done in such a way that it is implying intelligence on the part of the audience , saying , ‘ Well , you realize , of course , that if I were to comment on this , you know , it would prejudice either the chances of the prisoner if we catch him or , you know , any possible clues and so on . ’ |
| 14 | One result of Barclays 's policy is the number of high-technology firms to which it is lending money under what it calls its business start loan scheme . |
| 15 | After a detailed survey a large area of stone was removed to the Dorset County Museum where it is given pride of place . |
| 16 | Hospice administrator Deidre Shaw said : ‘ Our shop is a most essential source of income and can only operate well if it is given support by the public . |
| 17 | It is given value by its users . |
| 18 | A typical gas instantaneous water heater will give a temperature rise of 50°C with a flow rate of around 6.5 litres/minute — so if it is taking water from the mains at 10°C , it will raise the temperature to 60°C . |
| 19 | It is taking place in France , Germany and the United States . |
| 20 | the other way of doing it is getting woman with bigger boobs |
| 21 | The board has lodged five complaints with the LEA and is questioning whether it is getting value for money . |
| 22 | But the charge that sterling policy was the main cause of the British predicament is more difficult to sustain , even if it is made part of a vicious circle of poor performance . |
| 23 | If you are stuck in a boring job , concentrate on the fact that it is providing money for your needs and your pleasures and that it gives you a measure of independence . |
| 24 | Once the gales have blown themselves out and the depressions have ‘ filled ’ or moved away , we usually get a spell of settled weather when things return to normal.The few days of settled weather allow me to spend some hours fishing offshore for ling and tusk which , as well as providing me with relaxation and sport , is satisfyingly justified in my own mind because it is providing food for the family during the winter to come . |
| 25 | If the book does have one central purpose it is to shed light upon the process of the changing system of higher education in Britain , and if it reaches one clear conclusion it is that both Oxford and Cambridge have performed admirably in recent years . |
| 26 | British Telecom says it is considering provision of local management services in conjunction with its portfolio of managed communications services once the new products are finished : it sees commercial products and services in early 1994 . |
| 27 | British Telecom says it is considering provision of local management services in conjunction with its portfolio of managed communications services once the new products are finished : it sees commercial products and services in early 1994 . |
| 28 | It is to take responsibility to ourselves for the way the world is . |
| 29 | Co-ordination , if it is to take place at all , is also most likely to be instigated by the clearinghouses ; but ideally it ought to take place between the library associations , if for no other reason than that they can provide financial support to arrange the necessary meetings of coordinating committees . |
| 30 | So , while the Government claims that it is targeting help on those in greatest need , it is simultaneously increasing the numbers caught , in the Government 's terminology , in a ‘ dependency culture ’ . |