Example sentences of "it is [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | is the straightforward transaction reflecting cash flowing out of the authority ( assuming it is external loan repayment ) to repay loans . |
| 2 | Toshiba Corp has been showing off the robotics work it is engaged on at its research centre , where it has a number of projects that are or have grown out of government-sponsored projects : it is developing eyes 2mm to 3mm in diameter for a micromachine for use in inspecting pipes in nuclear power stations , and also a software-controlled self-mobile robot for use in space where not all astronauts can be expected to be robot experts . |
| 3 | The resulting mixture is fermented until it is twelve percent alcohol , then watered down , filtered to remove cloudiness , dyed and carbonated . |
| 4 | If the change is exothermic T s will exceed T r for a short period , but if it is endothermic T s will temporarily lag behind T r . |
| 5 | It is eight minutes walk from the resort centre , and a ten minute stroll from the nearest bathing area . |
| 6 | It is good mining practice that if one is to work all the mine that has already been developed — and £60 billion has been spent in its development — one does not work it in the advance , but in the retreat . |
| 7 | It is good management practice that any change of policy should itself be assessed : the process should help to decide whether LMS can take the credit for any improvements that occur . |
| 8 | It is good staff development to ask a more junior member of staff to carry out tasks normally associated with more senior positions . |
| 9 | Steel and textiles are examples , though the government would reply that it is good marketing policy to renovate machinery , improve productivity and quality . |
| 10 | But it but it is typical M E symptom . |
| 11 | When votes are counted under the proportional representation system , it is probable Fianna Fail will have to seek an alliance with another party to retain office . |
| 12 | It is joyous dance anthems like her recent hits Everybody 's Free ( To Feel Good ) and Faith ( in the Power of Love ) that are the true '90s successors to the spirit of all those '60s Motown pop classics . |
| 13 | The company said : ‘ The traditionally stronger second half has started well and it is anticipated cash flow for the full year will exceed capital requirements . ’ |
| 14 | It is unlike East London , where over the last ten or twenty years the heart has been torn out of manufacturing industry in the docks and with it has gone traditional working-class organisation . |
| 15 | We 're actually trying to let people have fun while they 're doing this , instead of maybe hectoring them erm we stand on enough picket lines as it is outside D I Y stores , so they 're probably fed up with seeing us there . |
| 16 | It is pointless allocating hours of teaching to irrelevant material . |
| 17 | It is easy to produce accurate pulses at very high speed yet it is 1 second pulses which are needed . |
| 18 | It is hot fuchsia pink and brand spanking new . |
| 19 | This is a salutary warning , for it is said Mount Kenya claims as many as half the cases of pulmonary oedema in the world each year . |
| 20 | It is 18 percentage points behind the Liberal-National coalition . |
| 21 | It is fruitless asking patients if their injection sites are satisfactory , as they invariably say that they are ; they come to regard the abnormal as normal . |
| 22 | At this point a word of warning should be included : it is little use spending days/weeks describing and analysing one thin section if you are not sure whether this section is representative of the sedimentary sequence you are evaluating . |
| 23 | McNamara told the press bluntly : ‘ It is Labour Party policy to achieve a united Ireland by consent and , therefore , it would be foolish to create a further obstacle . |
| 24 | Perhaps more important , given that it is Labour party policy , what impact would that have on the price of electricity for consumers ? |
| 25 | It is encouraging business investments from abroad and private enterprise is beginning to take off . |
| 26 | It is four miles south of Driffield , and skirted by the Driffield–Beverley road . |
| 27 | Police are investigating an incident in which it is alleged leisure assistant Alan Deaton , 19 was assaulted during a roller disco at York 's Barbican Centre . |
| 28 | Although it has yet to join the DIA , IBM said it is evaluating AlphaWindows technology and is in ‘ active discussions ’ with a UK company — thought to be Microvitec — about a possible OEM deal to be announced by the end of the year . |
| 29 | It is accepted trade practice that staff do not use the bar facilities of the hotel at which they work . |
| 30 | Darlington Tory MP and Schools Minister Michael Fallon , said : ‘ It is ironic Durham County Council can find the money for a new nursery a few weeks before the general election . |