Example sentences of "it is [verb] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is said that commercially-grown winter lettuce is sprayed More times than a Rolls Royce , which seems an excellent reason for growing your own organic winter salads . |
| 2 | A horse standing perfectly in the show ring , with its ears nicely pricked , may indicate that it is cross by pressing its lips tightly together , as if it is refusing some nasty-tasting medicine . |
| 3 | The company now says that it is producing some 20 million metres of VHS tape per month — enough to fill more than 100 000 cassettes . |
| 4 | The 13th reform were believed to be sufficient to allow locos to work over the bridge and it is understood that 37/4 's will not be allowed over . |
| 5 | Well I think we 'll have to re-look at the whole question of village envelopes in certain cases , where it is decided that low cost housing is desirable , and see if in some way , they can encourage the farmer to make land available so that he can make some money which he badly needs at the moment , as agriculture 's going through one of the biggest depressions it 's been through for years . |
| 6 | Firstly the criteria for the mean electorate size for a European parliamentary constituency has previously been used as a justification for ignoring the case for Cornwall , yet concessions have been made in other areas establishing such constituencies that do not meet the size requirement an that 's because it is accepted that European parliamentary constituencies should be created along the lines of natural communities , communities of identity and communities of interest . |
| 7 | But today it is providing many useful applications in the financial sector |
| 8 | And — in collaboration with AEA Petroleum Services — it is converting some selected microcomputer software to run on multiple workstations . ’ |
| 9 | Welcome though it is to see such friendly typecasting , we should hope that the opening up of broadcasting to more gay representation will allow for greater diversity . |
| 10 | It is ingesting many different types of foods , living and dead , plant and animal . |
| 11 | It is to suggest that sexual difficulty , or problems in the field of sexual relationship , should be looked out for more often by social workers and others concerned with them , and looked at more from the child 's own point of view . |
| 12 | Finally partnership activity will have to be funded adequately if it is to achieve much worthwhile . |
| 13 | So Chairman I offer in lieu of three point one , the formal recommendation an alternative recommendation which is as follows , it is recommended that further consultation take place with Norfolk County Council and Breckland District Council at |
| 14 | Chairman the , the amended recommendation I offer as follows , it is recommended that further consultation take place with Norfolk County Council and Brandon District Council at |
| 15 | No matter how unpleasant it is to damage another human being , fighting is sometimes still a vital part of self-preservation . |
| 16 | Darlington Wedding Cars operators have vanished from the firm 's Yarm Road premises and it is feared many engaged couples could find themselves stranded on their ceremony day . |
| 17 | It is striking that federal spending on research and development into energy was halved in the 1980s ; R&D into renewable energy alone fell from $700m in 1981 to $115m in 1989 . |
| 18 | While these books had probably disintegrated by Leapor 's time , it is striking that poor scholars might be taught Latin . |
| 19 | It is striking that Papinian ( if it is he ) emphasizes the value of the decision only in terms of its effect on the family expectations of father and children as to how mother will behave . |
| 20 | He explains how necessary it is to have these mental filters to exclude or devalue events which may be too disturbing . |
| 21 | I now realize what a great honour it is to have this Presidential Chain bestowed on me and I trust that I will be able to uphold and fulfil my obligations as President , particularly when I reflect upon the contributions made by my predecessors . |
| 22 | If it is to have any practical value a recording system must be concerned with measuring observable behaviour . |
| 23 | Applied linguistics in this sense must be practised by teachers too if it is to have any effective operational relevance at all . |
| 24 | ‘ The Disabled ’ is a non-disabled construction , a representational framework no more real than a hologram but which has to contain two properties if it is to have any cathartic meaning for society . |
| 25 | If a variable measured in the course of an experiment settles down with time , to a constant , or a maintained oscillation , it seems reasonable to assume that it is approaching some stable , maintained course that corresponds to an equilibrium or periodic solution |
| 26 | What I why I was emphasizing earlier on how important it is to get all this over on the telephone . |
| 27 | It is to provide those concerned in the treatment with a defence to a criminal charge of assault or battery or a civil claim for damages for trespass to the person . |
| 28 | Although it will show paintings by Larry Rivers , Alex Katz , Red Grooms , Frank Auerbach and RB Kitaj , it is featuring those Spanish and South American artists whom it represents . |
| 29 | It is to avoid that boxy look that skirts are rounded at the lower edge , especially if the skirt is formed of panels . |
| 30 | It is to surrender all purposeful hope of changing , through literature or any other means , the world in which one is bound to live . |