Example sentences of "it is [adj] [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is certainly not a very edifying tale , but it is small fry compared with the massacre in Romania last weekend at Timisoara , and the further shootings reported to have taken place in Bucharest yesterday . |
| 2 | Sentencing had been adjourned from an earlier date during which time it is alleged Marriner committed other offences . |
| 3 | If the child gives a written statement to the social worker , the statement itself is first-hand hearsay as it is one stage removed from the child who could give direct evidence of the abuse . |
| 4 | But it is pure silk encrusted with sequins and it did give Yul Brynner a regal air when he wore it in The King And I in 1956 . |
| 5 | It aims to reform psychological theory , until it is more gender balanced . |
| 6 | It is this contribution foregone which is described as the internal opportunity cost . |
| 7 | It is important to realise that it is these eggs deposited in the first half of the grazing season from April to June , which give rise to the potentially dangerous populations of L3 from July to October . |
| 8 | Their significance is not only in terms of the group experience but also in terms of the wider society , for it is these ideas born out of the street-corner groups , doing nothing , that are to a large extent the ‘ juvenile delinquency ’ of the police and criminologists . |
| 9 | For most of this century it is those disorders gathered together under the heading of ‘ schizophrenia ’ that have been used as the paradigm for trying to describe and understand psychosis . |